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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is scouting these tournaments for anything other than wondering if a club can get its kids from rec to travel.  No one is scouting in general.  I mean really ... "So your child seems good, you've opted not to do travel in your club ... would you like to commute further and pay more to play travel with our club?"  ???[/quote]

Exactly! But I think the scouting comment was made in jest and to mock the OP. No one wants to discuss a random rec age group, especially as old as u12, where any extraordinary talent would already be siphoned off to travel.[/quote]

Pretty sure that's in jest. Let's face it - at U8, most of the kids there are travel quality. At U9, probably about one-third to one-half of the kids could play travel. Once you get to U10, it's maybe one to two kids per team at best who could be playing low to mid level travel. All the talent more or less gets siphoned off after U9. The U8 age group is the only one at a rec all star tournament with all the best players in tact still. 
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simply not true, although agree that there is a natural siphoning off
I think people paying travel like to think that some natural selection has occurred to verify and validify their expense/self esteem
reality is you can't identify all talent at U8-U12 as it hasnt all developed linearly

there is a girl in U13 playing in this tournament who is very talented, parent played professionally in Latin america, she has played on boys academy teams in Latin America and is very technical and good, she plays with her friends on a SFL team that perenially loses.  She is an exceptional noticeable talent.  There are lots of similar situations and other talented players that do not play travel for many different reasons.

parents that are former elite players do not always need/afford travel dynamics at these ages[/quote]

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