New England Soccer Jamboree?? Anyone know what this is about??

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Welcome to the inaugural year of the New England Soccer Jamboree! The Soccer Jamboree*format is*designed to allow your team to play competitive games while focusing on developing your teams play. Our goal is for each team to be able to compete against*teams from other states, eliminate league restrictions that keep teams from playing and*establish a festival format that creates excitement around the games.

The play date format will be to have matches on three separate Saturday play dates.* On each of the three Saturdays, your team will*play*in double header games against different opponents. We are planning on playing one Saturday*in April, May and June (dates and locations are pending).** Games will be played against teams from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island.

This is an opportunity for your team to participate in a format where the primary interest is in you and your team! We want your team to have the opportunity to play against*teams from other states*to*allow*you to focus on developing your team.

We hope you enjoy the New England Soccer Jamboree experience!

For more information on the New England Soccer Jamboree please visit the Soccer Rhode Island website.

Ray White
Soccer Maine
President **** Steve Votolato
Soccer Rhode Island
President

candia campbell
New Hampshire Soccer
Executive Vice President
Meg Munson
Vermont Soccer
Executive Director
Steve Votolato
President
Soccer Rhode Island

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Lol - lmao - rotfl

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State run development tourney, lol!!!!

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I have some questions,,

Is this new league for premier teams or town teams?

Can a premier club or town association submit a roster for this league that is different than its roster for SuperLiga, Maple, MASC, NEP?

Why are Mass and CT not participating?

I see some potential for this league as a supplement to weekly Sunday spring matches. The new league will only play 1 Saturday a month in April, May, June - 2 games per day. Thus, it would not interfere with premier. It will, however, interfere with SuperLiga 1 Saturday a month.

The rules also state that a team can use the new league as a qualifying league for state cup. Would this be a way for a town team with kids from 3+ towns to circumvent the "3-town rule" and play state cup?

Anyone have more info?

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I have some questions,,

Is this new league for premier teams or town teams?

Can a premier club or town association submit a roster for this league that is different than its roster for SuperLiga, Maple, MASC, NEP?

Why are Mass and CT not participating?

I see some potential for this league as a supplement to weekly Sunday spring matches. The new league will only play 1 Saturday a month in April, May, June - 2 games per day. Thus, it would not interfere with premier. It will, however, interfere with SuperLiga 1 Saturday a month.

The rules also state that a team can use the new league as a qualifying league for state cup. Would this be a way for a town team with kids from 3+ towns to circumvent the "3-town rule" and play state cup?

Anyone have more info?

If you have questions I would pick up the phone and call SV at SRI. He's easy to talk to and I'm sure he'll fill you in. The league is U12 and above btw

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Info in terms of application/rules on SRI webpage.

Qualifies for State Cup if you play all matches (6).

It would appear this is an excellent way for town programs that chafe at the 3 town rule to get around it; that is, you could (1) enter teams normally into SL but also create an *all-star* team from the various teams to enter here and then into state cup (as long as your *regular* SL teams don't enter state cup - but almost none of them do).

I can see a club like South County that has multiple anchor teams perhaps jumping on this going forward as essentially you could create a team regardless of the 3 town rule and still get into S/C. Even better, although only 6 games, you can decide if you want to supplement with friendlies/tournaments at your own desire -- this truly is more in line with the guidance in US Soccer best practices/player development guidance.

The big question is whether this is consider a "league" (I suspect not, although doesn't SC rules require you play 4 games in a qualifying "league" so technically maybe it should be a league..and since roster rules don't apply, it's furthermore a "premier league.").

And of course, what quality of teams will enter..still it's at least a new alternative.

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Info in terms of application/rules on SRI webpage.

Qualifies for State Cup if you play all matches (6).

It would appear this is an excellent way for town programs that chafe at the 3 town rule to get around it; that is, you could (1) enter teams normally into SL but also create an *all-star* team from the various teams to enter here and then into state cup (as long as your *regular* SL teams don't enter state cup - but almost none of them do).

