coachbgb wrote:We have played in both. 5 years in the Sparkler and 6 years in the IDT. If you are into a big "show" with lots of Marketing,vendors,special events, Olympic players signing autographs, Pro exhibitions
Etc then the Fireworks/Sparkler is for you.
If your into College coaches at every game, top competition(PGF Level)) in every game, playing at the same fields every day so the colleges know where to find you then the IDT is for you.
At the sparkler we would see college coaches on occasion but they use like 20 different parks and most days we saw nil. At Boulder our girls will send out there info and the colleges will show up more often.
No entry fee at the IDT, free all star games and they even feed everybody before the all star games. Its really no Contest. The IDT is all about great softball.
Unfortunately it can take years to get in the IDT. My advice is to apply to both every year until accepted into the IDT. The overall experience in Colorado that week is amazing. For that week Denver/Boulder is the center of the Softball world and we love it.
Pale Rider wrote:coachbgb wrote:We have played in both. 5 years in the Sparkler and 6 years in the IDT. If you are into a big "show" with lots of Marketing,vendors,special events, Olympic players signing autographs, Pro exhibitions
Etc then the Fireworks/Sparkler is for you.
If your into College coaches at every game, top competition(PGF Level)) in every game, playing at the same fields every day so the colleges know where to find you then the IDT is for you.
At the sparkler we would see college coaches on occasion but they use like 20 different parks and most days we saw nil. At Boulder our girls will send out there info and the colleges will show up more often.
No entry fee at the IDT, free all star games and they even feed everybody before the all star games. Its really no Contest. The IDT is all about great softball.
Unfortunately it can take years to get in the IDT. My advice is to apply to both every year until accepted into the IDT. The overall experience in Colorado that week is amazing. For that week Denver/Boulder is the center of the Softball world and we love it.
Forgot to mention IDT is invite only...
Pale Rider wrote:coachbgb wrote:We have played in both. 5 years in the Sparkler and 6 years in the IDT. If you are into a big "show" with lots of Marketing,vendors,special events, Olympic players signing autographs, Pro exhibitions
Etc then the Fireworks/Sparkler is for you.
If your into College coaches at every game, top competition(PGF Level)) in every game, playing at the same fields every day so the colleges know where to find you then the IDT is for you.
At the sparkler we would see college coaches on occasion but they use like 20 different parks and most days we saw nil. At Boulder our girls will send out there info and the colleges will show up more often.
No entry fee at the IDT, free all star games and they even feed everybody before the all star games. Its really no Contest. The IDT is all about great softball.
Unfortunately it can take years to get in the IDT. My advice is to apply to both every year until accepted into the IDT. The overall experience in Colorado that week is amazing. For that week Denver/Boulder is the center of the Softball world and we love it.
Forgot to mention IDT is invite only...
PairOfAces wrote:Never been to either, but from what I can tell, Sparkler and Fireworks are run by Triple Crown Sports while IDT is its own entity. I have "heard" that IDT is more selective and thus may be a tougher tournament, but I'm not claiming that.
Spazsdad wrote:Just got back and I was surprised at the number of organizations with multiple teams entered. There were a couple in years past but not 3 teams from the same org. Of course all 3 went deep in the tournament so it's not like they just threw some slouches in the event.