May - Aug 2013 Tournaments for 03's - Complete List with Teams

Shawnee Trail is up to 12 teams. Accepted list is now posted.

STING NORTH 03G (GARRETT)
STING CENTRAL 03G (PARKER)
STING 03G (GOODMAN)
SOLAR CHELSEA 03G BLACK
SOLAR CHELSEA ARMSTRONG 03
MUSTANGS FC 03 BUSSEY
FUSION FC 03G
FC PREMIER
ETUFC UNITED
DALLAS TEXANS MORENO '03
DALLAS TEXANS ACADEMY 04 SCOTT
BIG COUNTRY SA ASA 03 GIRLS

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Talk about home field advantage. The local club hosting the tournament has their teams "GSSC Blue and Black" playing 3 games on 3 different days while FC Dallas, Sparta, and DT all have to play three games in one day starting at 8am. You would think they could be a little less obvious.

http://events.gotsport.com/events/schedule.aspx?EventID=30077&GroupID=288355&Gender=Girls&Age=10

Let's be honest though DDx3, they could have them playing their games three weeks apart and it's probably not going to matter, Sting West is going to win that pool baring a colapse. I am intrigued though with the way the brackets are set up, obviously head to head won't be a factor if there are tiebreakers.

On paper it should be Sting West vs FCD Premier in the finals but both of these teams seem to play to their competition so maybe someone could upset one of them but I doubt it.

I thought Vitesse 03 was now FWFC or is this a new Vitesse team?

Updated with current info

any uupdates?

Whats the latest update for teams signed up for the 2013 Texas Lightning Puma Cup and King Tut?

List of applied teams
Puma: http://www.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.asp?eventid=32528&showall=true
Tut: http://www.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.asp?eventid=28917&showall=true

Joe scafone wrote:List of applied teams
Tut: http://www.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.asp?eventid=28917&showall=true

What does it mean when the King Tut has "declined" next to a team name?  Did the tournament decline the team?  If so - why?  Money?  Spite?

I'm sure they probably just entered credit card info wrong or something like that.

Or a team opted with withdraw after realizing QT starts just one day after King Tut finishes this year...

Dunno why LHGCL decided to start on Tuesday this year, but only allowing girls a single day to recover in Texas heat for QT isn't enough imo.

mackgee wrote:Or a team opted to withdraw after realizing QT starts just one day after King Tut finishes this year...  

Dunno why LHGCL decided to start on Tuesday this year, but only allowing girls a single day to recover in Texas heat for QT isn't enough imo.

OK, makes sense to me now.  The team declined the tournament not the other way around.  Thanks for the info.

Should be a good tournament. Still a few more hours I guess for some teams to register. Guess the top teams are sitting this one out, can't say I blame them with their being such a quick turn around time from the end of the tournament to start of qualifying.

Some teams are goin to be worn out.

Interesting...

So far, no sign of the following teams in either King TUT or Puma Cup...

SRSA
DT South
LP Elite
Fever (are they or aren't they playing King TUT)
FWFC Black
LP Barnes
Cosmos
DT South B-E
GSSC Thunder

Not sure I remember that many consensus top 30 teams skipping the tune-ups heading into QT the past couple of years, and definitely don't remember 3 consensus top 10 teams (let alone top 5 teams) skipping the tune-ups.  Possibly some off-the-radar friendlies being set up???   

Of course, Puma Cup still has another week, and outside of LP Elite and Cosmos, I think all of these teams are from the South or West, so a bunch of these teams could still show up at Puma.

bwgophers wrote:Interesting...

So far, no sign of the following teams in either King TUT or Puma Cup...

SRSA
DT South
LP Elite
Fever (are they or aren't they playing King TUT)
FWFC Black
LP Barnes
Cosmos
DT South B-E
GSSC Thunder

Not sure I remember that many consensus top 30 teams skipping the tune-ups heading into QT the past couple of years, and definitely don't remember 3 consensus top 10 teams (let alone top 5 teams) skipping the tune-ups.  Possibly some off-the-radar friendlies being set up???   

