Got an axe to grind with the National Draw pool play. Every year they do this and it really starting to [lacrosse] me off. Each pool is very talent orientated. For example, an age group consists of 7 pools of teams with 5 teams in each pool. The bottom pool on the website is the best and contains all the best teams. Many of these pools contain the top 5 teams at the tournament, TG blk, YJ blue, SW blue, M&D blk, etc..... So what happens is only one of the five best teams in the tournament advance out of the pool play. You have very weak teams advancing out of weak pools into the playoffs. They should place the top teams atop each pool so the better teams can play in elimination games. Funny part of it is when the lower teams run their pool and make a playoff appearance, some parents think these teams are stronger than the top pool teams that may not make out of their top 5 team pool. And anyone crying CR schedule conspiracy, take a look at the schedules, they are in the same boat trying to advance out of a killer pool of top teams. No conspiracy there.
Not true in the 2018 bracket ... M&D Black and TG Black fight it out but YJ nowhere to be found in that pool And what is funny is that you care what "some parents think". What does that matter to you? Living through your kid much?
The tournament organizers don't seem to know the difference between a show case and a championship format event - can you imagine the ncaa basketball tournament having four number one seeds in the same bracket?
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