Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our parents told our club no tournaments this year. It's not worth it.

Not worth what? Local tournaments cost $50-$75 per kid. If you are spending $2,000 on a season, seems silly not to try to do tournaments. Or are you afraid of COVID-19? You are ok with practice and league games, but not tournaments? I don't get it.

BTW, not a loudoun parent.

Do you really not understand the difference in the level of risk of transmission between team practices and league games compared to tournaments?

I honestly don't know the difference in risk of transmission between a tournament vs league games. What is the difference?

Anonymous wrote:Tournaments are crap football. They have ZERO value developmentally and are not a good value for the time spent. Seedings are pulled out of a hat and you frequently end up with a blow out game (either in favor or against your kids). Our coaches actually hate them too feeling they are just a money grab for clubs that suck down an entire weekend of their coaching time.

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Tournaments are crap football. They have ZERO value developmentally and are not a good value for the time spent. Seedings are pulled out of a hat and you frequently end up with a blow out game (either in favor or against your kids). Our coaches actually hate them too feeling they are just a money grab for clubs that suck down an entire weekend of their coaching time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our parents told our club no tournaments this year. It's not worth it.

Not worth what? Local tournaments cost $50-$75 per kid. If you are spending $2,000 on a season, seems silly not to try to do tournaments. Or are you afraid of COVID-19? You are ok with practice and league games, but not tournaments? I don't get it.

BTW, not a loudoun parent.

Do you really not understand the difference in the level of risk of transmission between team practices and league games compared to tournaments?

And for what? Developmentally, tournaments offer zero benefits and at high school ages actually do more harm than good. Playing 3-4 games in a weekend is silly at best, dangerous at worst. They are fun social events for the kids and parents, and an opportunity for bragging rights for the clueless parents who think things like that actually matter. First and foremost though, their primary and overriding purpose is to generate revenue for the clubs.

Would be better to spread out the season and play more league matches and scrimmages. Less weekends without a match, but no weekends with multiple matches.

^^How so?*

Anonymous wrote:Should be a great event

How do? LOL

Anonymous wrote:Should be a great event

LS staff detected !

Should be a great event

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our parents told our club no tournaments this year. It's not worth it.

Not worth what? Local tournaments cost $50-$75 per kid. If you are spending $2,000 on a season, seems silly not to try to do tournaments. Or are you afraid of COVID-19? You are ok with practice and league games, but not tournaments? I don't get it.

BTW, not a loudoun parent.

If it gets canceled clubs can't count on getting their money back. And local tourneys are not cheaper. They still run $300-$600 per team.

It isn't worth giving Loudoun money.

Anonymous wrote:Our parents told our club no tournaments this year. It's not worth it.

Not worth what? Local tournaments cost $50-$75 per kid. If you are spending $2,000 on a season, seems silly not to try to do tournaments. Or are you afraid of COVID-19? You are ok with practice and league games, but not tournaments? I don't get it.

BTW, not a loudoun parent.

we did it last summer, and while i didn't love the dates i will admit it was a good tournament

Our parents told our club no tournaments this year. It's not worth it.

Well, if the tournament can’t happen don’t expect your team to be refunded.

Knowing now their business practices a club should strongly consider giving Loudoun Soccer any money.

And to those Loudoun Soccer police screaming troll, if it wasn’t for the badgering Bethesda took over the lack of refunds over how they handled their tournament two years ago they would not have made the changes they made. They took a beating from these boards and clubs let them know they would never come back if they didn’t fix their policies.

As another club I wouldn’t do business with Loudoun Soccer until they did better by their own customers.

Looks like they found a way!

Are you signing up your team?

Think they’ll have 120 teams or more like last year?

Will their handling of COVID/refunds impact their financial stability?

Rumor has it they’re losing one team per age group/gender thus making the current squads drop in quality and depth.