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It seems that most successful competitive clubs that field more than one team per age group go A-B-C, at least by U-12. Sometimes the name is overtly obvious (Premier-Challenge-Classic) and sometimes a more covert approach is taken (Gold-Blue-White).




Agreed, Hurst. The earlier statement, though, was that idea was to consolidate the "competitive" sector and leave the other clubs to handle rec and classic. (Some, of course, would take issue with classic being left out of the "competitive" list, but as Bear points out, it all depends on what kind of competition you're talking about.) So...if they're only dealing with the high-level competition, that seems to do away with the A-B-C format...

Just wondering how a consolidated club would handle it if there were too many available challenge-level players to put on one team, and there were no other challenge-level teams in the area as options. Do we knock the overflow players back down to classic, move the displaced classic players down to rec, etc.? Or would we consider fielding two teams in the same bracket?

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