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My kid's field doesn't even seem like a tournament is happening. There was nowhere even to buy a bottle of water, no one from the tournament was there, no signs, nothing.  [/quote]
At our field, SYA Park, they had food trucks, tshirt stands, signs and it was perfectly tournament-like atmosphere. I get that not all sites can have that, and your site may have been underwhelming.
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At the very first game on Saturday, it was filthy--the port a potties were unusable and parents were picking up dog poop and large pieces of trash from the field.  [/quote]
That stinks, but I don't blame the tournament for that.  Back in the fall, that happened to us for our first game in the Herndon Cup tournament.  We had to kick people who were playing a game off the field and they left all their trash for us, so the parents all stepped up to clean up the field.  I was pretty annoyed but I don't blame the not the organizer's fault. And my god the portapotty situation at the finals for Herndon Cup was the stuff of nightmares.After dark, the main bathroom was locked and the one remaining port-a-potty was overflowing.
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Our coach was lied to and told we would be playing other rec teams not all star teams and the second team we played was a "tournament team" that kids have to try out for and then practices together all year and the third team was CYA All Stars. Why were rec teams and travel teams in the same grouping when they had two seperate brackets?[/quote]
We were a rec team, but had girls chosen from across multiple rec teams, so it was an "All Star" thing for us.  However, this team only got to have three practices together before this weekend.  When we go against Loudoun, who has had a team picked from across their entire county and have been practicing together for a entire season, it does feel rather like David and Goliath.  But in any case, the tournament should be all rec teams. I guess the choice to do a season long all star team is up to the organization, and CYA/SYA just doesn't do that.

And yes, with the low participation in this tournament, there were teams that were the regular season rec teams that went to the tournament as a team.  But I do know at least one of those teams made the final.

I wish there had been a consolation game for our age group.  We were up against the top Loudoun team in our flight for our first game, and when we lost that first game, we basically lost any chance at the finals even though we tied for 2nd for points across our age group.

So my review as a parent is that I wish our team could have played in the larger FPYC tournament, this one definitely had fewer participants. I wish the seeding/qualificiation process was better, but overall the tournament was run fine.  
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