Originally Posted by Anonymous
Bandits did win it and they are clearly the best 2023 team. However if allowed to bring "down" tournament eligible 2022 players have to imagine some key members were brought down. There is a big difference in development at this age. But let's call this what it was and that is a poorly attended tournament with subpar teams and only 2 good teams in this bracket. They could have met somewhere off 95 and done the same thing


The tournament is U11 which is 2023s for this year, U13 being the 2021's. The only kids allowed as 2022's in a U11 tournament are the ones with summer birthdays 6/1/2004 or younger. In a lot of cases those kids are PreK/ holdbacks and are already on 2023 teams around the country. Any 2022's that played in U11 are the ones that their parents didn't holdback. The playing field is equal, the teams with older holdbacks playing on their 2023 teams can't or don't play.

And of course they could have met off of 95. Did you expect Florida NC and Kentucky teams to be as good as the northeast teams? It was warm and sunny in December, I'm sure they had a great time.