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Just dropped a several hundred bucks and a entire fri-sat sun worth of time to play in an indoor tourney with 1 hour time limit games . Fort Wayne to be exact, but NOT picking on the doom per se just any indoor tourney with 1 hr game times. So we go 2-2 on the weekend. We play a total 4 hours . 4 games 1 hour each. one of the games ends 16-0. I think it would be fair to say our kids did'nt get a whole lot out of that one.
So my brain got rolling and I thought "OK, our families spent at least 350 bucks X 11 players plus the entry fee for the team" Thats over 4 grand. We could have rented ANY indoor facilty in ohio , invited 2-3 solid teams over and done entire days worth of games. We could play 4-6 games. Heck if you split the cost between the 2-4 teams you spend a ton less than the 4 grand the team and families spent. More importantly you control the environment. Want to stop to teach a girl something ? Go for it. Want to see how your kids react to certain situation ? Go for it .
The bottom line I guess is why do we keep signing up for 1 hour time limit tournies ? They charge a bunch and you get very little game time for the investment. I know facilities need to make a profit , I'm a small business guy. So what is everyone else's opinion ?
or to phrase in another way --should we be moving towards less tournies and more "friendlies" as our friends to the west call them ? a DH with some of our own local competetion on sunday with 6-7 inning games would have been just as, or more , informative . Or maybe I'm just pizzed because we did'nt win it ? thoughts ? MD
So my brain got rolling and I thought "OK, our families spent at least 350 bucks X 11 players plus the entry fee for the team" Thats over 4 grand. We could have rented ANY indoor facilty in ohio , invited 2-3 solid teams over and done entire days worth of games. We could play 4-6 games. Heck if you split the cost between the 2-4 teams you spend a ton less than the 4 grand the team and families spent. More importantly you control the environment. Want to stop to teach a girl something ? Go for it. Want to see how your kids react to certain situation ? Go for it .
The bottom line I guess is why do we keep signing up for 1 hour time limit tournies ? They charge a bunch and you get very little game time for the investment. I know facilities need to make a profit , I'm a small business guy. So what is everyone else's opinion ?
or to phrase in another way --should we be moving towards less tournies and more "friendlies" as our friends to the west call them ? a DH with some of our own local competetion on sunday with 6-7 inning games would have been just as, or more , informative . Or maybe I'm just pizzed because we did'nt win it ? thoughts ? MD