>> [CSC Girls Rock] One year ago how many teams did St Giles and GFC send to the regionals in Austin? The best I remember, from being there, I only saw one team that was not from St Giles or GFC. If that is not correct please please correct my error.<<
I believe the answer is 5 of 10. MPSC Legend [U14G], SSC Sporting [U14B], Aiken Fire [U17B], CSC Force [U15G], and CGSA Fusion [U17G] all won the challenge cup in their age/gender groups for that period.
I did an analysis 18 months ago [or so] that showed GFC and SGU combined over the last few years got approximately 51% of first and second places [2 points for first, 1 point for second] -- so this seems to reflect the trend from 1999 to through May 2004.
>>If that is true then would you not think that after merging these two clubs that they should continue to place at least as many if not more teams in the regional tournament???? If they had won only 8 of the 10 would that have made it a bad year and the merger not working as it is expected????<<
No, it would not have meant that, in my opinion.
>>What happened in the younger age groups, where is the CESA domination there? or does that not really matter???<<
As I've repeatedly said, I think that the term "domination" is inappropriate regardless of whether you're speaking of December or May challenge cup results. There were many, many, many very tough and well-fought games by lots of teams.