Think they will go to the q if they stick together

No and no. That team will not be the top.

Aside from one or two highly ranked teams in the top division in each age group it was all the same “crap” as you call it in Buffalo. The 2010s had a top ranked team playing against higher ranked teams than the CCM elite division. The Buffalo Cup is now just a money maker too with 75 million divisions.

Buffalo was good. Played new teams and all games were competitive.

But you got killed.