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The reference is being made to that one individual who tried to make it a point that Express had a very successful weekend including losing to Eclipse by a closer margin than any other team. That makes no sense. Recon could’ve lost by 30 instead of 13 if Eclipse wanted to. They played all their players and held back production against some teams including an injured 91 team.

Still confused why did these two teams not play in the qualifier like every other team?

They did have a good weekend so you are barking up the wrong tree.

You must be a blast to have a beer with. Wow you are slow.

Express is ok lets not make them better than they are on this board.. sure they did fine in the Qualifier one weekend doesn't make a good team they have a long way to go. 91 was injured against eclipse? is that what the excuse is? Was the Igloo game too physical for them or did they have injuries coming into the weekend? It is amazing the stuff can come up with when they are looking for excuses

The X attackman did not play at all on sunday due to injury. He’s their best regular player (not an add just for this tournament). Don’t think that closes a 6 goal gap though.

How many World Series teams that were formed for just this WS year will actually play together in regular tournaments this season

3

And which three players would those be?

Moe, Larry and Curly!

I am going to protest that qualifier games are not included in the rankings.

Doesn’t make sense as they are not true 29 teams that play all year round together so what’s the protest about

isn't the qualifier and the world series the only tourneys with "true" 2029 teams?

Nope. Mix of 28 adn 29’s

It’s the only age verified one.

No one cares but you do you, buddy.

I’m missing the point here. What rankings and why do these rankings matter?

Where 91 Chaos at Blatant Spring Jam this weekend ? Looks like 91 has all of their A&B teams in all the other brackets, but not for 2029

Why, is it a mandatory tournament or something?

Have fun getting blown out by the cheating Nationals LC.

Maybe I’m wrong but didn’t Nationals come up here last Spring and beat up every team in this tournament. But when they faced Chaos back then known as Pride, they lost twice to them. Making it 3 loses to that team in 2 years. I don’t recall any other Ll teams beating them (Nationals).

It’s a World Series year 91 is super selective in who they play in World Series years and normally selective entering tournaments unless they know they are the clear cut favorites to win it. Too many good teams in this tournament to enter.

They didn’t play the Blatant Spring Jam last year either.

And the rest of that is just ridiculous.

They are playing the World Series where Eclipse is the clear frontrunner.

NLF Opener: Hawks or Laxachusetts Black will be the favorites.
Tristar: Eclipse will be the favorites.
NLF Championship: Eclipse, West Coast Starz, Laxachusetts Black, or maybe last years champs, Resolute?

They are not playing any gimme tournaments.

Rebels gonna break their own tournament rules and show up with their 28’s tomorrow?

https://www.blatantevents.com/23-24-event-rules


This is a grade tournament, not an age eligible play below the grade tournament like the World Series.

Lonely people who spend their Friday Nights pouring over old .PDFs. These are the age eligibility rules for youth lacrosse:

https://www.usalacrosse.com/age-eligibility-guidelines

The rules are right on tourneymachine app for Blatant Spring Jam. Clearly says what is posted above about grade. Sure you have to meet the age requirements, but also the grade requirement. So must be 2029, born June 1 2010 or later. Have to meet both requirements, not just one. World Series is age requirement only, no grade requirement. If there was no grade requirement it is U13 not 2029 lacrosse, which is exactly why WorldnSeries shows as U13

What is your take here? There are kids held back older than on-age 8th graders. They all play mixed grade middle school lacrosse. Does winning a T shirt mean that much to you?

Nationals LC looked average at best today and hearing they have a known 2027 on the roster. Eclipse WS team is WAY better.

The Fusion Futures that showed up at the World Series qualifier were basically Nationals LC without their 14-15 year olds. Looked very pedestrian. The whole Nationals LC/Fusion Futures nonsense is a complete joke. Hope they enjoy those middle school rankings because stuff is going to even out in another year or so for those kids who can't cut it playing with kids their age.

Eclipse has players from Florida. In youth lax if you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying. Sad.

Who’s the known 2027?

This season should be a good one. Any of the better teams can win or lose on any day. Not much separates the top teams.

You don’t know what you are talking about. Futures has 4 kids that play on Nationals. Yes, others did play on Nationals, but no longer do. With the exception of the World Series roster (since they use different birthdates, 100 Mile rule), these are all local kids that weren’t happy on their old clubs and wanted to play together.

No coincedence that the two teams are run by brothers? They both play the dial-a-ringer game for whichever tournament they are dropping a team into.

https://www.hudl.com (link to NC kid who plays on 2027 and 2029 nationals team)

Legacy East broke these rules too. Problem is - every team at some point or another, breaks the rules and no one does anything about it.

In full disclosure on Hudl the kid is listed as a
2027, I have no clue if he was playing for them this weekend

Kids names can not be listed on this forum

That’s the brother of a kid who used to be on the team. He’s not even on the roster anymore.

guys it is 10:30 on a monday. How sad are your lives that you must be on here. REALITY CHECK MAN?? come on do better.

everyone just needs to accept the fact until they check kids at the tournaments , roster games will be played... its not a uniform process so gotta move on from it or move on from lax. Is it right? no but unfortunately everyone does it. Looking at some of the kids on that team at the tourney I'm sure not all were "on age" could they be 29's ..I guess. But then again it's a national team so maybe they are. Either way I agree with one of the previous poster's not very impressive..solid team but I could agree with Eclipse WS is prob better. I think at the end of the season you'll know what teams are legit and what teams are not by the tourney's they play in and how those tourney's choose their age verification process.

Bologney. They're not all local Philly kids on Futures, fact. And they abuse the the lack of age requirements as much, if not more than Nationals. And they had 8 kids ineligible for World Series due to age and location. And they looked quite pedestrian when required to play by, what most people would consider, normal rules. They're a good squad, just like Nationals, but let's not pretend that neither team isn't taking advantage of a broken system, just like Red Hots and most of the Maryland teams.