Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
WSYL schedules up. What are peoples thoughts?
I think that most people are not thrilled to go. Even though we qualified most people I have spoken with question having to give up an entire week of work and the expenses related to an average tournament in DC. We did it in Denver for my oldest in the first ever year and it was a great experience, although outrageously expensive. This year some very non competitive local teams made it and the power programs are not attending due to age.
The age reason is legit and was a tough decision for some. Many of the non-attending teams could field great on age squads, but you don't want to break up training for grade based programs for one tourney that people don't care much about. My son is on age, but 5 on his teammates are not (4 august and one july bday...4 stared kindergarten late and one repeated K) so his squad is not attending. They could have easily brought up 5 kids from the 26s and not lost anything talent-wise but then you mess up practices for all the other summer tourneys as you need those kids to play in qualifiers and a couple other tourneys before WSYL.