It has been said numerous times that tournaments do change seedings to give teams opportunities to play other teams. But this is not a one and done tournament that is meant for practice in theory. This is the finale with advancement potential to get the boys seen for the last time. And there is a lot more going on here than just reseeding.I did a google search on wild card seeding changes. I found that other tournaments do change wild card seeds. Again this is not calsouth rules but it could be common practice.
Celtic tournament " In a division with ten (10) or twelve (12) team's, if the Wild Card and the 1st seed are from the same pool, then the play-offs will be seeded 1st vs 3rd, 2nd vs Wild Card. In divisions of ten (10) teams), if the 2nd and 3rd seeds played each other in pool play, then the play-offs will be seeded 1st vs 3rd, 2nd vs Wild. If the 2nd seed played both the 3rd seed and the Wild Card in pool play, then the play-offs will be seeded 1st vs Wild Card, 2nd vs 3rd. "
For all those that don’t know about the Aneheim Surf overaged player in State Cup last year, look at the Girls 06 Forum, Page 3. The thread is titled “what’s going on with Cal South and State Cup Semi’s. Sorry my cut and paste is not working right.
Basically Aneheim Surf has an 05 player playing on their 06 girls team. Despite the girl's last coach informing Surf of her age they continued to play her. Finally getting caught during State Cup the entire team was disqualified and then for some reason reinstated but the girl in question did not play. Anaheim Surf went on to win State Cup. But if even 1 overaged player is used the entire team is supposed to be disqualified. No one is willing to explain why the team was reinstated but not the girl if everything was legit.
Now that same coach is in trouble for something much worse but I won’t go into that here for fear that this thread will be deleted.