as the world turns wrote:Sftbll4ever wrote:as the world turns wrote:This year the gold classification is such a futile effort. All the top teams will be at Premier, the smart teams will stay in CA and participate in 18A in Hemet and not bother with the gold thing, but also try to qualify for Premier. The dumb teams will try to qualify for ASA Gold Nationals and travel to Georgia, spend a ton of money and get rained out. ASA will be lucky if they have 50 teams for the Gold qualifier after the better teams bail out. It looks like teams are getting bumped into the Gold 50 even though they didn't earn it, i.e. teams with a 1-2 record qualify? Smells like TCS and USSSA. What a joke.
We have two national tournaments in our own back yard, why bother going to Georgia. The Gold competition is going to be so watered down, just sayin.
Will they allow Gold classified teams in the 18A Nats in Hemet or will they force them to play in the new 18-Gold Western Nats in Stockton?
How would you rank the strength of the 18U tournaments - 18G Nats, 18G Western Nats and 18A Nats?