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gnarledout t1_j896wuw wrote

Similar for this tournament at least for my son. Each of the kids (they’re matched up in pairs) are staying with a Billet family and all the parents are in hotels. A lot of these neighborhoods have rinks in the area so all the kids get to play pond hockey when they aren’t playing. It’s so rad. The host families have been awesome.

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bdlugz t1_j88yug0 wrote

I can't speak to this tournament specially, but I will say this: almost all tournaments have ranking requirements to play, so a team cannot play down if they have a higher ranking than allowed by that division. The Ukraine team is also a mixed team of 11 and 12 year olds, so it's unlikely they'd be competitive in a true peewee major AAA division. I can't speak to whether they should be in AA, elite, or AAA, but the tournament likely controls that better than any spectator realizes.

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