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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's getting worse.

Stay-to-play is just another way for clubs to shift costs to families.  Big clubs could unite and object to stay-to-play requirements that don't make sense, but there is no incentive for them to object, since the costs are paid by the families.  Same thing for rising uniform costs, rising tournament fees, etc.

Tournaments are among the biggest waste in the landscape of waste that is travel soccer.

If they want extra matches, top U10-U12 teams should do two leagues per season and do many fewer tournaments.

Leagues, in general: are less expensive than a single tournament, require less travel, feature longer matches (especially because referees add more injury time to league matches), and are more likely to have the regular coach available and focused.
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I don't think playing in two leagues is possible, but I agree that there are plenty of teams locally that we could play against. Many of the ECNL-RL teams could easily play against at least the bottom half of the ranked GA teams. The ECNL teams could easily play against the top half of the ranked GA teams. All of this faraway tournament travel seems unnecessary.[/quote]

Not to derail the thread too much, but our ECNL club does this over the winter with friendlies against a lot of the local GA teams. Tournaments/Showcases are a different beast all together.

Back on topic, I don't know if stay to play is getting worse, but our team stayed in the same hotel back to back years for an ECNL event and the price was almost 40% more than last year for the same hotel on the same weekend. Total rip off[/quote]

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