Anonymous wrote:Competitive brackets in our age group

Are you kidding me? These are all low level leagues and teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Refs were a joke.

You mean the 3 you observed while losing all 3 games. The refs try their best, some are better than others. how many games have you refereed?

Assuming identifying a bad ref means you lost is ridiculous. The refs we had for all 4 games were awful. I don't think it impacted the result, but they were just bad. A minimum requirement should be a watch to keep track of the time, constantly checking the phone in your pocket is a bad look.

Oh, you forgot to mention how many games you have refereed without any parents complaining about your look.

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Anonymous wrote:Refs were a joke.

You mean the 3 you observed while losing all 3 games. The refs try their best, some are better than others. how many games have you refereed?

Assuming identifying a bad ref means you lost is ridiculous. The refs we had for all 4 games were awful. I don't think it impacted the result, but they were just bad. A minimum requirement should be a watch to keep track of the time, constantly checking the phone in your pocket is a bad look.

So the referees decisions did not affect the game result but none of them had watches and used clocks on their phones to keep time and you judge that as awful. What are you talking about? Bad look?

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Anonymous wrote:Refs were a joke.

You mean the 3 you observed while losing all 3 games. The refs try their best, some are better than others. how many games have you refereed?

Assuming identifying a bad ref means you lost is ridiculous. The refs we had for all 4 games were awful. I don't think it impacted the result, but they were just bad. A minimum requirement should be a watch to keep track of the time, constantly checking the phone in your pocket is a bad look.

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Anonymous wrote:SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.

Disagree. There is way too much focus on birthdate in this country and not enough on playing kids at the same skill level and physical maturity.
SYC, at the top teams, tends to roster a bunch of physically mature for their age kids. So it seems like a good fit.

So…. Tracking here…. Physical size and strength is an unfair advantage but if your kid has vision/intelligence, that’s okay to use in their age group? Kids develop unevenly but that doesn’t mean you should discount some and not others.

I’ll support biobanding when we are argue for dumb kids to play down for that reason.

The problem is not the players. It's the coaches taking shortcuts and covering up their own lack of knowledge or ability to coach by picking big, fast kids to win with just that. Everyone knows that truly skilled smaller players can compete with and beat bigger players. The problem is few coaches are smart enough to identify these players and then utilize their strengths in a system. So, they take the biggest dogs for the fight and sit back collecting checks.

Anonymous wrote:Refs were a joke.

You mean the 3 you observed while losing all 3 games. The refs try their best, some are better than others. how many games have you refereed?

SYC ain’t all that.

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Anonymous wrote:SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.

Disagree. There is way too much focus on birthdate in this country and not enough on playing kids at the same skill level and physical maturity.
SYC, at the top teams, tends to roster a bunch of physically mature for their age kids. So it seems like a good fit.

So…. Tracking here…. Physical size and strength is an unfair advantage but if your kid has vision/intelligence, that’s okay to use in their age group? Kids develop unevenly but that doesn’t mean you should discount some and not others.

I’ll support biobanding when we are argue for dumb kids to play down for that reason.

Refs were a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.

Disagree. There is way too much focus on birthdate in this country and not enough on playing kids at the same skill level and physical maturity.
SYC, at the top teams, tends to roster a bunch of physically mature for their age kids. So it seems like a good fit.

The SYC team that played up against us was a good match. There was another club also playing up. Not as physical, not as fast, not as big, and that was a bad experience for them and for us. So it totally depends on the team for sure.

Anonymous wrote:SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.

Disagree. There is way too much focus on birthdate in this country and not enough on playing kids at the same skill level and physical maturity.
SYC, at the top teams, tends to roster a bunch of physically mature for their age kids. So it seems like a good fit.

SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.

Anonymous wrote:Played at the revolution fields. Fantastic facilities!

My DS played there too. Facilities were great and had 3 refs at every game. Very competitive matches. Weather was perfect too. I think the older boys play at this site, something for the little ballers to look forward to.

Top bracket u14b ARs and great fields.

Top bracket u12 boys only one ref also, including the final. Ridiculous