My guess is only Hawks get 2 (26 and 29). 91 wins 25, Madlax wins 27, NL gets 28, and don’t have any kids or friends with kids at 30. Maybe BLC?
But Madlax could easily end up with a lot more if things break well for them in the playoffs.
Can Madlax include their players who play on their Capital teams that live out of state on their roster for HoCo? For instance they have a FL and NC kid on their 2025 Capital Roster.
What is with all the smoke and mirrors in youth lax. Capital team, Regional team National team. When you compete with kids brought from all over the place on a local level it is worse then holdbacks. Show up with what you got.
It's not that big a deal and different sports do it all the time across the country. We planned a vacation last summer and reached out to the local teams to see if he could play while we were there. Several said no problem and happy they could help.
For summer, I think it’s fine to have out of region players since you are playing out of region clubs anyway. But HOCO is more fun if it is about regional and club rivalries for the youth teams. All the kids are 8th grade or younger so there’s no recruiting angle and the rivalries aren’t as fun if teams are bringing in people from Texas or whatever who have little connection to the clubs or area. Without the rivalry games, HOCO is just like any other tournament game.
Clubs exist to make money, not provide a source of fun. Winning draws the best players. Don’t need to develop players (except owner’s son) when you can just poach them. Then they go D1 and club takes credit.
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