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Cmon Knights,
Everything you say is true with the more experienced and older girls. Most of us all know the girls by know in the general area we are all from. Most of the top talent doesn't have to go to tryout there excepted on past ability or recruited to teams. But these decisions do go on in the younger and less experienced age groups. There are alot of girls that fit into these catagories with start up teams and tons of teams I've never even heard of before.
So if your heading to tryouts you are going without any prior knowledge of the team or organization? So your dad got you up one Saturday morning and says "hey lets drive over to _____ and see if they are holding softball tryouts then we'll head over to _____ and see if they are having tryouts." Don't know anything about them but who cares its travel ball!
If there are people actually doing this, even at the younger ages, then they deserve what they are getting. I know I was oblivious to travel when my first DD started, but I talked to people, got online (think that is when I joined OFC) and educated myself. Went to 1 tryout, was offerd a spot, and took it! Was the best thing that ever happened to my DD and I have the Late Tim Galligher to thank for it. God Rest Tim and the GFOD Thunder!!!