The point that I was unfortunately unsuccessful in making is that there should be a differentiation in a select level A and B if there isn't already.
Our team was classified as B but played both an A and a B schedule. We won a few birth's. (Did not "Win" a single tournament) all were in B. Had fun playing in some "elite" tournaments that as always the top 10 teams won, all in hopes of improving and possibly moving up to A in the future when we were true 14's.
In the B tournaments that we did play, there were teams that were very good, I truely can not remember one "REC" team in any of the tournaments that we played in.
I also was not trying to "Anger" anyone, but not everyone can be on the top 10 teams...(the one's that I would consider to be "elite") Whether it be time, money, or just sheer skill level.
My daughter has played with both "types" of teams, and although frustrating on B at times, it is even more frustrating to lose every game if your team is placed "over their heads" in a tournament every weekend. I do agree however, to get better you must play the best.
With that being said...there really needs to be 2 levels of Select level tournaments. And if the REC teams want to travel, then they can do so in B against the less experienced travel teams, or play in the REC ALL STAR tournaments.