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CHC Season Ending Jamborees & Tournaments

How Tournament Placements are Determined for Youth 8U to 14U and Which Teams Move on to Regionals

For 8U Mites: All interested Mite teams will play in Jamborees at locations across the state. The organization hosting the Jamboree can determine which Mite team from their organization will play at their location. Every effort is made to place teams in jamborees considering travel distances and competitive level of participating Mite teams. Placements will be very good, but not perfect.


For 10U Squirts: CT Hockey Ratings at CTHockeyRatings.com will be used to place the teams.

  • There are no 10U Tier 1 CHC Tournaments.
  • Teams ranked 1 thru 8 will be placed in the 10U Tier 2 CHC tournament. The 10U Tier 2 Champion and Runner Up will go to the 10U Tier 2 Regional Tournament.
  • Teams ranked 9 thru 20 (12 Teams) will be placed in the Tier 3 CHC tournament. The 10U Tier 3 Champion and Runner Up will go to the 10U Tier 3 Regional Tournament.
  • Teams ranked 21 thru 32 (12 Teams) will be placed in the Tier 4 CHC State Championship Tournament.
  • All remaining teams will be placed in tournaments at host locations. The hosting organization will select a team from their organization to participate in that tournament and CHC will place the remaining teams based on competitiveness and geography as much as possible.

To get team placement go to CTHockeyRatings.com, select ratings, search on 2023-2024 Season, Select Squirt age group, Select Tier 4, then Process selection.


For 12U PeeWees: CT Hockey Ratings at CTHockeyRatings.com will be used to place the teams.

  • There are no 12U Tier 1 CHC Tournaments.
  • Teams ranked 1 thru 8 will be placed in the 12U Tier 2 CHC tournament. The 12U Tier 2 Champion and Runner Up will go to the 12U Tier 2 Regional Tournament.
  • Teams ranked 9 thru 20 (12 Teams) will be placed in the Tier 3 CHC tournament. The 12U Tier 3 Champion and Runner Up will go to the 12U Tier 3 Regional Tournament.
  • Teams ranked 21 thru 32 (12 Teams) will be placed in the Tier 4 CHC State Championship Tournament.
  • All remaining teams will be placed in tournaments at host locations. The hosting organization will select a team from their organization to participate in that tournament and CHC will place the remaining teams based on competitiveness and geography as much as possible.

To get team placement go to CTHockeyRatings.com, select ratings, search on 2023-2024 Season, Select PeeWee age group, Select Tier 4, then Process selection..


For 14U Bantams Tier 1 & 2: Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams will be declared by the team’s organization in the June/July timeframe prior to the season.

  • The declared Teams will play against each other during the year for placement in the State Championship Tournament.
  • In the 2023-2024 season, 4 organizations declared Tier 1 teams and 5 organizations declared Tier 2 teams.  Each team is required to play every other team in their division two times. Therefore, Tier 1 teams will have 6 required games and Tier 2 teams will have 8 required games. Those results will determine rankings.  
  • For Tier 1, all four teams will advance to the CHC Tournament if they fulfill their game requirements. The 14U Tier 1 Champion will go to the 14U Tier 1 Regional Tournament. Some years CT gets more than one team placement.
  • For Tier 2, all five teams will advance to the CHC Tournament if they fulfill their game requirements. The 14U Tier 2 Champion will go to the 14U Tier 2 National Tournament. There is no 14U Regional Tournament.


For the remaining 14U teams: they will be ranked by CTHockeyRatings.com.

  • Teams ranked 1 thru 12 will be placed in the 14U Tier 3 CHC tournament. The 14U Tier 3 Champion will go to the 14U Tier 3 Regional Tournament.
  • Teams ranked 13 thru 24 (12 Teams) will be placed in the 14U Tier 4 CHC State Championship Tournament.
  • All remaining teams will be placed in tournaments at host locations. The hosting organization will select a team from their organization to participate in that tournament and CHC will place the remaining teams based on competitiveness and geography as much as possible.

To get team placement go to CTHockeyRatings.com, select ratings, search on 2023-2024 Season, Select Bantam age group, Select Tier 4, then Process selection.


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