Good: Teams, Competition, friendliness of concession and gate workers, Ky Teams ruling each age bracket, TD working with the requests of several teams who had scheduling conflicts, ground crews worked diligently throughout the weekend to shine those turds called ball fields, adequate parking.
Bad: Lack of temporary fences-hate ballparks that arent for fastpitch-shortest fence appeared to be 225 ft, throw down bases-spiked or not, lack of bleachers on most fields, entry fee-priced as if this was a Showcase and/or qualifier and it was neither, lack of standings/scoreboard, most fields had a lip at infield/outfield. Saw a minimum of three times it be an issue when a hit careened off lip by outfielders, once almost hitting a girl in the face-dangerous!,DROP DEAD RULE!!! Horrible. Finish an inning. No justifiable excuse for this rule, EVER. Outfields on many fields had dips, holes, and were lakes on certain fields.
Ugly: Morning weather, cold and wet. The restrooms were the absolute worst I have ever seen or heard about. Nothing like standing in a cess pool. Heard many of the girls were having problems in the womens. They were NASTY, UNSANITARY. The ballpark was pretty much a dump but I do understand it is all relevant. If that's what you are used to......
There were some very good teams there. Would have been nice to see them play each other on fastpitch fields as there were several balls that would have been gone but when playing on adult fields...........
