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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=FPYCparent]Am I correctly seeing some Blue Ridge teams accepted to next weekend's CHRVA Bid Regionals?  That's new (for this iiyear, at least).

Metro 18s may have earned an Open bid today by making Gold bracket at NEQ.  If confirmed, their National division bid will flow to VAJRS 18s, and so on.  Other CHRVA teams are in Gold at NEQ and MEQ, but I don't know if anyone else has locked in a bid.[/quote]
Metro 18s did get their open bid They made gold bracket and 5 of the 8 teams in gold already have an open bid, so the remaining 3 teams (which includes 18’Travel) earned bids.

Metro 17 Travel beat Paramount 17s for the second week in a row on Saturday. It was a really tight 3-set match. Paramount 17s seem to be struggling with injuries, with some players clearly playing at less than 100%. [/quote]

Rooting for all the Paramount teams to qualify for the Open bids.  [/quote]
Unfortunate that CHRVA bid regionals and NEQ for 15 and 16 open overlap next weekend. It makes total sense for teams to go to regionals which is their best chance to secure some level of bid, but for Paramount who is working for an open bid, it forces them to miss a qualifier which is historically slightly easier than some of the larger qualifiers to get a bid.[/quote]

I saw this and think CHRVA's scheduling is odd for the bid regionals. Aren't the schedules for the big open qualifiers out early enough to work around these? You would think they would want to avoid overlap with any qualifier, and this is preventable. I hope the CHRVA board is actively working on this for future years.[/quote]

Yes, the qualifiers notify all the Regions (especially those that are closest to them) well in advance. This is yet another example of the pure incompetence of the CHRVA Region. The Region should be making decisions that are in the best financial interest of its constituents. NEQ is the closest qualifier to the CHRVA Region, so by putting their Regional tournament on the same weekend as 15s/16s, they are now putting most 15s and 16s teams in the CHRVA Region in a position where they will have to attend an additional qualifer that will require a flight and more extensive travel costs.
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Let’s look at the facts.

CHRVA Regionals have been held around the same time every year:

2026: March 21
2025: March 22
2024: March 23
2023: March 25
2022: March 26
2021: March 20

So this is not some new or unpredictable CHRVA date.

Now look at NEQ:

[b]2026[/b]
March 13-15
March 20-22
March 27-29
April 3-5

[b]2025[/b]
March 14-16
April 11-13
April 18-20
April 18-20 (Gaylord)

[b]2024[/b]
March 8-10
March 29-31
April 26-28

[b]2023[/b]
March 3-5
April 1-3
April 7-9
April 14-16

[b]2022[/b]
March 11-13
April 16-18
April 22-24

[b]2021[/b]
March 27-29
April 2-4
April 9-11
April 30-May 2

Before this year, CHRVA Regionals and NEQ did not conflict. The issue this year is specifically that NEQ Weekend 2 falls on the same weekend as CHRVA Regionals. In prior years, that was not the case.

Also, for 15s, only 15 Open is affected by that overlap, so at most that impacts three teams. The other 15s divisions are on Weekend 4, April 3-5, and that is where the bulk of CHRVA 15s teams will be playing.

So if people want to criticize this year’s scheduling conflict, that is fair. But it is not accurate to act like CHRVA suddenly moved Regionals to some unusual spot on the calendar. The Regionals dates have been pretty consistent. The real difference this year is where NEQ Weekend 2 landed.[/quote]

Nobody said CHRVA moved bid regionals this year. They are saying CHRVA **should have** moved bid regionals. Instead of locking in on the same weekendevery year, they should look out for CHRVA clubs and plan around the qualifiers, especially the closer ones our CHRVA clubs are more likely to attend. 
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There really isn't much movement possibility for CHRVA regionals given a number of conflicting issues:

1) National qualifiers running through all of March, including Sunshine, Boston, MEQ and NEQ.
2) Spring breaks for schools (generally 3rd week of March through 1st week of April)
3) Facility availability (St. James has two large tournaments + other sport tournaments all through February and March, Adventist has basketball tournaments, etc). MD Jrs can only host 2 or 3 age groups at a time, which would require splitting the weekends for bids if it was all hosted there.
4) Overlapping established tournaments both in region and adjacent regions

And most importantly, 5) NEQ now runs over four weekends (2nd weekend in March to 1st weekend in April) and every weekend has at least age group that overlaps with U11-U17 CHRVA teams.

If CHRVA moves bids earlier in March, then they will directly conflict with Sunshine, Boston and MEQ qualifiers. Lots of teams attend those.  Moving bids even earlier into February creates issues with accurately determining who should even be in the bid tournament because most teams only have 2-4 tournaments completed at that point. The last option is to move bids later in April, which puts them near the end of the regular club season and makes it very difficult for teams and clubs to plan (and to get hotel rooms at nationals, FYI).

TLDR: Its easy to say "CHRVA should do better" but the reality is there really isn't a solution at this point. NEQ never overlapped in the past because it ran on fewer weekends.  Its so big now that it has to run across four weekends and in multiple locations. At least one age group--and probably several--will always have to choose between attending CHRVA bids and going to NEQs unless multiple changes are made to NEQ, other tournament schedules, facility availability, etc.[/quote]

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