MJWalker45 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2022/llbws/news/opening-matchups-set-for-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-little-league-baseball-world-series/ The Little League World Series returns in August and they've expanded the field to 20 teams, with 4 teams getting byes in the tournament. New regions for the United States are Metro and Mountain. Panama has already punched their ticket for the tournament, and they and Puerto Rico are direct entries into the tournament now, no longer playing in the Latin America and Caribbean competitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 To add more context to what @MJWalker45 is talking about... Three years ago, Little League decided to expand the field from 16 teams to 20 teams. This means two new regions for both the United States and for the World... COVID-19 threw a giant sized monkey wrench into these plans, which explains why you have this now introduced. On the U.S. side, there are two new regions: The Metro Region (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island) and the Mountain Region (Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming). This realignment creates 6 regions with 4 states in them, 1 region (Great Lakes) with 5 states in it and the remaining three regions (Midwest, Southeast and Southwest) with 8 states in them (Southwest having two teams from Texas, of course). On the international side, three new regions are involved in a rotation format. This season sees the introduction of the Panama Region and the Puerto Rico Region. The other nation involved in this rotation, Cuba, is part of the Caribbean Region this year. The rotation format will see these three nations have their own region in two of those three years with one year for a nation to be part of a larger region (Cuba and Puerto Rico being in the Caribbean Region and Panama being in the Latin America Region). Next season sees Cuba and Panama having their own regions while Puerto Rico will have to wait until 2024 before getting their own region again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMU Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 I can't say that I'm liking the concept of random byes. Especially having to explain that to kids. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian in Boston Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Rhode Island and Connecticut not playing in the New England region is asinine, particularly the Ocean State. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 20 hours ago, LMU said: I can't say that I'm liking the concept of random byes. Especially having to explain that to kids. Agreed, I was trying to figure out how the byes were decided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 20 hours ago, Brian in Boston said: Rhode Island and Connecticut not playing in the New England region is asinine, particularly the Ocean State. Two regions playing simultaneously at the same complex is pretty strange too. San Bernardino will host the Mountain and Northwest Regions at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 Softball chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.littleleague.org/downloads/2022-llsws-uniform-distribution-guidebook-2022/ Junior League chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.littleleague.org/downloads/jlbws-uniform-distribution-guidebook-2022/ Breakdown of who's wearing what this year. The sleeves have a pattern of the continents on them and have been used by all of the other Little League tournaments. The boys wear white pants and the girls wore black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 On 6/17/2022 at 1:55 PM, MJWalker45 said: Two regions playing simultaneously at the same complex is pretty strange too. San Bernardino will host the Mountain and Northwest Regions at the same time. I assume that the tournament format change forced some sites to double up this year with plans hopefully to find more local sites starting 2023. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 Just now, TBGKon said: I assume that the tournament format change forced some sites to double up this year with plans hopefully to find more local sites starting 2023. I think it's just the fact those facilities are supporting the same number of teams, but in two separate tournaments now. Finding a place with the necessary hotels, restaurants and support facilities outside of these locations may be a bit more difficult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Also, just realized Colorado and New Mexico are in the Southwest region. With the new addition of the Mountain region, it makes me wonder if CO and NM will move there at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynasty Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 A region getting to have a bye for no apparent reason is not only stupid, but unfair. Hopefully they can do some adjustments to the bracket down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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