They’re going to play above average competition week in and week out regardless. It’s a joke on both sides. ECNL and DPL teams traveling to beat teams 5-0. We’d all much rather be playing the same local top 10 teams over and over as opposed to spending the money traveling to embarrass some other states number 1 glorified AYSO team. For the bottom teams in dpl and ECNL i’m Sure it’s worth it. For the rest of us, it’s BS. Legends not playing Blues, Galaxy not playing Slammers. It’s an injustice to these kids and our wallets. Take the real top 5 teams and just let them play each other all year. Save me a couple grand in traveling expenses. Congrats to Beach SB on the win but don’t try and pretend like Beach Perez is missing out on player development. All the OP meant was they would rather save the money than travel to play a sub par team. But you knew that. Over here trying to spread your cup half full Nonsense.