Mr. Monday! wrote:dadof4rbbm wrote:Mr. Monday! wrote:dadof4rbbm wrote:Really???????? somewhere between 70-90 teams showing up for a tournament and 5 people online having a bitchfest. It appears you are the minority not the majority "homey".
Bitch fest? Well hardly! Just a discussion amongst people here with some concerns. I don't see anyone getting out of hand.....Interesting that you opened an account just to comment on this thread...If you know the people who are commenting they have been around the game for a while. No one bashed your volunteers that put their hard work into into it. But obiviously you need look at your volunteer that does the pools next year so it doesn't happen again. I think you are taking this thread very untra sensitive to say the least! ie.. drag through the mud, we never move forward, bashing volunteers,.....it's all in your interpretation...easy to see that your volunteer TD abviously stuck all Nor Cal teams in one pool deliberately....
Plus if this was a free tourney I'm sure no one would have any concerns.
Mr. Monday: I have been around the game for 29 years and played it for 24 years. There is nothing interesting about opening an account and commenting. Isn't that what you did the first time you signed in, was make a comment. They are not MY volunteers, I just know that this tournament benefits girls like me who would not have had the opportunity to go to college without scholarship programs like this from ASA. The more haters that write information on forums like this bashing these kind of tournaments are the same people that will ruin it for all and have tournaments like these no longer exist. The only people that get hurt then are the countless number of youth that want a bright future. So yes I get steamed when people write that volunteers who give of their time to help youth not sit in front of their computers and just comment on it, get blamed for deliberately having teams play against each other. My answer to the problem would be this, you dont like it, dont come and keep your kid at home.
Hope you feel better now! Look at what happened to the 12's same thing....That benefits kids... You are right next year we will keep are arses at home. But you are all in it for kids? Telling us to stay home. Glad it benefited you... My comments and the ones made by the other people will never affect this tourney.. Heres a tissue Weeping Myrtle... Get a clue... You don't sound like you been in the game that long... But like you said you are in it for kids and what the tournament stands for....but you are telling us to stay home? Thanks next year we will...
Are you gonna make a decision to (not) attend a tourney next year based on the comments of some random unknown person on this forum, when this years tourney has yet to even begin? Sure, I get that traveling ALL the way down to SoCal just to play teams from our own back yard right out of the gate, sucks and is darn expensive. The thought crossed my mind also when the brackets first came out... I dunno, seemed to me that maybe, just maybe... they were doing something like the Fresno Force tourney (at least a couple years ago) where we played each other for seed placing, then got spread out in the elimination brackets where we wouldn't end up playing against each other for elimination (at least until closer to the end, assuming we each make it that far on Sunday
). What if your DD and her team end up making quite a show of it this year and take it to the end? Are you gonna still feel the same way? (I recall a NorCal team made it to the Finals last year in 12's if I'm not mistaken. Got their $'s worth for the trip, I bet)... Let's not all get overly emotional and say things we may later regret, at least until we see how the tourney plays out... Just my $0.02 ... With that, good luck to all the teams. Let's all have a fun, softball-filled weekend!
