I agree PAL should be for everyone! I help coach my son's team. He is very skilled. There are other boys who aren't as skilled but love the game just as much as my son does. My boy wants to play with his friends. The kids he will be playing school ball with. He plays on a very good high profile travel team where he is on the higher end of the skill level and he loves it. I'm pretty sure if I told him that he had to give up one or the other, the travel team would go. While he has made many friends there they are not the boys that he spends his days with. He plays multiple sports with these same kids and wouldn't trade them for the world. For some of these kids being a part of a team and competing with their friends, win or lose, will be the highlight of their sports life. Let them ALL enjoy it.