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Didn't the dates change last year? Most likely will again after the club directors get involved.

Age Eligibility: Players must be born on or after 9/1/2003
Advancement: The top 4 teams from each Regional Qualifier will advance to the Championship Series in Denver on July 2-4, 2017

Age Eligibility: Players must be born on or after 9/1/2003
Advancement: The top 4 teams from each Regional Qualifier will advance to the Championship Series in Denver on July 2-4, 2017

Age Eligibility: Players must be born on or after 9/1/2003
Advancement: The top 4 teams from each Regional Qualifier will advance to the Championship Series in Denver on July 2-4, 2017

So true 2021 kids got hosed. Last year was for 2020, next year is 2022.

what a bunch of BS...so this year cutoff was 5/1/02....had it been left at 9/1/02 would have been a much different outcome....now they put it back to 9/1....because one L.I. 2020 team steamrolled through a bunch of 13 yr olds...very unfair to all of the teams that participated this year...a lot of $$$ spent...glad my sons team didnt go

Unfortunately for WSYL and even lacrosse in general, for them to get everything proper to an age based system there will be one particular grade year that will get screwed.

I will bet that this will change, back to the 5/1 cut off. Why? Because there will be lots of clubs that will not participate because they have lots of 2022 team members who are born between 5/1 and 8/31 that won't be able to go. The only state that this benefits is NY. They should do the original 5/1 cutoff, but you have to be 2022 also. That is how it was the first year. Last year (5/1 and class of 2020 or younger), the second year they went to strictly age 5/1 and the grade didn't matter so they kids could have been a very young 2020 or normal 2021.

I will bet that this will change, back to the 5/1 cut off. Why? Because there will be lots of clubs that will not participate because they have lots of 2022 team members who are born between 5/1 and 8/31 that won't be able to go. The only state that this benefits is NY. They should do the original 5/1 cutoff, but you have to be 2022 also. That is how it was the first year. Last year (5/1 and class of 2020 or younger), the second year they went to strictly age 5/1 and the grade didn't matter so they kids could have been a very young 2020 or normal 2021.

They moved the date to May 1 to try and give other team outside Long Island a chance to compete. They knew Long Island has a December 1 school cut off day and the top teams stick to the Sept 1 and 2021 date. However they never expected Long Island teams would drop kids down from 2030 to 2021. The only way anyone will compete with Long Island is drop the date back down to 5/1 and keep the graduating year at 2022. This will allow teams to have a chance against Long Island teams. This past year if the cut off would have been 5/1 and graduating 2021 igloo a Long Island team whose oldest kid was born in November 2002 would have won but at least had competition from a California team who had many born between 5/1 and 9/1 2002 including its best players. It will get boring watching Long Island teams win every year. They have to do something to make it interesting.

They moved the date to May 1 to try and give other team outside Long Island a chance to compete. They knew Long Island has a December 1 school cut off day and the top teams stick to the Sept 1 and 2021 date. However they never expected Long Island teams would drop kids down from 2030 to 2021. The only way anyone will compete with Long Island is drop the date back down to 5/1 and keep the graduating year at 2022. This will allow teams to have a chance against Long Island teams. This past year if the cut off would have been 5/1 and graduating 2021 igloo a Long Island team whose oldest kid was born in November 2002 would have won but at least had competition from a California team who had many born between 5/1 and 9/1 2002 including its best players. It will get boring watching Long Island teams win every year. They have to do something to make it interesting.

How do you police School year? It's got to be birthday and show Birth certificate.

It will get boring watching Long Island teams win every year. They have to do something to make it interesting.

So will everyone admit then that LI has the best lacrosse and the only way other areas can compete is to hold your kids back a couple of years...

That is actually what this person is saying???
This is Hilarious..Why Long island has some top talent..I am sure some other area can make up some super teams and compete..If not..Then LI deserves to be known as best place on Earth of Youth Lacrosse players!.

By DOB, LI has the strongest youth lacrosse players without question.

By DOB LI is by far the best. However, if we hold kids back a year then we are just as good as them.

By DOB LI is by far the best. However, if we hold kids back a year then we are just as good as them.

The only teams that lost in Colorado were the Maryland teams. Additionally, they had some of the oldest players. Look at the DOBs on the website. Blaze and Igloo were the youngest teams there. Where were the Crabs? Their 2021 team was too old even with the 5/1/02 cutoff. Our team had numerous kids born after 5/1/03. No need to make excuses when our team made it to primetime. Fact.

They moved the date to May 1 to try and give other team outside Long Island a chance to compete. They knew Long Island has a December 1 school cut off day and the top teams stick to the Sept 1 and 2021 date. However they never expected Long Island teams would drop kids down from 2030 to 2021. The only way anyone will compete with Long Island is drop the date back down to 5/1 and keep the graduating year at 2022. This will allow teams to have a chance against Long Island teams. This past year if the cut off would have been 5/1 and graduating 2021 igloo a Long Island team whose oldest kid was born in November 2002 would have won but at least had competition from a California team who had many born between 5/1 and 9/1 2002 including its best players. It will get boring watching Long Island teams win every year. They have to do something to make it interesting.

The cut off date is 5/1 because wsyl is copying the little league World Series and that is the date they use. It is simple as that. Little league World Series is going to a 9/1 cutoff for 2018, so wsyl will copy that as well.

WSYL proved that without holdbacks no state or even region can compete with Long Island teams that are made up of kids who live a few miles apart. This is so even when the Long Island teams were much younger. The holdbacks that Long Island teams have to play are sometimes two years older given the 12/1 lLong Island school cut off. So yes when a Long Island team loses to a much bigger team from another state it usually means the other team had kids as much as two years older. Look what happened at this age based event where Long Island had two of the Youngest teams. All three Long Island teams that entered made it to the final four and there was an all Long Island championship. So the other areas do need age help to compete with Long Island teams. That is why they all cheat when they play Long Island teams.

So what will be WSYL date be next year for 2017 ??? May 1 or Sept 1 ??? Website says May 1, but someone here has said they have an email saying Sept 1 ??