Really...You must be out of the Md/Dc/Va club world then. Almost ALL Club teams went grade based this year for what reason???
It had been age based on USL guidelines up until then. The USL guideline matched school registration for the grade. Why the need to change. Main reason was to accommodate CHILDREN under 15 down to 9 who had been held back. If it wasnt prevalent then Crabs, Hawks, Madlax now, etc would not have gone grade base. They used to ALL be age based until HS level teams ????. Frankly at the youth level in many tournaments it was in many tournaments last year . This year youth holdbacks will be in ALL tournaments. No one cares about parents cheating the system with their children????????.