I think it was pretty clear he was not talking about the top Flight1 teams. It's also clear, that you struggle with basic math or an understanding of the Flights. There are 9 teams in each Flight. It will be obvious after the 2nd CAHA weekend which teams are going to struggle, but if we assume your "top 4" then there may be as many as 5 Flight1 teams that can be beat or tied by a Flight2 team on any given day. These are the teams that he was referring to.
Seems that I struggle with basic math as much as you struggle with reading and comprehension. I did mention numerous times that the 7 teams I'm referring to are all SOCAL teams. We were talking about flighted SCAHA games, correct? Obviously there are 9 teams in each flight, but I hope you're not planning to fly north to play GSE1&2 or Sharks except during CAHA weekends...
My profoundest apologies, as I can do nothing but admit I glossed over that detail, so you have me there.
As to the rest of your argument -- it reads as borderline Stockholm syndrome, and I am sick of the argument.
Q: "Why did you guys make the pledges drink until one of them had to be taken to the hospital with alcohol poisoning?"
A: "We went through the same thing when we were pledging"
Q: "Why did you beat your kid black and blue with a belt?"
A: "My parents beat me all the time when I was bad, and look how I turned out."
And for the record, and this is not splitting hairs, you got to play the full set of SCAHA teams last season AND had Flight 2 playoffs available to you, and don't even bother to pretend your team didn't make the playoffs a goal when you failed to win Flight 2.
The pool of potential Flight1 teams is much larger this year, and more arbitrary. This is the data that was generated at the Jamboree, plain and simple. If they are going to ignore the Jamboree data, then WTF was that for?
Nobody gives a crap what you guys did last year in Bantam Flight 2. Every year is not the same. You keep trying to justify this as if it's a system that has a historic foundation when it was cooked up by a couple of people at CAHA/SCAHA in a vacuum, and they keep changing rules AFTER people sign up. For someone who plays at the Wave you of all people should be aware of how the rules are not applied in the same way to all the clubs.