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The State's "elite" club, if correct, has one semifinalist and three others went out in the quarters. Not very good considering there's 12 titles up for grabs and 48 semifinal spots. 1 for 48 isn't a elite club in the region, just in a poor state. What's good for South Carolina still isn't good in the big picture.



I'm afraid your "logic" here is a little off. True, there are a total of 48 semi-final spots but any one team can only expect to claim 1 of them, per division. Thus, SC was 1 for 11, as far as semi-finalists go (SC didn't field a u19G team), not 1 for 48.



I feel so stupid for missing this...thanks for bringing it up! There are really some apples and oranges being compared here.

The theory that a club, or even the state, went 1 for 48 is illogical and misleading. CESA sent 7 teams to regionals, Bridge sent 2 teams, DSC sent 1 team, NECSA sent 1 team, and Aiken sent 1 team. SC as a whole went 1 for 12 into semi-finals -- but even that is misleading since our one semi-final appearance was in an age-bracket in which there were no quarterfinals.

More accurately, CESA had 3 of 7 teams successfully exit group play, Bridge had 2 of 2 teams, Aiken had 1 of 1 team, DSC had 0 of 1 team, NECSA had 0 of 1 team. On a percentage basis, Bridge and Aiken did the best of all of the clubs, then CESA, then DSC and NECSA. But there are many ways to break these things down -- and I don't know of any SC club happy with their region performance.

Of the 6 teams successfully exit group play, all fell in their first game out of group play (5 in quarterfinals, 1 in semifinalss since there was no quarterfinals in that group).

I got so hung up on the fact that everyone that I knew in CESA was disappointed and wanted to do better both in getting out of group play and winning quarterfinal games that I skipped over all of that. Thanks for bringing it up!

Beezer's main point seems to be that as a small state SC should quit trying to compete at the club level and instead cooperate through ODP or some other vehicle. I don't think it will work [as I've explained in detail]; but it's an interesting theory.