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Tier I, II & III have been used for years in many sports to describe different levels of play in a defined jurisdiction, this terminology works well but starts to break down when different areas come to be compared at a tournament. AAA, AA & A, classifications are not meant to replace "Tiers" where they exist and make sense.
AAA is the top level of play anywhere, a AAA team enters Tournaments without worrying about being outclassed by "stacked" teams or superior competition - they are supposed to BE the superior competition.
AA teams are the next level of competition, they are probably the second team of a large urban Club or the first team from a medium sized centre.
A teams are the next step and are likely the "Travel or Rep" team from a small centre.
EXCEPTIONS do exist, a couple of which are the ODMHA (Ottawa, Ontario area) and the Province of Quebec. In both cases the top level of competition is designated AA locally but AAA when they compete outside of their own area. We attempt to translate their classifications to everyone else's when listing their events but we suggest you ask questions when dealing with their contact people.

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