OPL Travel Distances: How far is your farthest game?

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If your kid is playing in OPL AND you are from the Portland metro area, do any of you have to travel to games farther out? What age group?

I ask because I thought all games were in the metro area and I'm hearing that some teams have to travel now (was not the case before).

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If your kid is playing in OPL AND you are from the Portland metro area, do any of you have to travel to games farther out? What age group?

I ask because I thought all games were in the metro area and I'm hearing that some teams have to travel now (was not the case before).

Was always the case for the older age groups. U11 is minimal travel. I know U12's go to Bend a little but by U13 and up it is state wide. Bend gets 7 home and 7 away games.

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Was always the case for the older age groups. U11 is minimal travel. I know U12's go to Bend a little but by U13 and up it is state wide. Bend gets 7 home and 7 away games.

Yes. Every U13G team has one game in Bend. And I think that same weekend Bend would have 2 home games. Makes sense.

All is better this year. Our first year at U12 we had no home games. They then tried to make up for it in the Spring. This year it is the same for everyone.

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Was always the case for the older age groups. U11 is minimal travel. I know U12's go to Bend a little but by U13 and up it is state wide. Bend gets 7 home and 7 away games.

Once and for all, it was NOT always the case. Quit trying to rewrite history.

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Once and for all, it was NOT always the case. Quit trying to rewrite history.

Yep was always the case U13 and above!

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Yep was always the case U13 and above!

Simply was not the case, if you want to review the history go back and read any of the old forums at the time of the split. It is impossible to count how many OPL parents expressed happiness that they wouldn't travel anymore because any non-Portland team was not worthy. So are we to understand that all of these parents are with teams younger than U13? Odd that as U11 or 12 parents they would have so much experience with traveling the state.

More likely OPL revisionists are trying once again to paint a smily face over another change they are being forced to make.

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Basing

You are basing this on what people posted on the forum?!?! Come on, this was the case from day one. Teams would not travel at U11 and 12 but would travel (each age group not just premier) at U13 and above. This was presented to EMFC, Bend and RVSC at a meeting in January before they made the split from OYSA from U11 - 18's.

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Not just in Portland

The games for U12B are not all in Portland. We have to go to Vancouver and Hood River.

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You are basing this on what people posted on the forum?!?! Come on, this was the case from day one. Teams would not travel at U11 and 12 but would travel (each age group not just premier) at U13 and above. This was presented to EMFC, Bend and RVSC at a meeting in January before they made the split from OYSA from U11 - 18's.

Yep, you got it. That's exactly how it was from the start. That's what our DOC told us and that's what was in the presentation.

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You are basing this on what people posted on the forum?!?! Come on, this was the case from day one. Teams would not travel at U11 and 12 but would travel (each age group not just premier) at U13 and above. This was presented to EMFC, Bend and RVSC at a meeting in January before they made the split from OYSA from U11 - 18's.

Nonsense. It's not just was posted on the forum. I don't know where the heck you're getting your info, but from top to bottom WITHIN OPL it was made clear that the PDX teams would not be traveling, except for a limited amount to Eugene, which is about 90-100 miles. Seems that everyone is willing to acknowledge this except you and a few OPL revisionists.

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So, is it the fault of the people on this forum that you have to travel? Maybe a misunderstanding in the way it was presented to you from your docs?

There is zero chance that a true competetive team can get away with no travel .... this is true in all states. Play a lower level and you might be able to get away with all PDX games. As a parent of a child who plays competetive soccer, we support competetion even when it is not in our back yard.

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Timing off

Parents and the like reposting this information after Bend and RVSC decided not to take the offer of the OPL early on. I would imagine they were happy that Bend and RVSC decided to not stay and play in the OPL. Sorry but your DOC has mislead you a little, this was offered and both the DOC's from Bend and Medford decided against it.

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Parents and the like reposting this information after Bend and RVSC decided not to take the offer of the OPL early on. I would imagine they were happy that Bend and RVSC decided to not stay and play in the OPL. Sorry but your DOC has mislead you a little, this was offered and both the DOC's from Bend and Medford decided against it.

Having painfully lived through this whole bloody mess, the offer made in the original OPL presentation shifted multiple times as they tried to land certain clubs. Unfortunately the original presentation is nowhere to be found, replaced with a highly revised narrative under OPL's history page.

The offer made was "If your whole club joins there will be the POSSIBILITY (emphasis added) of LIMITED (emphasis added again) home games". Basically put it was up to the OPC masters to decide if they wanted to travel or not. Anyone questioning this was met (as they are today) with a derisive comment about if you don't like it tough, just stay OYSA. For the revisionists who are so sure of there vision of the history, go ahead produce the original documents. If you can't
A) what is your opinion based on, and B) why would something as favorable to OPL be destroyed?

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Parents and the like reposting this information after Bend and RVSC decided not to take the offer of the OPL early on. I would imagine they were happy that Bend and RVSC decided to not stay and play in the OPL. Sorry but your DOC has mislead you a little, this was offered and both the DOC's from Bend and Medford decided against it.

Sorry, but the DOC's didn't make those decisions. The Boards did after extensive discussions and communications with a number of reps and confirmation of the pros and cons, including the mandates of OPL that all games would be in PDX. They made their decisions and the rationale very publicly known at that time. Have your "source" provide you with an iota of communications from years past supporting this imagination of yours - it doesn't exist. The reason things have changed this year is based in large part on the changes in the travel arrangements, which simply did not exist previously.

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Ever think

Ever think that your DOC painted the picture to his board a little differently then what really went down? I can assure you that what was presented to all three DOC's from outside of Portland was no travel at U11 & U12, these would be regionalized leagues. After that it would be state wide and all teams would travel. We can go round and round here I guess as the "proof" is not there to substantiate your claim or mine. This is what was told to me by our DOC back then and then confirmed again recently by another OPC DOC when I asked him this past weekend if I remembered things correctly. He said he wasn't sure why Bend and RVSC decided to stay with OYSA back then but the OPL definitely did not state that our teams would not travel as you would like to believe.

Call one of the OPL DOC's and see what they say, why would they lie about what they presented to the three clubs outside the Portland area back then? They would have nothing to gain from that.