While everything people say is all true. But let's look at it this way. If playing on the best teams against the best teams wasn't important, we would all just play PAL. Whether this is all driven by parents, kids whatever, I think some kids/parents are driven by these mile stones / tryouts/ tourneys etc. whether it's Brine, warriors, under armour , etc etc. stick in hand is good. Unfortunately this is a complete rip off. No one needs a helmet, gloves, etc. brine is 400 all in. And you get 4 days. With games and practices