Originally Posted by Anonymous
Hogan's tournaments ARE very well organized. Hershey was great this year.

Summer Exposure had a lot of good programs. From hotbeds, Igloo, Legacy, Hawks, Bethesda, Breakers, Koopers, Greene Turtle, among others. From non-hotbeds, good programs from Texas, NC, MN and FL.

Hershey was more geographically diverse and plenty of teams from hotbeds, but, true, not AA teams. Makes sense that AA teams want to play each other. Bit of a chicken and egg problem, but Summer Exposure shows that they can easily add AA divisions. Hershey sure was great for us, a team from nowhere, to go play a bunch of hotbed and non-hotbed teams from bigger cities, versus winning a regional tournament. Plus regional tournaments don't seem to actually enforce age and grade rules like Hogan's.



Hogan seems to be taking the age thing seriously, good for them. As others have pointed out, very frustrating for normal teams to show up at a tournament and get blown out by an elite team or a team playing the age game.

At the end of the day this is a business for them, and if they can offer their customers a good product - fair competition - I'm sure they will do just fine. Everyone does not need to get steamrolled by Crush or deal with the Crabs holdbacks to feel like they had good competition.