That is because they used kids from 2022 and 2021 that tourney has different age restrictions
Don't you mean they had age restrictions? That's a new argument, The kids are the same age, so it's not fair??
Dicks TOC does it differently. We considred going and spoke to them. The qualifier is the year before and their DOB requirement was mid summer not the USL 9/1. To further confuse things they did something funky with the age in that the eligibility was determined to be not based on a traditional 2023 team for this instance but rather accommodated 2022 age kids as well. I forget wthat it was but it was very odd way of handling and when we realized our 2023 team was actually playing against 2022 teams we decided to not go.
It appears this tournament has lost some of its luster and attendance is spotty at best.
i think you referring to the fact that they view as a season ending championship for preceding summer. Ie you qualify by winning or making a final in certain tournements from the past summer. As such u11, u13 etc is based on the age parameters for the 2015-16 season not 2016-17. Therefore if you were a 2022 team last summer you would qualify for u11 at TOC as long as you didn;t have hold backs born before 6/1/04. In other words next year your team will be eligible for u11
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