If only 1 out of 400 players (16 teams) dropped and that single spot was given away by nepotism rather than allowing the single impacted team to go with 24 players than I agree that the choice is unfair B.S. However, there were many alternates at the event. On my boys' team several players were not from the original chosen roster. Not all of those players attended our tryout, but all had attended a tryout.
This is the biggest line of justifying B.S. in the history of B.S. If , in the last days before the event 1 player dropped out, and no alternate could be found, the team could have easily went to MD. with 24 as apposed to 25. The kid was put on the roster because of who his father is and politics.
