There was an evaluation, it was confirmed based on what your club responded on your potential placement. Also, hate to say... i heard many coaches said bottom flight even though they will NEVER admit it! It's easier to point the finger and watch everyone go crazy! Haha!!!
You know me... I dig vs ranting to see WTF is going on. I've also always said Valencia should have been top flight and maybe 1 other and have the rest drop.
Not letting you get away with that, sorry bud.
1. I talked to our Club rep BEFORE San Jose. I believe he did what he said he did, because there is NO reason for him not to have or to lie to me.
2. I KNOW you had visibility to the rankings. That doesn't mean that the rankings were not manipulated. Stating that you KNOW what the club reported simply isn't accurate. You saw a ranking you were told was based on something, but you didn't make the list yourself did you?
3. Our Jamboree games were all close, especially during the time we had evaluators attending. We pulled our goalie in every game we were behind and gave up 2 empty netters out of the 3 games we lost. Maybe if our coach had known that score was the only thing being considered we might not have.
4. CAHA board member TOLD ME, "Your team was NEVER considered for Flight1." There were 2 other parents standing there when this was stated to us.
5. As you know I had the score sheets with shots on goal as well. I even posted shot on goal totals for all the teams just prior to the Flighting.
It sounds like you were privy to some formal or informal polling of coaches who had the chance to have input into where teams should be placed. Our clubs and coaches were not involved in this, never knew about it, and were never consulted.
We can go back to the announcement and already people were expressing concerns that there was no criteria. The CAHA book has rules out the wazoo, and the Flight system should have come along with rules concerning how the Flighting would be done from the get-go and we could have avoided a lot of this BS. It was done in secret, and it clearly involved a bunch of people voting or manipulating the flights to your point. I'm not sure why you would want to defend it.
Even if the Flighting got some teams wrong, if it had been done in the open, with clarity and information provided to ALL the coaches and clubs, I would have absolutely nothing to complain about.