Again, at it's heart ODP is a player identification program (with other added values). If you begin to look at it as such, whether or not the SC team can beat the NC team becomes irrelevant. Whether or not a player identified at the state level as one of the top players at that state's evaluations can be identified at the region tryouts/evaluations as having the current tools or potential to be selected to play at that level is relevant.
Some have been waiting a long time for the changes they made at the region camps last year. The state teams played one opening game as state teams and then the players were scrambled for games and training sessions for the rest of the camp. Maybe a state only has a few players with the potential to play at the region level (that's a selection of about 25-35 players from 12 states), and the scrambling allows the region coaches the opportunity to evaluate those few mixed in with players from the other states. Given the example scwame presented, even though everyone from previous years didn't participate the last year, as long as that player goes to the region camp she will be evaluated individually for her potential to participate at the regional level taking her to the next level of evaluations at the national level.
I, personally, thought the training at Region Camp was excellent, but again I look at those sessions not so much as a part of player development but as a part of player evaluation... "we know the kid has the talent but where are the skills? Hmmm, during these sessions we see she also has the intelligence, desire and work ethic to improve dramatically if we can keep her around. She may even have the potential to become a greater prospect for the National Team than that other player over there who has plenty of skills already, but not the desire or work ethic we're looking for at the next level."
