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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The cattle call tryouts are a waste and it sucks that often times, the age director already has it in his mind who's making the cut while all these young kids are absolutely playing their hearts out.[/b] How can you evaluate a kid [b]playing 15v15 (yes) in a 20 yard parcel of a field[/b]? It's kickball.  I believe for all the big clubs and their money and infrastructure, GET IT TOGETHER. You already know the amount of kids registered, get there more than 45 mins early, set up the cones, set up the stations so you can get maybe 6 stations (yes means more coaches to evaluate), designated a check in person BEFORE the tryout not during.   How many parents have seen coaches apparently watching a group but then called over to move cones, make space, annoying parent "needing" to talk.. Get it together. So hack the way they do this (most, not all). I've found the smaller clubs spend more time and have it dialed in better (sorry BSC and PSA)[/quote]

Hosting cattle call tryouts is a terrible system, but I think a necessary one.  I believe some leagues require that clubs hold fair and open tryouts when forming teams.  That being said, not all clubs facilitate the tryout process in the same manner.    Our club also hosted a tryout last year where they stuffed 30 kids in a tight space and held scrimmages; it was like playing soccer in an elevator.  No one felt good about that process. In they end, they accepted all players who wanted to join and behind closed doors, they formed their squads.    If a club doesn't have reasonable people in charge, all the little things you mentioned above can screw up a tryout.    So, that might be indicative of club organization more than anything.   If you are a new family to travel soccer and you see this at tryouts, maybe shop around.  If you are currently in a club that did this, hopefully your player made an impression on team placement before tryouts even started, as cattle call tryouts in, a confined space are hardly fair for the players. 
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