Team registration for the upcoming indoor soccer season at the Corvallis Sports Park is over. But for you soccer bullies there still might be some time for you to do the right thing and enter the correct league. Need to think it over? Here is a single word to consider.challenging
(chal⋅leng⋅ing)
–adjective
1. offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
2. stimulating, interesting, and thought-provoking: a challenging suggestion.
3. provocative; intriguing: a challenging smile. 
I'm really glad to see that there are a number of teams that are challenging themselves and moving up a division. I have a big "Yay!" for those teams and a loud "Boo!" for the soccer bullies.
Coed Rec
Boo: Outdoor Was Too Hard (apparently coed intermediate is too hard too)
Boo: Mr. Beaches
Yay: Glory Daze
Coed Intermediate Lower
Yay: Mojo
Yay: The Rookies
Coed Intermediate Upper
Yay: The Septopus
Yay: Rabbits (moving up at just 4-2)
Yay: Big Football Dynamite
Yay: Radical Effects (also moving up at 4-2)
Women's Intermediate
Boo: Mummies (MILB. mothers I like to boo)
Men's Competitive
Yay: Bruno (moving up despite the merry-go-round roster)
Yay: Wrecked-Em (where they belong but still a good example)
My Favorite Team Names:
Big Football Dynamite, FC Absoludicrous, Balls of Destiny (not related to San Fernando Valley produced film of the same name), CB4 (related to the Chris Rock film of the same name)
What do you think of the divisions at CSP? Are the teams generally the same level or does the wide range of levels reduce the overall playing experience? Why do some teams refuse to move up a league? Please share your comments with us.
Friday, November 14, 2008
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So you think the Mummies should go up a league? A session or two ago they were on par, and I believe still are on par with the rest of the the women's intermediate division. I've been playing women's intermediate for almost two years now and would be sad to see them go.
What are teams supposed to do when the park won't let them move up because of age restrictions? When we requested the park to let our team in a league where 2 of our players were too young, the park said don't put those players on the team. The entire purpose of the team is to play with those players. So we are stuck in Rec league again when we didn't want to be there.
I am not positive, but Mr. Beaches has the same problem I believe. I think they have a couple of players that don't meet the age requirements for moving up to intermediate.
Mid Valley Engraving.
Thanks for the comment Mid Valley Engraving.
Policies certainly have thier place. All good policies serve an underlying purpose. When that purpose begins to take a back seat to the policy itself issues like this arise.
I would guess the age policy was created to promote safety. I think a flexible business is able to alook to a particular situation and ask, "is this unsafe?" There is an opportunity here for a very personalized service. Something outsode the normal boundries of the business.
I dont know the right answer to that question for Mid Valley Engraving. I do know that a caring and intelligent human being can determine that answer better than a policy.
Mr. Beaches indeed is bound by the same policy. It is not our intention to play in a league where we can dominate our opponents. We do however have players that are not skilled enough to play at a higher level, players that are to young according to policy, and players that are more than skilled enough to play at a higher level.
I agree that an intelligent human being can determine the safety vs. ability answer better than a policy. However, the goal of the players on the Beaches team has always been to have fun. We try to make scoring opportunities for our lesser skilled players, we try to maintain a certain level of honor by not blowing out opponents that are clearly not as skilled, let our younger age limited players have more playing time than our higher skilled players and keep our higher skill leveled males in the goal.
I am sure that we could be competitive in a higher league and may be to skilled to play in the Rec league, believe me when I say we will move up as soon as some birthdays come around but for now, we are bound by policy. So no "BOO" to us. "BOO's" to the policy.
Thank you for sharing Mr. Beaches perspective with us. Has Mr. Beaches tried to explain their situation to the league management and ask for an exception? If yes, what was the reaction?
I had a chance to discuss this with the park and there was a very solid explanation given to me.
1) They offer 13-15 year old players a chance to play in adult leagues. It was explained to me that a lot of facilities do not offer this opportunity to younger players at all.
2) For insurance purposes they have very solid age limits for each league. I for one will not put the facility that I love to play at at any risk by asking for an exception. They used to give exceptions based on evaluation but were informed that this wasn't a good idea by the insurance company.
Overall I am fine with the rules as long as the teams we play understand the situation. As I explained before, we really try to make it fun for both teams. We may win most of the time but it isn't because we are trying to embarrass anyone. We just try to improve our younger as well as less experienced players.
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