Of course, Puma Cup still has another week, and outside of LP Elite and Cosmos, I think all of these teams are from the South or West, so a bunch of these teams could still show up at Puma.

they are ducking the tournament, wouldn't want to suffer any embarassing defeats now would we ?

Yes, that's what DTS, SRSA, and LP elite are doing, ducking competition. I mean the last time DTS played in the 03 division they won the tournament with Elite, Sting G, FCD Gold, FCD Prem and Def. Hillard so clearly they are afraid.

SRSA, well I think we all know that they are scared of everyone in the 03 division. Well besides the ones they recently destroyed in their only 03 tournament of the summer.

Elite is obviously scared too, after winning TGPL Gold, finishing 2nd to DTS in a Primetime tournament and then winning the Kyle Owens Tournament a couple weeks ago they too are afraid.

I guess to the victors goes the spoils. Prove yourself over the last 6 months and more recently the summer then you don't need to play 3 straight days before qualifying starts.

Cosmos and FWFC Black are now on the King Tut list.

http://www.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.asp?eventid=28917&showall=true

I understand Fever is also pulling out of Tut.
I think that with QT following so closely behind Tut and Puma we will see more teams, particularly those who are not concerned about their rankings going into QT (I am not making any such claims about the Fever team) pull out to avoid fatigue and injury prior to the QT.
I was talking to a dad of a DD on SRSA and that was the explanation he gave me that had been given to him by the coach or manager. Seems reasonable to me, but as my moniker implies, I am still just treading water trying to figure all this out.
I heard somewhere else that the fields in Frisco where Tut is being held do not allow anything to be driving into the ground so tents and awnings are a bit of a challenge for Tut. I am just spreading rumors as I have not spoken to anyone that I know to be an authority, but anecdotally, I can see the stars lining up for more teams to drop out before its over.

I can understand SRSA not participating. But for the rest....in the words of Tim Tebow, "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." It will be interesting to see if the extra rest for some is helpful or not. We'll see.

Well in the words of an even more famous athlete, Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Assuming these three teams played in this tournament you'd have to believe that all three would make it through pool play and probably to the semi's so now you are talking about playing 3 to 6 games possibly in oppressive heat on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Then as your reward, you get to turn around on Tuesday and start qualifying, while all these other teams that never make it out of pool play when these teams are in a tournament are home by Saturday resting. Yipee!

Now if it were me I'd set up scrimmages with older teams and boys that will make the girls work harder than if they played in King Tut or Puma and also allow you to have a better control of when and how many games your team gets to play. So I guess it could be that not playing in King Tut or Puma for certain teams could actually end up meaning they are the ones working harder and smarter.

FCostanza wrote:Well in the words of an even more famous athlete, Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Assuming these three teams played in this tournament you'd have to believe that all three would make it through pool play and probably to the semi's so now you are talking about playing 3 to 6 games possibly in oppressive heat on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Then as your reward, you get to turn around on Tuesday and start qualifying, while all these other teams that never make it out of pool play when these teams are in a tournament are home by Saturday resting.  Yipee!

Now if it were me I'd set up scrimmages with older teams and boys that will make the girls work harder than if they played in King Tut or Puma and also allow you to have a better control of when and how many games your team gets to play. So I guess it could be that not playing in King Tut or Puma for certain teams could actually end up meaning they are the ones working harder and smarter.

TUT is a 4 game friendly format.

GrandTXSoccer wrote:Yes, that's what DTS, SRSA, and LP elite are doing, ducking competition. I mean the last time DTS played in the 03 division they won the tournament with Elite, Sting G, FCD Gold, FCD Prem and Def. Hillard so clearly they are afraid.  

SRSA, well I think we all know that they are scared of everyone in the 03 division. Well besides the ones they recently destroyed in their only 03 tournament of the summer.

Elite is obviously scared too, after winning TGPL Gold, finishing 2nd to DTS in a Primetime tournament and then winning the Kyle Owens Tournament a couple weeks ago they too are afraid.

I guess to the victors goes the spoils. Prove yourself over the last 6 months and more recently the summer then you don't need to play 3 straight days before qualifying starts.

sorry no dice, no top team wants to suffer a loss this close to qt, you are naive if you think otherwise....

btw i think that the tuesday qt is overblown, they are just padding their time so they can use that week if they have to, qt will be on the weekend most likely as it has always been.

