by LVBlast12 » Sun Nov 11, 2012 3:05 am
WildCat Mom,
I'm not participating, but I always enjoy the reading and opinions, so I opened your attachment to see how you were putting this together. In retrospect, that was a bad decision, because it got me thinking....which is probably never good. Anyway, I'm curious as to how you selected the 23 teams you pre-populated onto your ranking form? Are you only using teams from specific tournaments? Are you only including teams from certain areas of OC and IE and not all of SoCal?
Just a suggestion, you may want to make sure you include some pretty good teams if you really are trying to create good reading and debate. Any team that did fairly well last summer, as the younger 12u team, is quite capable of competing with the others even if they have 1 bad tournament in the fall, that happens. Jynx 00, SoCal Pumas, Venom 00, Panthers? Those are teams that shouldn't need a "write in" for a 12u ranking ballot (which in of itself is pretty crazy unless Bracky is doing it...fun reading, but pretty crazy). SD Aztecs 2000 should be there as well. Jeremy has proven his teams will put in the work and be ready to compete when it matters.
Just my two cents. Have fun.