I've been impressed with a few teams: I seen the Thunder Elite 00 last year, they did not disappoint they are as good as advertised. 2 new to me teams I really like are the Wizards 00 Elite team, they are well coached and athletic, I also really like Fear Factor big, strong, athletic team that I got a 1st hand look at and they are also well coached and the head coach made adjustments and is an outstanding game manager. The 01 teams that have a shot IMO of running with the top 00 teams are the Storm 01, Stingray's-Mad Hornets lol, Laser-Green, Hawks 01 and Marion Diamonds-Orange. I'm sure there are many more really good 00 teams but these are the teams I've seen... So if I ranked the teams I've played against or seen play my top 10 would be:
1) Thunder Elite 00
2) Fear Factor
3) Classics 00
4) Wizards 00-Esienbrandt
5) Buckeye Heat 00
6) Storm 01
7) Laser Green
8) Stingrays-Gunter
9) Hawks 01
10) Marion Diamonds-Orange
This is just the teams I've seen play, I haven't seen Laser Orange or many of the other good 00 teams. So the more in tune 12u coaches would probably have a very different top 10, so please don't take this as a slight to any team.