JO Quals Schedules

General
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Any international imports into CCA teams for Quals? A few have a reputation for such moves.

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SOPAC:

Only posting the results for Championship Allocations based on preliminary allocations. This zone is so huge it would take way too long to figure everything else out.

10u Girls

  1. Newport
  2. San Clemente A
  3. North Irvine
  4. San Clemente B
  5. Socal

Newps had no issue with the competition. Great looking team.

10u Coed

  1. Rancho Tsunami
  2. Laguna A
  3. Elite
  4. OCWPC A
  5. Back Bay
  6. Los Alamitos A
  7. Patriot B
  8. OCWPC B

Close division. Tsunami took the win, but all the top 7 teams can beat eachother. True 10u stuff.

10u Boys

  1. Patriot A
  2. Socal
  3. Newport A
  4. San Clemente A
  5. North Irvine A
  6. Vanguard
  7. Newport B
  8. CDM

Patriot dominated this division. Nobody was close.

12u Girls

  1. Patriot
  2. San Clemente A
  3. Back Bay A
  4. Newport A
  5. Los Alamitos
  6. OCWPC
  7. SoCal

Patriot beat everyone. They seemed really hard to score on and were in control of every game.

12u Boys

  1. Vanguard A
  2. Newport A
  3. Patriot A
  4. North Irvine A
  5. Socal
  6. Mission
  7. Elite

Newport and Vanguard went into a shootout. This will be a division to watch at JOs. The top of the field is all capable of beating eachother. I’d say all of the top 6 SoPac teams have a legit shot at it.

14u Boys

  1. Patriot A
  2. Mission
  3. Newport A
  4. Socal A
  5. Vanguard A
  6. OCWPC A

I was very impressed with Patriot. They played dominant. Also impressed with Socal. Didn’t expect them in the semis, but their best player Shawn Zhao really showed out.

14u Girls

  1. Patriot A
  2. Newport A
  3. Patriot B
  4. San Clemente A
  5. SoCal
  6. Rancho Tsunami

Newport came to play. On the final day they slaughtered Patriot B and lost in a 11 shot shootout to Patriot A.

Overall a good weekend of water polo with some close games, some upsets and some dominant performances.

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Did not see any at 16/18, but could have missed them. What was seen was some very difficult to understand and interpret refereeing in 16’s at certain pools. I understand it is a tough and thankless job, but if you are going to do it you can’t have pivotal calls in the last 2 mins of games be so varied with no consistency. Separately, one game had 3 5 meters called and then overturned by the other ref, turning them into ordinary fouls. It was hard to figure out for both teams how to play physically or how to draw a 5 meter or an ejection. It was baffling.

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Do you have 14u boys?

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Just got it

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CIU 16s had 2 Canadians but they have played pretty much every Tournament and Futures weekend since January so not “ringers” brought in for JOs. I heard one is already enrolled in a local HS.

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Would love to see any analysis of the 16/18 JO qualifying teams. Congrats to all the teams for their hard work this weekend and wishing them well in JOs.

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2025 SOPAC OLDER QUALS TEAM LISTING AND BRACKETS AND SCHEDULES
https://1drv.ms/x/c/6f253ef3afcfe1c8/EXn9qlRLLplKh_GsgCAyq_UBFPGjshSWADMV_MRyOsNlSw?e=0dgJSh

USA Water Polo will be announcing updated allocations Wednesday, June 4, 2025, so we should have updated qualification opportunities prior to the event, with more if other zones do not fill theirs

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I was wondering when the re-allocations were supposed to happen, so a heartfelt “Thank you!” to @polo for the heads up.

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Maybe a dumb question. Do they ever add teams to Championship or do they just add teams to classic when they update allocations?

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Yes they do, larger zones very often get one or two more spots in the champ. usually on the girl side

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Generally speaking, the Championship bracket is set at 48 slots. In the initial slot allocations, USAWP is overly generous to non-California zones in effort to expand the sport. By the time PSW, SPA, CST, and PAC have their quals, the other zones have already signaled how many teams they intend to send, and however many non-California zone slots go unused gets redistributed to the California zones on reallocation day, this year on June 4.

There has only been one instance I know of where USAWP expanded the Championship bracket to include more than 48 teams. If anyone from the USAWP offices read this site, please don’t take more than 48. The 48-team bracket is a work of art. Also, a ton of respect to Nick, Tijmen, and Brendan for hammering out something fair that one time.

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New allocations are up:

The invitational is back

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What does that mean?

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It means that the teams who qualified for the Invitational will be playing in their own mini tournament for places 97-121.

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Thanks @JackBurton

Does anyone have the historic doc showing preliminary allocations so we can see which zones got extra spots?

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For comparison to PRIOR YEAR DATA, here’s LAST YEAR’s allocation from June 4, 2024:

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any idea why they do this some years and not for other years?

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probably had less interest in going toTexas from the California teams why not make more money, let more teams in.

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OC has more pools than Bay Area?

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