July 21, 2012

OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Please distribute to your coaches and players in your club and leagues for the following age groups:  2000, 1999, 1998 and 1997.

Teams that believe they deserve placement in a different division provide a "challenge" to a specific team they wish to replace.

NOTE: this is a very short window for feedback!

Format:
email: gender/age/seeder@calnorth.org (GU10seeder@calnorth.org) 
cc copy:  ccsldirector@calnorth.org
cc copy: D1ccsl@calnorth.org 
Subject: challenge by: complete name of challenging team (club name, team name, gender and age)
Body: a concise presentation of specific information that qualifies your team to challenge the other team (for example, head-to-head results in Cup competition). You must challenge a specific team in the bracket you want to join and provide a link to the specific results that validate your request .
Deadline: 9pm, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 for all challenges

The team being challenged will be informed within 24 hours, and they may counter challenge another team in the bracket.  The counter-challenged team will be informed in order to defend the challenge but may not further counter-challenge.  All teams involved in a challenge and counter challenge must foll ow CCSL Procedures.

Deadline: 9pm, Friday, July 27, 2012 for submission of all challenge responses and counter-challenges.

The AGCs will present the final recommendations to the CCSL Executive Committee for vote and the final brackets will be posted by July 30, 2012. 

What's next?
The next phase is the creation of schedules.  We will be sending further information to you about the blackout dates and other scheduling information in the next few days and once again, the deadlines are rathe r short, so please check your email frequently!