I played in the Mixed E this year.. it was a very good tournament. Getting Dirty had 7 C females on there team and I am sure a guy or two. Black and yellow challenged there roster and of was given the 100 dollars protest fee back but lost the protest. Why would you give them the 100 back if they lost the protest? Cover up? NJ/NY had 4 teams finish in the top 10 this year it was a great showing. Darkside, Bye Youuuu, 2 out the box and Caught Looking. those four teams battled at nationals. The reason people don't want to move up is cause Holland will let a E team have 7 C females what do you think will happen if you go to d. As far as assassins they are a really good team. The men all play together and are young the have speed and are all real good ball players and there females are getting better and better every day. Holland abused his power and carol who was running the tournament for him covered it up for him..
Not a cover up...everyone was told rosters were not able to be protested. However I think it's a stupid policy to allow State Directors to approve rosters since they will cater to those who pay their fees and make money for them.
We, Heavy Hitters, played D this year and didn't have a single C player. All my guys play E and 5 ladies play D. When we played E 2 years ago we only had 4 D ladies and everyone else played E. Bob and I don't get along, anyone local will tell you that and I think it was a farce that he allowed those C ladies play E. He also allowed a team full of C guys (who will be B next year due to their finish at Men's C Worlds) to play Mixed D when in the rule book it clearly states only 2 C players on a Mixed D team no matter what gender. This is why softball is dying...no adhearance to the rule book. Most of the teams in question came from Bob Hollands area (MD, NJ, DE, VA, NY, PA).
The only saving grace was none of the teams with questionable rosters won....call it Karma?
Lethal Forces is a solid team...period. They have been playing D for a couple years and finally made a good run not to mention abunch of classy people. Darkside winning E...not sure if they lost enough players to drop down but nothing you can do about it now.
I still say once you win a World Title you shouldn't be allowed to play at that level again. This will help build the D, C, B, etc.. levels. If you have all World honors but weren't on the winning team, well you should be allowed to drop down but only with another team that doesn't have other Honor winning players. If you are bumped as a team then every player should carry the new classification level for 2 years....period. If you join another team then you should have to follow the same classification rules which should be no more than 3 players from the next level. Why does everyone want to play at the lowest level....did your parents not show you enough attention as a kid? Do you search for the lowest crappiest job? Do you want to date the ugliest mate to spend the rest of your life with? Just doesn't make sense to me.