I would never say this site itself is a disappointment. This site received millions of visitors a year. This site brings like minded people together but unfortunately most of these people are Lazy.
This site has created opportunities for everyone for over 24 years.
Tournament directors are lazy, yes I said it.
When was the last time you seen any tournament director do anything more then post their tournaments?
Tournament directors are lazy, when was the last time you seen a TD post results on the forum?
Tournament directors are Lazy, when the last time you seen a picture of the champs posted on the forum by a TD?
Nope that just plan laziness on any TD that can’t post at least the winner and runner-ups .
I’m not even sure why we have a tournament section. Wouldn’t it be better to just have a tournament list instead?
I agree with you on this. Last Fall, we had a tournament cancel on us so we threw a tournament together in a couple of weeks. This is my last post from that thread:
Thanks to everyone that came out to our tournament this past weekend. Alot of great softball on display. Coaches were great about rolling with the adjustments due to the morning showers on Sunday. Thanks to our field crew for getting the fields ready and letting us finish before dark.
Our Champions:
14U: JABC Riot 14U over Devils Fastpitch 06
12U: Ohio Outlaws '09 (Trbovich) over Ohio Emeralds 08 (Sirohman)
10U: Tallmadge Force Gray (Ickes) over Stark County Terriers
It is very tough to find information of various tournaments. Some scores you can find on gamechanger, tourneymachine, hosts website, Twitter, or the sanctioning body's website. Worse, some scores you can't find anywhere. I wish that this website was used as a dumping ground for every score from every tournament. I'm not crazy enough to believe it will happen but there could be a push to get TDs to post them on here.
I would also like to see coaches post their scores/schedules on here...even if they didn't win a game. I enjoy the 12U and 10U coaches polls because coaches do post their past results.
It gets trickier with talking about players, especially at the younger ages but it would be nice to see coaches talking about an opponent that did really well against them. Even promoting one of their own players that had an unusually good week. They don't even have to name the player, just say pitcher from ABC and catcher from XYZ...