Originally Posted by Anonymous
The tournament has a history of allowing older kids/teams to play down. I believe that BOTC had seen this complaint last year as well. This year the tournament allowed an older LI team into the wrong bracket but corrected it when BOTC called them out on it.
Yes, we did call them out. Remember that we had hard evidence that the situation occured in the 2012 edition of the tournament. Given that this is NOT a recommended BOTC Tournament, there is only so much effort that we can employ to protect the players and the teams that REFUSE to listen to our tournament recommendations.

Originally Posted by Anonymous
The tournament had NO registration booth, the directors were nowhere to be found, they did not require rosters or backup to rosters (their website said that teams must present rosters but they did not enforce it).
BOTC believes that the Chocolatetown Tournament (not to be confused with the Hershey LaxFest or the Hershey Shootout) might be a nice little local event, but to invest money in travel, hotels, and application fees for what is not a professionally handled tournament seems outlandish to us in the value-for-money category.

Originally Posted by Anonymous
The Flyers cheated, they played with older kids. The kids told other teams kids they were older and the parents talked about it. The Flyers had two teams that dominated U-9 A and B brackets, each team had 2-3 subs. Each team had 3-4 kids that were not only a foot taller than every other kid on the field but also skilled in lacrosse like a 5th grader. If every kid on Flyers is U-9, then they could put together the best U-9 team in the country by far bar none and would have 4-5 kids on that team that are the best U-9 players in the country, and I am talking about better than anyone on Smash, Igloo, Express and better than the U-9 player on Crush that we all know.
BOTC did all of the detective work that we can afford to do on this crazy little tournament at this point. When we say that you should patronize the tournaments that are advertising with BOTC because we have confirmed contacts to address your concerns, you now understand why. Without tournament insurance or other protections, you are flying blind when choosing non-BOTC events.

Originally Posted by Anonymous
It was a blatant joke and it has been raised to the organizers and they have not responded. There is still time for them to do the right thing and investigate and assure everyone that this will never happen again or otherwise AVOID this tournament next year at all costs.
One year from now, the same debate will happen unless clubs and teams proactively learn from each other's experiences. This is now two years in a row that the parents have black-balled this tournament.

"Once a fool, shame on you. Twice a fool, shame on me."