The way it works is USA Water Polo choose a (positive integer) number at random and then wait till Joe asks for schedule exactly that many times. Once the threshold is reached, Session 2 schedules are released.
P.S. It worked well with ODP Norcal eval event and championship rosters.
Schedule out: OneDrive
Ok, I may be a bit confused here.
Looking at 16u Girls Championship.
Last year, Texas Thunder (SWZ zone) took 27th and Cal Republic (CEN zone) took 28th. So we would expect to see a Texas team as seed 27 and a central team as seed 28 this year.
However, all spots after seed 22 have been bumped up by 1 due to Coastal zone losing an allocation (would have slotted into spot 23, where South Coast finished last year).
That being the case, there should be a Texas team in the 26th spot and a Central Zone team in the 27th spot, yet Clovis is currently seed 26 and Longhorn is 27. Why would Clovis have been bumped ahead of Longhorn?
The way I am looking at this, they have been incorrectly flipped. Please correct me if I am wrong.
And actually, now I see South Coast in seed 33. Why are they not seed 23?
So much for that…Looks like they went with a classic bracket.
I get the same result you do. Longhorn and Clovis are switched. Longhorn should be 26th, and Clovis should be 27th.
I’m not sure I see what you are looking at with South Coast’s placement. I have them at 32, which is the proper placement for the 7th CCA team.
Yes, thank you. I was mistaken about the coastal zone thing, but believe those 2 teams are incorrectly swapped.
This was the only reasonable thing to do- what took them so long? 
Clovis (like Royal 559 before them) was always one of those wild card teams no one wanted any part of on day 1.
805, Viper Pigeon, Del Mar, and Odin should all be pushing hard to get that odd bracketing error cleaned up.
Regency, LA Premier, 680, Arroyo Grande not so much…
Clovis took 2nd (1 goal loss in the final) at US Club Championships and knocked off a lot of top tier teams. There is no doubt they could be bracket busters this year, which is why they should be placed in their rightfully seeded slot.
To clarify - 2024 16u girls finishes vs 2025 seedings, starting at #20
20 - PAC - PAC
21 - PAC - PAC
22 - SoPac - Coastal (edited)
23 - Coastal - Texas
24 - Texas - PSW
25 - PSW - PSW
26 - PSW - Central
27 - Texas - Texas
28 - Central - Central
29 - Central - Coastal
30 - Coastal
It appears the #22 spot (SoPac) was deleted and everyone moved up (edited with new info), but they flip-flopped Central and Texas zones at #26/27… are they trying to avoid 2 Texas teams flying all the way to CA just to play each other in the first game (Viper Pigeons v Thunder)?
The deleted seed was #22, SOPAC’s 7th spot, which was where Tsunami Blue finished in 2024. This year, SOPAC only received 6 allocations and everyone below #22 slid up one. I don’t believe any of that has anything to do with why Longhorn and Clovis are switched. The coaches and/or club administration should take it up with Nick. It is not a job for parents or fans. If you don’t know who Nick is, then let your coaches and/or club administrator address it, but it should be addressed.
Nick doesn’t control the spots - he’s the data entry guy - USAWP / Katie Weiber / Ryan Cunnane control zone allocation placements
Is there any discretion in seeding and zone allocations? If “we don’t want to play a Texas team on day 1” suffices to get seeds switched in a highly impactful way that is a very slippery slope.
It also seems off to me that Texas teams would have a problem playing each other for one of their 8+ games. The teams with real motives are those who would have gotten Clovis on day 1. But if wanting an easier path suffices to get seeds switched, that’s actually corruption.
If SWZ requested a switch so two Texas teams aren’t playing each other, then USAWP would have to switch any team that is slotted to play their own zone on day 1. I see a PAC matchup, Coastal matchup, PSW matchup…
I’d advise you to email Ryan and/or Katie and let them know of the error - Occam’s razor - it’s likely just a mistake and not a grand conspiracy.
Pretty sure those emails have been sent.
No change in brackets.
The theorem that pairs well with Occam’s razor is
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.