diamondcoach
SILVER
Any thoughts or surprises? Noted Slammers HBK teams are 16-0-2 through pool play. Unfortunately, those two ties were both from the ‘09s, which knocked them out. U19s in the final.
They know what they are doing when they make the group pools for National playoffs. Sorry but they try to get SW teams out.the brackets for Virginia are set up prior to the pool play and round of 16. There isn't a re-seeding or re-draw. If 3-4 teams from SoCal make it to Nationals, and there are only 8 teams total, there are going to be some SoCal vs SoCal games early on. Stinks for sure ("we coulda just gone to Norco"), but it's not an anti-west coast thing. In fact, SoCal gets more teams into pool play than any other conference, so folks could argue the opposite
If one of the Socal teams wins it all. Socal teams will remain at the top of the rankings. If a team from somewhere else wins it all by beating a Socal club then they'll rocket to the top of the rankings. But not because they beat all the Socal teams, its because all the Socal teams canceled each other out. In this situation beating one Socal team is like beating 3-4 of them.They know what they are doing when they make the group pools for National playoffs. Sorry but they try to get SW teams out.