Why would anyone care - this was a grade based tourney last year w an age restriction. The WSYL changed the rules midway - extended the age range and dropped the grade requirement. Some team were already set. Others brought their 2021 teams - as was originally the rules during tryouts.
The only thing this effects is the credibility of WSYL. They should have waited a year. Or maybe they needed to change the rules midway because the turn out would have been poor.
Actually the age requirement is exactly the same as it was last year. The thing that changed was last year it was 2020 teams. This year there is no graduation year attached so teams have been created just for this event. Which, in my opinion, will be the downfall of this. It is now nothing like the LLWS, which is an amazing long-running event!
That's actually an interesting concept. The LLWS is a town & age based 12U tournament. (Although in recent years the age cut-off has changed, making it almost 13U. And of course there are always programs that try to game the age and residency rules) Not sure if a Town based tourney could ever work in lacrosse, but the with early WSYL qualifiers it 'forces' summer clubs to put together a spring team with a few practices. (Of course this doesn't affect the so-called 360 teams)