I can see a club like South County that has multiple anchor teams perhaps jumping on this going forward as essentially you could create a team regardless of the 3 town rule and still get into S/C. Even better, although only 6 games, you can decide if you want to supplement with friendlies/tournaments at your own desire -- this truly is more in line with the guidance in US Soccer best practices/player development guidance.

The big question is whether this is consider a "league" (I suspect not, although doesn't SC rules require you play 4 games in a qualifying "league" so technically maybe it should be a league..and since roster rules don't apply, it's furthermore a "premier league.").

And of course, what quality of teams will enter..still it's at least a new alternative.

Not sure how this would get you around three town rule for SC? That is an SRI RULE, not a league rule. If you are a town team playing in MAPLE for example, there is no three town rule. However, if you enter that team in State Cup, you are bound by the three town rule. So how would this league be any different. SRI only allows three teams on a town team's roster. PERIOD. Unless you're U14 or above, when the rule disappears.

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yeah right all these teams are going to miss games in their normal leagues for three weekends??
MA and CT are smart enough to stay away.

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it is a way for lame clubs and teams to proclaim some sort of achievement or lack thereof.

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it is a way for lame clubs and teams to proclaim some sort of achievement or lack thereof.

It is a way for kids to play more soccer games.

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That is an SRI RULE, not a league rule.


Each and every team may not have more than three (3) communities;
Each team is independent of all other teams in that association.
Limits apply to U14 teams and below. Limits do NOT apply to U15 teams and above.
Limits do not apply to Recreational, Indoor, Tournament, and SRI Member Premier Club
teams or to any nonstandard soccer


Mo**FO -- What's this "Revision 25 by vote of the SRI General Council on September 26, 2011?"

Anybody attend this meeting..seems in addition to the 3 town rule, SRI amended the definitions of premier player and league to clearly prevent any town team from getting in..what was this -- a quid pro quo for letting this NE Jamboree in?

Premier Player: means a player registered to a SRI Premier club, or to a non-SRI
member association a player registered to a team that participates in a league considered a
premier league.

This "non-SRI" member association is an add along with the change to "SRI Premier Club" -- when will SRI publish the minutes from the 26 Sept meetings?

typical SRI..oh, yeah, it's about 'meeting the needs of the membership'...you mean protecting the premier clubs and OD's business.

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Do you really want to know the source of all this?

Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have had trouble getting their better teams good competition. This is because they are far better than their local opponents but still far worse than the Massachusetts teams.

They are also often too far to play in MAPLE, unlike the RI teams.

Then came the NEP!

NEP had a good number of Maine, New Hampshire teams in the league, and when it first started it was just a happy collection of New England teams from MPS, Seacoast, MPS and Seacoast.

But then came the good Massachusetts teams.

The rumors are that a lot of the lower level clubs are going to be chopped, including some of the founding clubs.

Bruno is one of these rumored clubs, despite being one of the founding clubs. Blackwatch did not get into the NEP, and Bayside only got in based on their Bolts affiliation.

So these clubs need a place to play. Look at the language in that first post.

So this will be for the bottom NEP dwellers who are sick of playing in MAPLE. Look for Blackwatch from our fair state for sure, with maybe Bruno, maybe Tidal Wave who also expressed interest in NEP but aren't qualified.

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Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have been at this for years. They did something like this just when premier was starting in Rhode Isalnd. It usually lasts a season or so and then fizzles. Bottom line is Rhode Island teams can play competition just as good or better without driving north all the time. Also you drive up there and referee's are so biased it's sickening. This won't last as it's been tried before. Seriously - the only people who care about this are those who can profit from it - it's not more soccer for the kids as a post says a few posts ago.

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I get the rationale behind why the creation (or re-creation) of this league.

My point is I thought the SRI Sep meeting was merely to amend the 3 town rule to apply separately to each team (in the affected age group/clubs) as opposed to the even more clunky rule that the first team in the club's age group established the 3 towns, etc.

But it seems SRI has changed the definition of premier player and league as well..which has nipped in the bud any chance of a good town program getting a team into this new league and playing in state cup without having to abide by the 3 town rule (U8-U14).

I was asking if anyone knows how this change came about as SRI hasn't posted the minutes and those changes weren't on the agenda.