Compliance to the Alliance? $$$$

[Rolling Hard]

Not true. We never used AGL after the first few attempts in year 1 and we got invites to the Tier 1 championship both years.

How many people do you know on the seedy Seeding Committee?

 

[_MIA_]

Simply appears from the outside the more you play, the more points you can get, hurray hurray let's try and be in the top 16.

I think that if you want to get to the National championships you still have to qualify by placing in the Top X of various qualifying tournaments. Now the quality of those tournaments does vary quite a bit I think.

 

[_MIA_]

How many people do you know on the seedy Seeding Committee?

Alliance Seeding and Oversight Committee for AFCS Announced – The Alliance Fastpitch

thealliancefastpitch.com

Madden is our org head so I know one..lol.

 

[radness]

I think that if you want to get to the National championships you still have to qualify by placing in the Top X of various qualifying tournaments.

Recall teams playing in qualifiers that there were so few teams in the qualifier everybody got a berth to alliance.

Now the quality of those tournaments does vary quite a bit I think.

Yes.

 

[wheresmycar]

I think that if you want to get to the National championships you still have to qualify by placing in the Top X of various qualifying tournaments. Now the quality of those tournaments does vary quite a bit I think.

True. Points do not get you into the show, you have win a birth by winning a qualifier event.

 

[radness]

True. Points do not get you into the show,

*

you have win a birth by winning a qualifier event.

*That's an important notation

 

[Rolling Hard]

Many teams are also saying. We don't want to spend $6K to go to Cali, we won't go to Cali, we can't afford Cali. You already have a choice in what team your DD joins. Do your homework. I knew darn well what events my DD's play every year before we joined. And it was expected that we travel to those tourneys.

Years ago, I spoke to a dad who's kid is a very prominent pitcher in the Big 12. They just got back from 14U PGF and he said that he would never go back. It was a complete joke and was entirely way to expensive. Let's face it, Cali teams have an advantage. They sleep in their own beds and can stack a team with 27 players in the dugout. I like the idea of moving the location every year but only to places that make sense. Not Midland, Tx or Normal, IL.

Then don't come. Thats fine. Understandable. But to be told you cant play in an alternative event closer to home because the ORG doesn't allow it is wrong. Team/coach/parents/players freedom is what I am advocating.
Also some of these teams were not made aware of their Orgs. compliance to the Alliance requirement until after the entered and paid for a PGF event. Now they are trying to get their money back from PGF. Good luck with that. Poor communication in TB orgs...imagine that!

 

[Dabears17]

Last year my DD's team "qualified" for Alliance because of a forfeit and decided that since we didn't really qualify, we would do PGF, since we won a platinum bid in a qualifier by going through the death march after losing our 2nd game. Came down to the last inning of last game to not get a premier bid.

The stronger competition in our area mostly played PGF and the competition wasn't that strong in the local Alliance tournaments last year.

We were told last fall that we would have to keep score using Athletes Go Live to qualify for Alliance Nationals this year. We were told we couldn't do PGF nationals this year, but not being able to do any PGF events was not clearly communicated.

The team that won 16u Alliance nationals last year had 3 players my DD played with during rec all-stars.

Should be interesting to see if the competition is stronger at the qualifying tournament this weekend, but only 7 16u teams are signed. At least half our parents aren't thrilled about having to fly to Indiana if we qualify.

Most of the older organizations in our area are still doing PGF.

 

[Orange Socks]

Then don't come. Thats fine. Understandable. But to be told you cant play in an alternative event closer to home because the ORG doesn't allow it is wrong. Team/coach/parents/players freedom is what I am advocating.
Also some of these teams were not made aware of their Orgs. compliance to the Alliance requirement until after the entered and paid for a PGF event. Now they are trying to get their money back from PGF. Good luck with that. Poor communication in TB orgs...imagine that!

I agree with that..

 

[El Oso]

Most of these Orgs. are 501b non profits.

Most of the Orgs are 501(c) 3? (there is no 501b status, that is the IRS code)

Firecrackers are incorporated. Same with OC Batbusters. Who is nonprofit?