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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saw social media posts that the Mojo travel open-level 1s teams and Legacy VB open-level 1s teams were playing and winning medals at the MD Jrs *regional* tourney last weekend. I’m confused - Shouldn’t both those teams be playing against other open level 1s teams? Like the Metro Travel and Paramount 1s teams? Instead they were bragging about placing over the Paramount 2s team and Metro regional teams. Just wondering what the protocol was there. FWIW, we heard those 2s and regional teams almost beat them in single digit sets. Just wondering what the strategy for that was. [/quote]
Clubs choose which division they register for when signing up for tournaments and for the most part, tournament directors do not do any evaluation to see if a team is registered in the most appropriate division. For local tournaments, (particularly early in the season) it's not at all unusual to see regional, club level teams having to play a Metro Travel or Paramount team if they registered to play in an open division. As others have noted, there is a minimum number of CHRVA tournaments that a team must play in to qualify for bid regionals (and at least one of those tournaments has to be in a open division), so the stronger teams will enter these tournaments to make sure they are eligible for bid regionals. Teams from other clubs also might be trying to get into bid regionals - in the past few years CHRVA has ended up giving out 6+ bids after bid regionals once the reallocation process starts, so teams that don't finish that high at bid regionals can end with a bid.

Metro Travel and Paramount want to hold open the option of going to bid regionals in case they don't get an open bid from a qualifier. The division immediately below open at the USAV National Championships is the National Division and that is given to the top team from bid regionals (and sometimes 2nd place will get a reallocated National bid). [/quote]

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