Spazsdad wrote:Teams weren’t “drawn away” from IDT. Nobody is sending their “B” teams to IDT. The teams in the Super Cup final played Tuesday before IDT starts. Only the championship game was Wednesday morning and in 14u the Angels forfeited to go to their pool games in IDT.
All of the Mercado Gold teams (Smith, Hovermale, Tidd) are playing the TCS tournament this week instead of the IDT. In fact, Athletics Mercado B teams are all at the TCS event as well and it's the C and D teams playing at IDT.
Is Athletics Mercado Academy nobody? They won Alliance last year, they just swept the Team 1 Elite Club Championship titles in Kansas City a couple weeks ago and won PGF the last time it was relevant, in 2019, but they're nobodies.
What about Brashear, where are his teams? Ricos teams, where are they. West Bay Warriors, Bombers, AZ Storm Mathis, GA Impact...... all skipped IDT to play TCS.
To say that nobody sent their B teams or were drawn away and sent no teams at all to IDT is about as honest as saying that gas prices are high because of putin or that Lia Thomas is a woman. You can choose to open your eyes or choose to keep them closed