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[quote=Anonymous]I think there needs to be a distinction between parents feeling the need to attend every single out-of-town tournament vs. their kid's loving it.

It's safe to say that any kid would love to go visit an amusement park with friends and stay at a hotel with a pool...so it's strange to say "my kid loves the sport" but the answer is because of all the other things they do beside playing the sport.

I get that the travel sport makes arranging for overnight stays easier because it's a date and place that everyone will travel to and is set by the sports schedule vs. trying to arrange a group weekend vacation somewhere.

I say my kid "loves it" because once they were able to drive, they were excited to get up at 6am and drive to Fredericksburg or Richmond on their own to play in a tournament, even though they needed to be back in DC the same day for something else.

It was painful and we gave them the choice to skip that particular day...but they said no chance.

Before they could drive, we split travel duties with 3 other families so parents only had to attend one tournament a season.  We enjoyed that one tournament...but one was plenty for each of our group.[/quote]

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