goober
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I was looking at the Socal Women's team that won 4.0 Nationals this year. The team was made up of players that live very far from each other.
Newport Beach, Pomona, Mission Hills, Westlake Village, Santa Margarita, San Gabriel, Azusa and Rolling Hills were some of the cities represented on one single team. If you are familiar with socal, these areas are very far apart covering 3 different counties: Los Angeles County, Orange County and Inland Empire. The population probably of this entire area is around 18-20 million. Some of these cities are an hour to hour and half drive away from each other.
Obviously this team was put together to find the very top players with 4.0 ratings all over Socal and make a run at Nationals. Ok I understand you need all stars for Nationals, but this seems to be taking it to the extreme.
Question: should there be any geographical limits on where teams can recruit players from? In less populated areas- probably not, but in densely populated metro areas, this seems almost unfair.
Newport Beach, Pomona, Mission Hills, Westlake Village, Santa Margarita, San Gabriel, Azusa and Rolling Hills were some of the cities represented on one single team. If you are familiar with socal, these areas are very far apart covering 3 different counties: Los Angeles County, Orange County and Inland Empire. The population probably of this entire area is around 18-20 million. Some of these cities are an hour to hour and half drive away from each other.
Obviously this team was put together to find the very top players with 4.0 ratings all over Socal and make a run at Nationals. Ok I understand you need all stars for Nationals, but this seems to be taking it to the extreme.
Question: should there be any geographical limits on where teams can recruit players from? In less populated areas- probably not, but in densely populated metro areas, this seems almost unfair.