Slappydad wrote:I was just curious as to why there are no qualifiers set in the fall or winter? Is it a matter of being too soon, no field availability, not enough team interest? It seems like it would be a great way to get some teams qualified, free up some summer schedules for those qualified teams and possibly speed up the scheduling process for both PGF and the teams attempting to qualify. Just curious, not complaining.
I'm confident the reason is too early. PGF has a limited number of berths and their main interest is getting the best teams to play - especially in the Premier division. They put in a lot of effort into identifying teams to invite and distributing the remaining berths to qualifiers. That seems to take them all fall and part of the winter.
Players "aging up" shouldn't be an issue for PGF because they run Sept-Aug. ASA players can wait until Jan to move up, but it's not an issue in their qualifiers because players in fall qualifiers have to be age-eligible for the next year too.