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Good luck to all teams playing in the WSYL in Denver.

This tournament field was questionable at best with no top rated teams from the region. No Madlax team in a Madlax tournament? The fields are really in the middle of a farm with nothing close by. I wonder why any team would travel to play in this event??

The event was well attended with many very good teams

Name one "very good" team in the 2023 division at this event?

Ok I"ll bite. Which team was very good - G , Hooville, API Diamondbacks, FCA Maryland White.

TB dad you are making your self look like a fool. You must be one of the dads on the team that everyone can’t stand. TB will never rise to the level of a top team. If you need to come on here and make sure everyone knows your kid played and won it means no relevant teams were at the tournament.

True Blue!!!!!!!!

If you were not there how can you say these teams were not good.

True Blue is forming a True Blue North Shore team to go along with there TB "A" and TB B teams that they already have.

I thought it was just a north shore tryout But if true, 3 teams is crazy unless you have committed coaches. Most teams don’t.

Express vs Bandits on course to play at 6pm tomorrow on ESPN. Express has 2 of the top 3 scorers in the tourney.

It’s only at ages 2021, 2024 and 2028. They all have coaches and a significant amount of locust valley players.

Three of the top 6.

Too bad express and bandits had to travel to Denver, spend a bunch of cash only to play each other. I’m sure evolve and next level will have something to say about that first.

Express and bandits rolling in Denver.

Yes but its TB North Shore and there gonna add more age groups, there thinking is North Shore kids don't want to travel to south shore for practice, that's why there emphasizing "all practices will be on beautiful north shore fields"

Yup - such a shame. All of the participants must have had a miserable time. Staying on the island would have been the same experience.

Why? Despite the naysayers. It is a world class run event. And kids get chance to play in front of millions of people on ESPN. Make no mistake this event is here to stay and has become the priority for clubs to attend. Plus the competition doesn't seem so one sided, it won't be long before another region makes the final. I am a little surprised Maryland and NE haven't sent a team yet. That said, tell me who plays club lax won't be watching or DVRer the final? Is it a lot of money to go, yes, but teams have a year to fund raise. But everyone that goes loves it.

Top scorer is a great player but a 2022 on channys teamof course makes the age cut off tho. I get teams of other areas doing this but Long Island teams shouldn’t have to kids who are on this team all year take the back seat. It’s frustrating

What happened to Igloo at WSYL??

Next Level pulls off the upset and takes down Express. Refs call a onesided game so WSYL lives another year and doesn't turn into a Long Island event in Denver.

Yes but its TB North Shore and there gonna add more age groups, there thinking is North Shore kids don't want to travel to south shore for practice, that's why there emphasizing "all practices will be on beautiful north shore


Does anyone know who the coaches will be?

I guess Next Level & Evolve didn't have much to say.

They stink

Igloo who?

Crabs went to the finals of the first WSYL, as they started to enforce age based teams some teams like Crabs couldn’t qualify. Last year’s final was Chan v Prime Time a non-LI team...granted Express kicked their butt they did get to the finals! The question is, will teams continue to fly to Denver spend thousands of dollars knowing they have no chance? Look at the disparity in the scores....it’s a lot of money to spend, I think it will get harder and harder to justify when you could easily spend it on a family vacation to Wallyworld!

Hey if you have that kind of coin to spend so be it, but if not, once all the emotion and hype settles it's extremely difficult justifying spending that amount of money on youth lacrosse. Which lends me to believe the organizations are the ones benefiting from this event...

Seems like a real waste of time and money to fly to Colorado to play in an averarge to below average tournament, which is really what is if you take away the big name. Marketing is very transparent. This is definitely not a representation of the best teams. But a BIG waste of time and money!

Don't worry we will be in Delaware in a couple of weeks playing better competition for less then half the price!

Do you see the Express dad actually wearing the team jersey in the team jersey in the stands? What a hammerhead.

NLF will be at Lehigh with ESPN there and a couple
Of weeks. The writing is on the wall for the wsyl.
Teams will have their regular players there and the competition will exceed Denver.

Wow, some real low level trolls here. Let me get this straight, igloo loses once and they stink? An express dad wears his sons team colors and you criticize? I guess S2S going 3-3 makes them irrelevant too?

I have no son on one of these teams. I've just met and know a bunch of kids and families on these teams from our time at tournaments. Anyone here who's kids play on Long Island does. Can't we celebrate them? Feel good about them having an amazing showing in a national tournament? Even if we chose a team for our son that didn't go? I felt happy for every kid I recognized. Good for them and I'm so happy their families got to experience it. But then again, I'm part of the rational, mature majority.

Keep trolling, you show your jealousy.

[quote=Anonymous]NLF will be at Lehigh with ESPN there and a couple
Of weeks. The writing is on the wall for the wsyl.
Teams will have their regular players there and the competition will exceed Denver.
Regular team? I gues you mean You need to see your Holdback 14/15 yrd old Johnny beat up on 13yr oldsHaHaHaHa

Yea, nothing like 15 year old playing against 13 year olds.. If that's what it takes for your son to win, to play against kids a year or 2 younger, whatever you are a loser..

Nothing, they lost in the quarter finals. Nothing to be ashamed of. That's why the games are played.

Here we go again!!!

Parents are so deranged. They now call their cheating year-older kids "regular" players. Hey! "Regular" players are on age. Irregular kids are kids that are a year older kids that play down. That aint "regular". Those are loser kids that can't play with kids their own age.

They stink And so does S 2 S.

OK... OK... OK. We get it. The Bandits claim the on age title... Hawks, Duke's, ACS claim the grade based... Nobody cares. Move on. Next topic.