By the way, The Circuit also has a hard upper limit of 1/1 2008 so the 3 exceptions have to be born in 2008. The Circuit had a real problem. They had clubs who didn't want any upper limit at all and a bunch who wanted to reign it in because even their summer birthday rosters couldn't compete against early 2008 and 2007 birthdays. Some of the teams were a little deeper so they were able to bump players up from lower classes. Some had such a history of playing with older players and mercenaries that they fell away or did very poorly at the first tournament because those teams couldn't stack the roster. This is what they did to put on the events this year. Who knows if they will make it to year 2. .
With this system it just seems like a money grab. The teams with the oldest kids will dominate.
Originally Posted by Anonymous
The WSL model has struggled over the years and is now essentially a NE tournament. Many clubs from around the country just don't want to change their model to participate. The guys putting on WSL did a great job in getting it back up.
Yea they did. Kudos to them for sticking to on age/100 mile radius. Lots of 5th/6th grade kids are going to have to play this summer.
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