Will DCE play in Elite in the spring? They didn’t look great at Pinnacle last weekend. Wonder how that 27 team shakes out. Looked like a lot of missing pieces.
Assuming Zingos goes down and Team MD goes up, I can’t see them knocking another team down.
Too early to say. In past years it was easy to put DCE into elite, because BLC was already there, so it was a 1 for 1 swap. But in the 2027 class, BLC was in AAA, so making room for DCE in elite would require HoCo to knock down two teams. Based on Pinnacle, DCE is nowhere near ready for elite, but half of the legacy BLC players were missing, and there is no way to predict what new players will arrive for tryouts. DCE has a history of drawing players from as far north as Baltimore and south as Richmond, plus all the DC teams. They always have excellent coaching. If they get the missing pieces and beat some elite level teams in the fall, then I expect that the Express brand carries enough weight that HoCo would find a way to make room, or at least have a four team play-in tournament as they did for the 2026 class last spring. Two teams in the 2027 elite division (Hawks and NextLevel) have pulled way ahead of the pack, and the other six are pretty ordinary, so if DCE gets it together, it would not be hard to find two candidates who are worthy of moving down into AAA.
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