That and that GSE has nor cal home ice advantage ( not that the refs are partial...cough...cough) will make ir difficult
The scheduling is pretty bad when you compare across all 4 AA age groups for the CAHA weekends. I get that it comes down to which rinks put bids to host in, but come on...
12U - 2 of the 12 teams are NorCal but not 1 of their 3 league weekends is up north with Riverside, Riverside and Valencia penciled in. SoCal teams lucked out for sure.
14U - 3 of the 12 teams are NorCal, yet 3 of the 4 weekends (if you count States) are up north with
Vacaville, Valencia,
San Jose and then
Vacaville (States) all schedule. SoCal got screwed here.
16U - 2 of the 12 teams are NorCal. They drew Irvine, Anaheim,
Vacaville and then
Vacaville (States).
18U -
4 of the 12 teams are NorCal but they drew no Norcal regular season weekends with the schedule showing Anaheim, Irvine and then
Vacaville (States).
CAHA needs to do better here. Why not balance this out a bit more between the divisions? 1 NorCal trip in the reg season per age group instead of 12U getting none and 14U getting 2. Hell, swap Vacaville with Irvine and send 18U up to Vacaville once in the reg season and use Irvine for States. The vast majority of teams are from down here anyways.