CRL League Play

MWN said:
Let me add, the goal is to get to Frisco Texas at the National Championship.
  1. Teams in the USYS National League Conference - Top 4 go straight to National Championship (U.S. Youth Soccer qualifiers). The others that didn't punch their ticket go play in their State's National Cup.
  2. Teams in National League - Regional Conferences (13) - Winner of age group goes to Regional Championship (Hawaii), with winner going to National Championship. For CalSouth, CRL is no longer. Its now National League - Pacific Conference powered by CRL (some marketing guy can't let the CRL name go).
  3. All other teams go play in State ran National Cup, winner goes to Regionals.
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Is it true that if you play in CRL and do a STATE/NATIONAL CUP and you win the cup the team automatically forfeits going to regionals?
 
Phineas&Ferb said:
Is it true that if you play in CRL and do a STATE/NATIONAL CUP and you win the cup the team automatically forfeits going to regionals?
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Not true. If the CRL winner and the national cup winner are not the same team, both of them go to regionals. If the same team wins both it opens up another spot and they choose another team.
 
DefndrDad said:
Not true. If the CRL winner and the national cup winner are not the same team, both of them go to regionals. If the same team wins both it opens up another spot and they choose another team.
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This almost happened in G03 this year. If IE surf had won national cup. They lost in the semi‘s and the Hawks won the cup. So IE Surf, hawks, and a third Cal South team (beach) got a wild card and all went to regionals. Where incidentally 2/3 knocked each other out.
 
MWN said:
US Youth Soccer has taken control as of this year of the National Championship series and National League by doing a reorganization. There are now 13 "Conferences" and technically CRL is no more. Its now called National League - Pacific Conference (powered by CRL). The Pacific Conference is now basically just Cal South, with Cal North teams migrating to US Club soccer from US Youth Soccer. The top teams in the Conference will earn advancement to the US Youth Soccer Regional Championships and a chance to earn a spot in the National Tier of the Leagues Program, the US Youth Soccer National League.

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One of the reasons you will see some weaker teams admitted is economics. Cal South pays the way for the top teams to go to Regionals (bypassing the National Cup qualifier). We need a critical mass of teams and with the Cal North teams not really participating we get a few more weaker teams in the brackets.

That said, with almost every league there are a few dominate teams that whip the other teams by margins of 4,5,8, etc. The DA has this, ECNL has this and virtually every other league has this.
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Just to be clear they DO NOT pay for the entire expense. They give some money and the teams have to come up with the balance.
 
DefndrDad said:
This almost happened in G03 this year. If IE surf had won national cup. They lost in the semi‘s and the Hawks won the cup. So IE Surf, hawks, and a third Cal South team (beach) got a wild card and all went to regionals. Where incidentally 2/3 knocked each other out.
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Similar to one the boys age group:

CRL winner made quarters but all sudden blown out by surprise team who was then blown out by the eventual winner.

CRL team had several no shows for quarters some of the parent where actually very pleased they didn't have to travel yet again for another weekend since they would be spending big and attending regionals regardless.
 
Rev234 said:
Just to be clear they DO NOT pay for the entire expense. They give some money and the teams have to come up with the balance.
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That is true. The amount paid does not cover all expenses and definitely doesn't cover the families. Depending on where the regional tournament is located (i.e. not Hawaii), teams have the discretion to make their dollars go farther by using airplanes, trains, buses, or cars and staying in the budget hotels, etc. A few years ago, the team from Palm Desert skipped flying to Utah, they did a little go fund me style fundraising and they all drove in personal cars.
 
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