The problem is the tournament is set up differently than most teams, and differently each year they have held the tournament. I'm not supporting grade or age based, but you cannot say a team didn't show up because they can't compete due to the age cutoff when the rule was changed after teams were structured. They just chose not to create a special team just for one tournament and leave behind 3 or 4 kids that would have been able to go all previous years of the WSYL. If your team met the new cutoff anyway or your organization decided to create a special team, great. But don't knock a team that was set before the rule changed and chose not to redo their team after tryouts. Age based is fine but if they are going to change the rule again, like they have every year, they need to do it now, not 2 months from now.