My prior comments on the AA system are numerous. I agree about the Wave. I really don't know why they were dropped when they could have had 10 teams in Flight1 per the Flighting rules.
I believe that after last season, CAHA was not eager to put any of the primarily '06 teams into Flight 1, especially if those teams aren't named Kings or Ducks. I didn't see more than a few minutes of one of their games, but as an '06 team, it was going to be an uphill battle for Gulls2 unless they were undeniably a better team than at least 5 other teams in Flight1.
Every season since the inception of it, Flighting has screwed over 2-4 flight 2 teams not because they would beat everyone in Flight1, but simply that they are good enough to play competitive games with the lower to mid flight1 teams, but will be denied the chance. That wasn't supposed to be the role of CAHA.
As they didn't Flight any division other than Bantam, it seems like the writing is on the wall, that the clubs themselves must be fighting the system to the degree that there was no appetite for it.
The irony is that Bantam AA has 2 AAA teams this year, which makes it even less reasonable to exclude teams by flighting with such a huge gap between the top 2 and everyone else in AA. The really sad part is that the teams from 3-16 are probably closer to each other than in any season I can remember. If not for the top 2, it would be a really interesting and competitive AA season.
All you can do is make the best of wherever you are even if you got served a shit sandwich. The problem is that there are still people who buy into the basic premise of flighting which helps perpetuate it. I don't blame the CAHA board for that. I do blame them for losing sight of the fact that they are administrators for a league, and not evaluators of competitive competency. The minute they started listening to knucklehead parents with inflated egos and superiority complexes was the minute that CAHA lost sight of its reason for being.