I am not the previous poster with information regarding the Wave but I can tell you about our Beach Bums experience with 2018 team. They played against/ with the Express girls at a few tournaments last summer. I can say the games were competitive and the Express team and the Beach Bum team in that age bracket had similar results against the same competitors. That being said I can speak of our family's overall experience with the Beach Bums team. My daughter grew as a player, we loved her coach and the director and there was an overall comfortable and encouraging feeling at all practices and games.