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2003 World Series Reclassifications
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In 2003 after the World Series was completed, NAFA took on a major restructuring of team classifications for World Series play to address the compaction of teams at the top of the “A” World Series Tournament Standings. The goal was to add an A-Major Class between A(middle to lower ASA C teams) and AA(Middle to upper ASA B teams), the New Class of A-Major is described as (Upper ASA C teams and Lower ASA B teams). The Executive Committee felt that this restructuring and adding of the A-Major class would achieve several long term goals including 1) stopping the continuous sliding down of teams from class to class, 2) give a more fair bridge class for successful A teams instead of shocking them by moving them all the way to AA, 3) providing a place for good hitting teams without the stopper pitchers to be successful, and 4) to break up the very large size of the A Tournament (80 teams) into two weekends which would allow growth of both A and A-Major events to eventually grow to 64 teams(128 total) hence increasing the total number of teams that can participate in the world series while not compromising the quality of the event due to too large of a bracket and too many games for any one team to have to play over 4-5 days. After viewing the event, the NAFA Directors determined that the top 8 teams could compete in AA, the next 20 teams would form the new A-Major Class and the remaining 52 teams would form the A Class. The First ever A-Major World Series was held in Hutchinson, Kansas in 2004 and had 18 teams attend, in it’s second year in 2005 in Mankato, Minnesota 34 teams attended. In Appleton, Wisconsin in 2006 it is estimated that nearly 60 teams will attend the A-major event proving that the NAFA Directors once again are the leaders in the advancement of the sport and providing a great atmosphere for mens Fastpitch teams of all classes.
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