>>[Soccer For Fun] Bridge/CESA having an entire team play up (U12 to U13) for their reasons (I'm not saying if its good or bad) and SCYSA allowing the registration vs the Guide (Case by Case basis).<<

With regard to "their reasons", I would tend to believe that those reasons would be the perceived best interest of those players. Unless a new rule is written [e.g., 50% of players on a team must be in the maximum age bracket] it seems it's going to be a club discretionary thing. Probably helps smaller clubs more than larger clubs in any case.

The negative that I can see is if these teams playing up a year were clearly uncompetitive in their higher age brackets -- but you'd think that would be self-correctly after a season.