[jammin' jamey]

From a very good inside source...

I was told that Shelby Valley in fact was invited as the 2nd team from the 15th Region to participate in the YMT '08 Classic, accepted the bid and then declined for reasons unknown. It's also my understanding that the committee ranks all teams that apply to participate in the tournament and once SV declined, the committee settled with the next best team in terms of their rankings and it was a 14th Region team. Sounds like some other good teams from the 15th may not have been interested in playing or they were ranked below the next best team in the committee's rankings which was a 14th region squad.

This settles the discussion about whether they should take a certain number of teams from each region across the board no matter their talent record OR take the best teams who applied no matter what region they are in.

I for one think you should create the best tournament possible by having the most talented teams play.