If you switch the date to Jan01 you still have freshman eligible to wrestle the division and you push more of the 7th graders in with 5th/6th graders. The only true fix is to move it to the next calendar Aug31
I was responding to this, read the whole thread....and my kid feels the same way about the competition element, I feel differently not because I want to lower the competitive level but because I don't think high schoolers belong in a kids division nor do I think there is any reason for a high school division at all at kids state but that is a topic for another thread. (probably feel that way because I grew up in our backwoods neighbor state Missouri, bunch of hillbillies over there think that their top 10 NCAA Div 1 program makes them special)
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