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I don't know what the rationale was for including so many teams but development was not a major part of the discussion. [/quote]

Tournaments have nothing to do with development.   They are huge fundraising events for the hosting clubs.   That's it.  The motivation to provide a good experience is only because it's a competitive market.   With the sheer number of tournaments being offered now,  teams have many options.   But it is all about making money, and there's nothing wrong with that.   The clubs are non-profits, so after paying the operating expenses (including sometimes professional tournament directors), they have to pour that $$ back into the clubs.

Where does it go?  Some goes for training and equipment, which offsets costs for the players.  A lot of it also goes into field improvement, including providing funding for more turf fields, many of which have been paid for by public-private partnerships between soccer clubs and local governments.

It would take a lot of bake sales and car washes to come close to the amount of money that can be raised from a tournament with hundreds of teams playing $900-1200 each. [/quote]

And yet Bethesda has been having this tournament at Muldoon's for years. Exactly what field improvements have been made form the money?[/quote]

Muldoons is fine if the weather holds. When it gets rainy everything falls apart.  It’s also used all season long for league games.

Former BSC parent[/quote]

Another BSC parent here, and I disagree that Muldoons is fine.  If dry, I get what you are trying to say, but Muldoons is simply not meant for soccer, even when it is in its best condition.  It is consistently the worst field that our kids play on for soccer, and you always hear opposing teams' parents talk poorly about the field quality.  As others have noted on this thread, the ball rarely rolls true, which makes it incredibly difficult for kids to dribble or connect passes.  You frequently see possession lost because of a bad bounce, and we have seen very "soft" goals scored by balls that take terrible bounces over a keeper's hands.  Our BSC teams usually play much better soccer on "away" trips when they are on fields that are meant for soccer and not as lumpy as Muldoons.

I echo the sentiment from an earlier post that I have never understood why the U12 and under BSC teams play on such a sub-standard field, while MSI teams and other similar teams play their games at the SoccerPlex, which is superior in every way to Muldoons/Summer Hill and is a much closer drive for nearly all of the kids on BSC rosters.

As for the tourney, BSC should have been aware that Muldoons was in bad shape due to all of the rainouts in September, the condensed number of games played at Muldoons during October, coupled with the additional rain in October and November.  Those fields were in as bad a shape as I have ever seen them in late October, and BSC parents were talking at that time about how there was no way the fields would be playable for the boys and girls tournaments in November.  As this thread has illustrated, this has not been a good week or so for the club's reputation, and it is embarrassing for those of us with kids in the program.  Hopefully BSC fixes some of these issues for next season and next year's Premier Cup.     [/quote]

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