My best guess:

Cheetahs Connolly and Silver Hawks McNulty won the winners bracket bids. Looks like Silver Hawks are signed up for PGF Midwest so likely aren’t using the bid. That frees up a bid. No idea if Connolly is going to go to PGF or Alliance nationals.

It was a million degrees on Saturday, so assume they decided to not play the end of the losers bracket.

Tamborra, Sparks, Malito, and Baer were left in the losers bracket. All would be competitive in Premier if they go to Huntington Beach. So makes sense for those teams to get bids as long as the space is available.

18U is really strong this year. Lots of very good teams in this area.

From what I’ve seen, Velocity National might be the best.