If anyone is interested in what's going on nationally at 2028, Mad Dog hosted a tourney out in Santa Barbara this weekend. Texas Nationals won it all. They lost to Kings CO on Saturday 7-6 but turned around and beat them 8-3 on Sunday in the semifinals. Field was Texas Nationals, Kings CO, Mad Dog West Elite, True Illinois Premier, ADVNC, and some team called Mountain West All-Stars that made it to the championship game after beating Mad Dog West Elite in the semifinals.
Did any of these teams play back east this fall?
I'm sure most of them will be at Sandstorm in Palm Springs in January? Any local MD/DC teams going out to Sandstorm?
All of these teams played back East in one or more events— Naptown, NAL, NLF, etc. ADVNC not very good. Mad Dog West pretty good but not up there w the top east teams like Venom, Madlax, Hawks, etc. (Madlax haters are about to chirp, but Madlax has beaten MDWE all 4-5x they’ve played them in Vail, NAL, etc.). Kings are exceptional at 2027, but haven’t been on the 2028 scene back East as far as I know. Tx Nationals is a super team of kids from 3-4 clubs (Sentry, 3D TX, Iron Horse) who can’t compete as those, but come like a WCS team and are legit.
Definitely a ton of talent coming from out west, but they need to create super teams from like 10 states to compete with the best team from a town in the East like Annapolis, Garden City, Towson, Bethesda, etc.
Incorrect about TX Nationals.
Garden City?
Yeah, there’s more talent on the town of Garden City than all of TX
Facts. In addition, all the Garden City kids are on age.
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