If Team 91 sent their flagship "Roar" team to California, where their tournament competition would have had an average rating (SCHED) score of 86, they would have played against teams ranked as low as 110th place and would have gotten themselves ranked below 10th place for now- and would have dipped even lower in the rankings once the other A teams built up strong SCHED scores in the Spring. So...send a disposable team (composed of mostly the same players) to California, make some money in a tournament you're affiliated with, gather up some cash from some parents you dupe into convincing that "National" means something special, post some brags about annihilating an entire tournament, and do this all without negatively affecting the rating and ranking of your flagship team. Then you can hold onto the hope that the Roar team can recover from being an unranked team through the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Plus, your girls get some experience without the rating repercussions of playing C level teams. We call this a poor attempt at ranking manipulation (and parent manipulation).