Anyone have thoughts on this:

uslacrosse.org/blog/us-lacrosse-pilots-youth-club-rankings-system
uslacrosse.org/blog/us-lacrosse-clarifies-selection-criteria-for-2018-nationals

What I don't understand is how does any team play in one of these tournaments unless they have converted from grade based to age based? NXT themselves is only going age based at their youngest level.

https://nxtlacrosse.com/blog/entry/...-to-adopt-us-lacrosse-age-segmentation-p

If my sons club has not adopted the age segmentation at any level, can we not participate in these tournaments? If we can, then I don't see how it changes anything other than driving more teams to these US Lacrosse compliant tournaments so that teams can be ranked and participate in the US Lacrosse Nationals (which appear to follow a U based format which then could preclude kids on qualifying teams?

To add, I support the age segmentation, I just don't see the path here.