If you really wanted a true championship, do it in Philly which is equidistant for everyone. Instead, doing it all the way in Colorado shows it's a money grab. 2-3 good teams and the rest cannot compete with the best of the East Coast.
The worst thing was the Team 88+3 2020 team that kept kids on the bench in a blowout win on national TV. Those parents paid good money like the rest of them. But even though they were up by 10 in the 4th quarter, kids were kept off the field and not in the game. Totally lame, like this tournament.
It already exists and its called the Millon tournament
That Millon Rising 8th Grade Championship in MD was the biggest lax farce I experienced. Wont let my younger boys go. Teams grab top players from any place they can, eams pull in 9th graders, one coach inserted older brother going into 10th because "otherwise we couldn't field a team", stuff like that. Team from TX, OH, IL view it as a summer trip they must win so they just stack teams in shady ways. That tourney is all that is wrong with lax. No regulations, no controls and outright cheating.