Well if your team was a top team maybe you would have the option to sit out a tournament, unfortunately you don't. Don't forget your sunscreen.

Seriously, you are the naive one if you think one of those teams would lose a game to someone that would be considered a bad loss. I think combined those teams have lost maybe 2 (could be one) games in the past 6 months. There is absolutely nothing for those teams to gain in playing. But yes, that weekend could be the one weekend that all the stars aligned and someone outside the Top 5 beats one of those teams. Which would make exactly zero difference in the seeding for qualifying. I'd personally be more worried about getting your team out of pool play vs whether or not some other team is playing in a tournament or not. However that's just me.

Let the airing of grievances commence!

FCostanza wrote:Well if your team was a top team maybe you would have the option to sit out a tournament, unfortunately you don't. Don't forget your sunscreen.

Seriously, you are the naive one if you think one of those teams would lose a game to someone that would be considered a bad loss. I think combined those teams have lost maybe 2 (could be one) games in the past 6 months. There is absolutely nothing for those teams to gain in playing. But yes, that weekend could be the one weekend that all the stars aligned and someone outside the Top 5 beats one of those teams. Which would make exactly zero difference in the seeding for qualifying. I'd personally be more worried about getting your team out of pool play vs whether or not some other team is playing in a tournament or not. However that's just me.

Let the airing of grievances commence!

gee thanks for your second post.pardon me if i discount your expertise since you didn't even know how many games are played in the king tut and since i doubt you are on or even know anyone who actually seeds teams, i will discount your expertise on that too....

Notice I mentioned both the King Tut and Puma so that's why I used the numbers 3-6 games, the number 4 falls between those two numbers. If I need to get you some flash cards to help you with your numbers I can look into getting some. The Puma Cup, at least according to the website, is an advancement tournament unless there aren't enough teams then it's simply a pool play tournament. So in order to save time I lumped both tournaments into my potential games pool.


So if you want to discount what I'm saying, great, I don't care. If you want to try to find something smart to say to discredit what I said, great I look forward to your first smart post SP.

FCostanza wrote:Notice I mentioned both the King Tut and Puma so that's why I used the numbers 3-6 games, the number 4 falls between those two numbers. If I need to get you some flash cards to help you with your numbers I can look into getting some. The Puma Cup, at least according to the website, is an advancement tournament unless there aren't enough teams then it's simply a pool play tournament. So in order to save time I lumped both tournaments into my potential games pool.


So if you want to discount what I'm saying, great, I don't care. If you want to try to find something smart to say to discredit what I said, great I look forward to your first smart post SP.

There are plenty of "top teams" playing the King Tut and will most likely benefit from good seeds at QT.

But in the case of SRSA, LP Elite, DTS it does not matter if they were all seeded dead last at QT, they will come out on top. They will get better work training and scrimmaging within rather than attending a tournament.

Its really not that complicated.

Now, Fever and other 10-20ish teams not attending? I will keep my "ducking competition" thoughts to myself on that topic...

herradura wrote:

FCostanza wrote:Notice I mentioned both the King Tut and Puma so that's why I used the numbers 3-6 games, the number 4 falls between those two numbers. If I need to get you some flash cards to help you with your numbers I can look into getting some. The Puma Cup, at least according to the website, is an advancement tournament unless there aren't enough teams then it's simply a pool play tournament. So in order to save time I lumped both tournaments into my potential games pool.


So if you wanjt to discount what I'm saying, great, I don't care. If you want to try to find something smart to say to discredit what I said, great I look forward to your first smart post SP.

There are plenty of "top teams" playing the King Tut and will most likely benefit from good seeds at QT.

But in the case of SRSA, LP Elite, DTS it does not matter if they were all seeded dead last at QT, they will come out on top. They will get better work training and scrimmaging within rather than attending a tournament.

Its really not that complicated.

Now, Fever and other 10-20ish teams not attending? I will keep my "ducking competition" thoughts to myself on that topic...

Could not agree more!