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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know how they expect this to work, people driving 90 minutes each way to sit in their cars for 8 hours straight?  Unlikely.[/quote]

These performative rules are an unnecessary pain in the neck.  Bars and restaurants are still open but these tournaments are going to prevent a single parent spectator outdoors which presents basically zero COVID risk.  [/quote]

+1. We attended the girls’ tournament last weekend. While we enjoyed ourselves and appreciated having a tournament at all, there were opportunities:

- Parents and kids warming up an hour before their game in the same small place as spectators watching the existing games.

- Zero enforcement of parents on the sidelines, at times standing inches off the field.

- Nets with holes in them leading to questions of whether a shot was a goal or came in through the side net.

- Big drop off in ref quality vs the standard NCSL refs we get for league games (who are generally good).

- Little to no tournament officials, and the ones who were there were teenagers playing on their phones the whole time.

Oddly, it was not nearly as organized as the Alexandria tournament last month. [/quote]

Our DD played in the same tournament and the tournament officials at our location were getting into parents faces when parents would congregate close to each other, etc.  I did not see any nets in with the holes and the refs were OK.  The latest restrictions by the governor are hurting soccer tournaments, which are outdoor events with low probability of infection spread (not a single outbreak so far even though multiple tournaments were held).  McLean should allow parents to watch with some reasonable restriction, like 1 parent per player, particularly in the younger age groups.  How many parents would be comfortable just dropping off a 9 year old and not being around if your kid gets injured?    [/quote]

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