by dustyshoes » Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:34 am
Yes, as noted the 16u qualifier bracket I posted awards three berths so only one team in that field won't get one. That being the case, as someone who lives on the east coast I think it is a little premature to say PGF is losing ground when it hasn't had much of a chance to gain ground.
Most of the high profile orgs in this area will have their 18u gold teams try to qualify for PGF while the 16u or younger teams will chase an ASA berth. I wasn't around travel ball in the glory days of ASA but wasn't it fairly common for a SoCal team to parachute into a soft east coast qualifier, like Am Pastime in the above PGF example, in order to punch their ticket to ASA nats?