The once-powerful Cal South Soccer Association (formerly Cal Sout Youth Soccer Association before they took over the bankrupt adult association a few years back) is being hacked apart by local leagues. CYSA has long been one of USYSA's biggest members. Now a rival association. SoCal Soccer, sanctioned by USSF through US Club Soccer that operates in parallel with USYSA, is tempting clubs and teams away. SoCal has a State Cup integrated into its schedule, with the winner playng the US Club Soccer's Northern California champions for a true statewide championship at all ages. Cal South is continuing with their own State Cup, claimed once to be the largest youth tournament in the world (will this tsill be true?) with winners at several levels and ages competing in USYSA's Regional and National playoffs FOr many years I heard rumors and followed the Cal South meeting minutes. There were hints of behind-the-scenes ineptitude and intrigue, but I b=never put much store in them, thinking that if it were worth pursuing, then the likely parties would do something. http://socalsoccerleague.org/ https://calsouth.com/
PA West seems to have gone through a similar thing. US Club appeared, a couple of clubs registered. Then the youth team affiliated with our USL team went US Club and then ECNL when a bunch of girls ECNL teams left for the USSF GIrls DA. Now that team is ECNL, and their east branch is in an NPL iirc; the previous big dog has settle on MLSNext/GAL, then an NPL, then USYS regional, then USYS state; the other big club seems to ge GAL, NPL, USYS Regional, USYS state, the rest of the clbs seems to span NPLs and USYS regionals, US Youth State. If anything it seeme to encourage the more successful select clubs to buy/merge with smaller p2p clubs to ring the city (so now you have bigclub-south, bigclub-north, bigclub-west) and offer more teams per age group. The state used to limit them to 2, but now with all the extra sanctions they can have many. In short it all seems to work out, money is made, mid level hotels are visited every weekend, uno's chicago pizza gets reservations for 40, etc.