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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than all the negative reviews and the wonderful weather, sounds like an awesome thing to do[/quote]

I was there last year and it was a well-run tourney and top notch competition. Yes it was crazy hot. That was the worst part. Fields and ref quality were good.

I’m guessing some of the negative reviews are from teams that didn’t do well. Most DMV teams did not last year. We played multiple top 10 teams in the country (according to soccer rankings app) and we did well, exceeding expectations. Our team had a great experience.

Success at SuperCopa isn’t as black and white as typical tournaments. Group play places you in 8-team tiers of knockout brackets (SuperCopa, Gold, Silver, etc.). You can lose all your group games and then you get in the easiest knockout group. That bottom group may only have 4 or 6 or whatever number teams based on how many are left after the higher groupings of 8. One of those will “win” and one will be “runner up” but there’s at least 24 if not 32 or 40 ahead. Still it’s a nice consolation I guess.

On the flip side, you can go undefeated in group play and your reward is the SuperCopa bracket. Those are the best of the best, but half those teams will get knocked out in the round of 8 and be done early. Another two will lose in the semis and not place. So many of the best teams in the country get knocked out early because it works this way.

The Gold bracket is also loaded, generally with teams who came in 2nd of 4 in group although it’s a point system so it’s possible for an exception (ie three from a group make it and only one from another group). It goes down from there. The lowest knockout bracket is generally made up of teams that lost all their games in group play, some by a lot and not scoring any or perhaps a goal.

So no, I don’t think it’s a poor tournament, though I can see why people think that if you go down and don’t win a game.  Your experience gets instantly better if you can hang with or knockout some of the best teams in the country from California and Texas, for example, that you wouldn’t typically have the opportunity to compete against. [/quote]

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