PDad wrote:Spazsdad wrote:When did ASA start playing out the bracket at State it was always the undefeated team got 1st and the 2nd and 3rd place came from the losers side.
There's no longer a reason to not play out the bracket since the number of teams has dropped so low. There were only 26 teams at 14U State according to the website.
And I believe ASA was awarding 12 berths to ASA Nats out of those 26 teams. That on the heels of a NQ that I believe gave out 3 berths from a tournament of 8 teams. So nearly half of the teams that played in those 2 ASA tournaments got berths to ASA.
Compare those numbers to this weekend's So Cal PGF qualifier that has 48 teams playing for 4 berths, plus about 10 or so teams that could not get in to the qualifier. This sounds like the ASA states from about 5 or 6 years ago when there were something like 50 or more teams playing for 3 berths to ASA Nats.