Remember the US Soccer National Amateur Championship? It is a four-team tournament that takes four national amateur soccer champion teams and crowns one of them best of the best. Well, that's the principle.
Last year, you may remember, the tournament was contested by Maryland Bays (the reigning USASA Open Cup champs at the time), NY Greek Americans (USASA Amateur Cup champs), Michigan Bucks (PDL's 2014 champs), and Chattanooga FC.
And you may recall Chattanooga FC didn't win anything to get into the tournament; rather, the team lost the 2014 NPSL championship game to New York Red Bulls U-23s.