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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arguing about a 4th tiered tourney lol. [/quote]

The tournament is a distraction. This is just one small example of who Pipeline is. Buyer beware. [/quote]

Well except I don't see that they did anything wrong.  It appears they stepped in, probably at the tournament's request, to cover a late cancellation.  They pulled togthere a team of mostly 2010 kids to play in a 2009 tournament and added a few of their own 2009 kids.  They misjudged the strength of the tournament and won their group games too easily and then withdrew to ensure that they didn't win the final.

Doesn't sound too bad to me.  And no - I am in no way affiliated with Pipeline.  Personally I'm not excited about the way they develop kids - I don't think they do a great job - but that's a whole different discussion.  I've also observed poor behavior by a pipeline coach on one occasion out of the three or four times my DS' team has scrimmaged them. But it's hard to see that they did anything terribly wrong here.

Most of the accusations appear to be that they have a number of players who usually "play up" a year and that sometimes in tournaments they play those players back down a year which makes their teams stronger.  It's probably not the way I would do things were I running a club - but it appears they don't make any secret of it - and I can't see anything unethical about it.

Some parents of other clubs no doubt don't like it when their kids get beaten by strong teams who are playing multiple players who usually play a year up and are dominant when playing in their own age group.  But any parent with a kid who has played on a strong team knows that you sometimes encounter parents on opposing teams who get angry and claim that something or other is unfair.[/quote]

Can you share what kind of behavior and the age group for the boys you observed this?[/quote]

Dp, but literally read the thread.  It was girls, 2009 bracket.[/quote]

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