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STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF PHOENIX FC:
Tonight we received a notification of Phoenix FC being re-aligned into the Oppilas conference. The board is, quite frankly, disappointed with this news, but will continue their participation in the Can-Am Premiership, albeit under protest. The board of Phoenix FC has complied with all directives of the CAP, and helped to ensure that other competitors follow these directives too. The news of this development is quite disheartening, considering we put together a bid that we believe was a) submitted quite early in the process, b) meets all guidelines and regulations as set out by the CAP and c) proudly and beautifully represents the beautiful region of the City of Phoenix, as well as the State of Arizona as a whole. The board has no intention of boycotting the competition, but would urge the CAP to reconsider this decision before the competition begins.
Also, the board would further like to add, with the revealing of the final Eliitti alignment, that we disagree with the admission of multiple clubs from one owner into the Eliitti, which we believes stifles the competition and does not help improve the quality of competition, but rather smothers and quashes it.
I completely understand the disappointment, and it was not an easy thing for me to do, but Andonis1997, Greater Gattsby and myself all believed that moving the clubs selected was the best move for them to give each team a fair chance in the competition, and to stop the potential of clubs going 16-0 or 0-16, this may still happen to clubs, but the aim was to try and even out the competition to give everyone the strongest chance of making the finals.
Without giving out too much information, it was a tight vote for most clubs that were considered, with 2/3 being the most common vote for each team (so one of us did not agree with the others) but majority rule was applied.
And trust me when you see the quality of the designs across the competition you will understand how close it was for some teams to be in either conference.
Also doing this now stops what happened in other competitions with teams being switched mid season.