Triple Crummy Big League Nightmare

[number19]

Okay, great job to all the teams that played this weekend in the 10u/14u TCS tournament in Cathedral City. However....

Paying for a hotel for two nights during Coachella's three day concert... $300

Making sure my 13 year old daughter and teammates weren't harrassed or influenced by the Coachella's drunk, high, hoochie, fighting knuckle heads at hotel.... 800 mg Tylenol

Waiting in line for really expensive food and drinks, served with sub-par customer service at Big League Dreams.... hours off my life and $200

Finding out 2 hours after the semi's that Triple Crown only reserved the fields long enough to accomodate perfectly timed games, which NEVER happens, and that the Championship game will end as Co-Champions because they only have 45 minutes to play..... WORTHLESS

[thetruth]

should have shopped around you got ripped off on the hotel, $79 for a nice one on priceline.

Girls shouldn't be swimming at a tourney anyway

Big league dreams has a big over head, sneak in food and water next time

co-champs..big deal meaningless tourney and you got home early


you got to hang out with your healthy dd and watch her play softball....priceless

[xxxYerOut]

Oh Damn - I missed Coachella?

[ice_67]

Wow, I didn't know you could reserve 14 rooms on priceline for $79 at a nice hotel. Going to have to try that one at the next meaningless tourney.

Hey #19, you forgot to mention the TSA like pat down/bag search at the front gate.

Should have scheduled your own friendly and you could have watched your DD play at home. Now that would have been "priceless".

[Slammer]

I don't think it was a meaningless tournament if you ask the girls, this is about the girls right? I understand it was pricey but this travel and haven't we learned that everything isn't cheap in travel. Triple Crown has always been the same and we always sign up to play cause there isn't anything else going on except for Friendlies. I think heat gave the girls a good experience of what to expect for up coming months.

I think there was two games that were really good and exciting and that was the Powersurge VS Firecrackers in Pool play that ended 2-1. And the Firecrackers VS Legacy game in brackets that went two innings of International Tie Breaker and ended 6-5 Firecrackers, very good game.

[mr.flamboyant]

[Scoop n K]

79.00 Hotel???? What were you smoking? Too much Coachella influence I'd say.

As mentioned in the OP, all of that was true...Very disturbing way to be treated. Other HUGE problem was field ASSignment. This tournament was and has been clearly billed with "All games played at BLD" on the front page. Great ! The why did my 14u team end up playing three games at Coachella High Schools GODZILLA field? This field was described best by the umpires as " horrible" It had grass growing up to the foul line on both sides and was a broken ankle waiting to happen. A definite safety HAZARD! Fortunately, none of the five girls I saw, who ended up taking a header ( from various teams) while running down the first base line was seriously hurt. Tournament only officials gave lame excuses for their false advertising. Games were fun and great for the girls, but paying a premium to play at BLD and stay in the area hotels, and then playing half your games on a S*&T field is unacceptable. TCS should be ashamed but, they wont be, because their bank account got fattened well this weekend.

[ca native]

Only way were going to fix this is not sign up for those tournaments. Last week the 12's had the samething just not all the drunk Coachlla fans.

[ice_67]

We played at the HS too. I've never seen a softball field or baseball field with full blown grass growing 1 inch from the foul line from batters box to first base. No safety base either. Plus the little gully(6 inches deep about foot wide) running in between 1st and 2nd base made for some interesting stumbles and bad hops.

But on the positive side, we didn't have to pay the $3 adult and $1 player entrance fee at the HS.

[artomatic]

I told you guys...
http://www.heybucket.com/viewtopic.php?f=401&t=13268&start=10