I thought CAHA nailed it for Bantams last year. The best flight 2 team had the chance to move on to Playdowns, but they lost, and I believe they lost by 6 or 7 goals. No matter what CAHA does, or doesn't do, people complain. Before it was there were too many AAA teams, and now it's that anyone should be able to be a AAA team. Now we complain about the Flight system (usually only the teams that gets put in Flight 2). I'm happy we won't have to play Flight 2 teams at CAHA weekends this year. There's a big difference between Major Bantam teams and a mostly Minor Bantam teams. At least CAHA is trying to fix what's broken and then adjusting again the next season. At some point they'll get it right. And I hope they do cancel the Flight 2 playoffs. None of the Flight 2 Bantam teams wanted to play in the playoffs, but we were threatened with fines and or club sanctions. Who wants to have a playoff for 2nd place in the loser bracket (1st place team was not allowed back to Flight 2 after play in game)?
I believe the biggest problem is CAHA and SCAHA is not moving teams to the division they should be in, which is almost always DOWN. Fix the LOI rules, you sign for a coach and you don't get a release if the team is forced to drop. If CAHA and SCAHA move teams down, the problem will fix itself in a year or two. Teams will slot themselves in the correct division instead of pissing off parents when the team drops. They should also limit the amount of teams in a division to 16 max and add a BB or C division.