Here is some first hand info:
The Fargo tourney follows the Minnesota birth year, which means squirts for 2016/2017 includes anyone born on or after July 1, 2005. The parents of any kids on W1 born before that date were told before they signed LOI's that the team would be travelling to this tourney and that their kids were not eligible. But they were eligible for the Labor Day, Thanksgiving, New Year's, and President's Day tournaments so its not like they didn't get a lot of extra games in this season.
Also apparently SCAHA approved for them to have a bye week in order to travel that weekend. However, they still scheduled them for a game that weekend. W1 notified SCAHA that they had mistakenly scheduled them for a game on a weekend that they had already been told they could take off to travel. What do the ever so gracious schedulers at SCAHA do? Instead of fixing the schedule they just decide to rescind the scheduling accommodation.Scheduling is hard, fixing mistakes is even harder.Already bought your plane tickets? Sorry. Already made a tournament deposit? Well I guess that's your problem.