Region 3 West Premier League

8/24 Sting 00 (Rezaie) vs TSC Harricane 00 (Richardson)
8/25 Sting 00 (Rezaie) vs NYSA Fury Green 00
8/24 Solar Chelsea Elite 00 (Pulp) vs NYSA Fury Green 00
8/25 Solar Chelsea Elite 00 (Pulp) vs TSC Harricane 00 (Richardson)

Anyone have Predictions?

Yeah, it's soccer season again!
What times are the above games?

8/24 Games are both at 8:00 a.m.
8/25 Games are at 9:45
All games are at RailRoad

NTX teams will win all 4.

the talent here is too strong for OK to compete against these clubs.

HMMM So far I'm correct.

Results?

I went out to get my soccer fix this morning. 

Solar game was 0-0 at the half.  I left at half to see the Sting game and I know Solar got scored on in the second half.  I'm thinking they loss 1-0.

However Sting won their game 1-0. They left several points on the field.  Could have been at least 3-0. Oklahoma had no shots on goal during the second half.

Solar won 2-1
Sting won 1-0

Solar won 2nd game 4-0
Sting won 1-0
Texas teams won all!!

bigfoot is an amazing prognosticator of what in many respects are arguably B team games.  Shocking someone would pick the two North Texas teams to beat the 3rd and 4th seed Oklahoma PLW teams.  OFC should give both Sting and Solar all they want.

The stated basis for his amazing prediction  -- “the talent here is too strong for OK to compete against these clubs” – is certainly not supported by  PLW history.  Blitz 98 Attack and Blitz 99 White did not lose a game in PLW Region 3 in their U14 years.

Perhaps it might have made sense if you had said: “with the enormous player pool size advantage North Texas has over Tulsa and OKC it is amazing that Oklahoma clubs have had success in North Texas in certain age groups” (99, 98 and 95 for example).

If your statement was not meant as an “everything’s bigger in Texas” generality, and only applies to the 2000 age group, August seems a bit early to reach such a conclusion.  Admittedly the 2000 talent in Oklahoma is spread out over 3-4 clubs in the state, and no “super team”  has formed in this age group.  Also, no comparison can be made without evaluating the ECNL results, as TSCH has an 00 ECNL team.  Again, OFC should do fine in PLW -- it remains to be seen how things will work out in this age group.