It’s “lightly regarded” because your team is not participating? This definitely one of top 3-4 tournaments this year.
That could be part of it, but I think it has more to do with it only being a single age group or 2 age groups for 2021. Much more exciting to be at a larger tourney where there are top teams, but also get to cheer on other ages from your club, hang out with them before and after games etc. They try and hype it up a lot with regional qualifiers, but every decent team qualifies and it loses even more luster when you have teams dropping out and others added without even qualifying. Many tournaments can be described as a money grab, but this takes it to the extreme imo.
