There are no tournaments that anyone values here. Not taking away from wins, but the bigger clubs (year over year successful big name clubs) place emphasis on tradition and knowing that if they pick 4-5 tournamnents they know they will have the best competition at Naptown, NLF, NAL, Crabfeast and a couple of others. Those tournaments all sell out with waiting lists and attract teams from coast to coast. And unfortunately, none of them are here. Maybe when we get some better facilities we could get an NLF part 1 here on the Island. And this exclusivity is what keeps some smaller clubs from being truly successful in the end. No one wants to travel to LI to play in a mylacrossetournament or a blatant event where it’s a gamble on which teams show up. the smaller clubs get squeezed out of the biggest tournaments that are invite only, and their players sometimes get peeled off as well. All a viscious cycle of follow the money. These clubs have created exclusive well known events that are now traditon, in turn they line the same pockets every year.
All decent points. However if you have a really talented team that is dominant they will get invited to these tournaments. A percent example is Legacy 2024 taz team. The rest of the club is all B teams. Taz was a top team and got invited to all those tournaments. Bottom line is if team is dominant it will get invited to all the top events.
