catcherzrule wrote: BTW, if the loser's bracket teams BOTH get berths, it's a damn shame and PGF could easily set up a one-game berth event in CA...near the beach of course! So Cal A's and a FC team...something smells like nepotism to me!
Well, both teams did get berths so what do you care; can you live with that or do you want to wine about it some more?
PGF does have tie-breaking rules for awarding berths when a qualifier is cut short due to weather etc. The rules, in this particular situation, would have essentially come down to the team that went the furthest in the winners bracket gets the one remaining berth out of the losers bracket. That appears to be what PGF did in 18u by not awarding Lionettes a Premier berth but they got a Platinum berth instead, and that also appears to be what PGF did in the 16u by awarding Batbusters-Ted a berth and not awarding a berth Firecrackers-Young, even though FC had beating BB to force the "if" game, that was in progress and I believe FC was ahead when the umps walked off the field.
In 14u, the PGF rules would have apparently resulted in Firecrackers-Roman being awarded the one remaining berth, but a berth was also awarded to So Cal Athletics-Mercado. C'est la vie.