My son played Tier that year as a PW. They combined 2 ideas:
-Reduced season to 1 CAHA weekend per south team.
-Made all "SCAHA" games part of the normal schedule.
There were 18 teams in the AA, So the entire season boiled down to every team played each other once. 18 game season. This is why people complained. They were still paying all that money and only playing 18 games.
It's interesting to look back on it, because there were 5 Norcal teams that year:
GSE 1
GSE 2
Blackhawks
Colts
Sharks
This year there is going to be how many from Norcal? Meanwhile it seems that their local competion 'A' league has grown to be 9 teams? Seems that in Norcal there is dwindling interest in CAHA and the associated time, expense and Flight nonsense.