The schedule is TBD, but it is happening again this year. It was a winner last year, hope to see continued momentum here.
More prize money? Smoke machine for player intros? Live screen on deck with replays ? Player interviews? What will be added this year…
(Reposting my question here to bring this thread up to use as the main discussion point for Quicksilver 2025)
Another tournament I don’t have a view on yet is Quicksilver. I’m not sure how it’s being seeded or structure. Does anyone know?
It’s 10 days from now, the weekend before JOs. At least last year, it featured 16 teams, most if not all from the top 20. I believe it runs over four days with one or, at most, two games per day?
Having a major tournament a week before JOs seems to be sub-optimal, especially for the teams traveling to SoCal.
Antiwave and the Newport Invite are also happening the same weekend.
The weekend of July 10-13th? That seems like bad scheduling.
I just checked and both tournaments occur that weekend. Anyone has the final list of teams participating in each tournament?
The schedule link above post is active and shows schedule
I only see last year’s schedule on that link.
4 potentially large tournaments in OC
Quiksilver
Antiwave
Newport HS Invitational
And Villa Park CA High School Champs
And the Hale Tournament in Riverside Area…
Could be bad scheduling…but more likely seems like some folks want one last pay day before JOs.
The schedule is not populated, but it will be here: Link
The 16 teams in the 18U boys are:
Mission, LB Shores, Imperial, CCU, Vanguard, SD Shores, CNAB (Barcelona), Fraser Valley (Canada), Greenwich, CIU, La Jolla United, CT Premier, Diablo, North Irvine (Beast Boys), Team Vegas, OCWPC.
Should be a good an international weekend.
Do you know the 18u girls teams?
Last year this tournament seemed new and fresh and well organized…definitely lived up to the hype…and Woollett was jumping on the last day.
This year seems like they are behind with schedules, lacking organization (and high level teams they had last year) and focusing on slick social media posts and merch offerings. And finals are up in Long Beach at the City College…
Will be interesting to see how the weekend plays out.
LBCC is a great venue.
Either way they are still doing better than the Anti-Wave tournament.
There are several high level teams at Quicksilver. First place, third place and 4th place finishers at last weekend’s Super Finals are playing.
And CNAB will give any of this teams a good run for their money.
I believe Quiksilver waits until after Super Finals so that they can seed the tournament with the most up to date results.
If I read the 18UB seeding correctly:
Beat Boys
CNAB
Mission
CCU
CIU
Vanguard
Greenwich
Imperial
Diablo
SD Shores
Vegas/North Irvine
LB Shore
LJ United
OCWPC
Frazer Valley
By and large the seeding makes sense, although CNAB is a wild card on a relative basis. CIU at 5th place seems high, but I don’t know the team that well and potentially they missed many players in Futures. They were seeded 9 and finished 20.
Agreed it looks mostly good. CIU went 5-13 in Futures league play (2 games won in the all important week 3). Of those 5 wins, they lost to 3 of them in another week. They went 1-5 at super finals again losing to 2 teams they had defeated earlier. 5 seed seems high. Vanguard, Greenwich, imperial, and Diablo all could be ahead of them.
CIU was missing at least two starters at super finals on that trip. Ryder Davis and Will Stuart. Not sure if they had anyone else missing.
Not as many internationals as I was expecting. I’ll never understand how programs like Vanguard and SD Shores need to turn to imports for these tournaments. That might explain why those clubs have been passed up by their local competitors for talent.