oakdale deserves better. Niwot should have been snubbed for their nxr southwest results
Oakdale had a great top 4, but their 5th runner has been inconsistent, and they didn’t really have a great 6th / 7th to back him up. The committee probably saw that as a red flag. That’s the kind of team structure that Rocky Mountain ID had last year which could also explain why they weren’t chosen last year.
I guess they chose a deeper team (Niwot) over Oakdale
A teams deepness is the most overrated quality I think there is. Was the nxn committee choosing teams based on who would win if all the 5s had a bad day or got hurt? They’re the top 5 on that team for a reason, and should be ranked and chosen as such. The truth is the 5 for Oakdale wasn’t as fast as some of the other cali teams, but that top 5 still got 3rd at Clovis, still had a faster team time than great oak (qualifiers), and still had a near identical power merge score as great oak. Great oak surely deserved to go, but so did the 14th best cali team ever.
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