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.
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.
US Lacrosse will have egg on its face if it does not hold to its age requirements in its National Tournament. Can't preach one thing and do something different especially if you are considered the governing body
Ok, so as an example. NXT puts its 2023 team in a bunch of it's tournaments. They have 4 kids with summer birthdays. They garner enough points to make the national tournament. What happens? They can't play because their birthday isn't after the 9/1 cutoff?
I assume they won't keep those kids from playing in the qualifying tournaments, so how do they exclude them from the national? They already didn't adhere to the age guidelines with the girls side. NXT had Summer birthdays playing. US Lacrosse said they gave NXT 5 passes but didn't tell any of the other clubs those rules.
9/1 is a dumb cutoff for boys. Should be 7/1 or 8/1. Most people with late summer boys held them, why age-based will never work and US Lacrosse will continue to give passes
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