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Anonymous wrote: How lucrative are these tournaments?

If they are charging $600 a team, very lucrative. The only costs would be referees and any admin costs.

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Anonymous wrote:The combined ages are ugly, an all one year team playing all one year older teams, yeah not pretty

The kids (ok really their parents) WANT to do this. They want to show up. Right now there is a U8 all stars team playing in the U9 age bracket.

The schedule posted is from last year. There will be even fewer teams this year because it was so bad last year, orgs like Herndon and CYA are going back to FPYC.

Can't even wrap my brain around the travel team from Puerto Rico. Their families must have spent so much money to travel here. They were done dirty.

CYA IS Valor. Can they really bow out of the Valor tournament when they partially fund it?

I think CYA and SYA are forced to participate in it. After all Valor is their creation.

You have it reversed, Valor split off on purpose as a separate nonprofit from the rec leagues (which are big community rec leagues that run lots of different sports) in order to be able to pay themselves more, charge more in fees, and not share any profits with CYA and SYA. However, the professional employees who are paid to run rec soccer for CYA are also paid separately on the side by Valor, so alot of their decisions put Valor interests above the interests of the rec league players. So Valor wanted to capture the all star fees from our CYA rec players by holding their own bad tournament and CYA soccer said sure who cares its just rec soccer. That's why the fees are so much higher than FPYC-they are getting guaranteed customers so why not gowge them. (If Valor was running this tournament to benefit the rec kids, wouldn't the CYA teams be playing for free instead of paying $600+ per team?)

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Anonymous wrote:The combined ages are ugly, an all one year team playing all one year older teams, yeah not pretty

The kids (ok really their parents) WANT to do this. They want to show up. Right now there is a U8 all stars team playing in the U9 age bracket.

The schedule posted is from last year. There will be even fewer teams this year because it was so bad last year, orgs like Herndon and CYA are going back to FPYC.

Can't even wrap my brain around the travel team from Puerto Rico. Their families must have spent so much money to travel here. They were done dirty.

CYA IS Valor. Can they really bow out of the Valor tournament when they partially fund it?

I think CYA and SYA are forced to participate in it. After all Valor is their creation.

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Anonymous wrote:The combined ages are ugly, an all one year team playing all one year older teams, yeah not pretty

The kids (ok really their parents) WANT to do this. They want to show up. Right now there is a U8 all stars team playing in the U9 age bracket.

The schedule posted is from last year. There will be even fewer teams this year because it was so bad last year, orgs like Herndon and CYA are going back to FPYC.

Can't even wrap my brain around the travel team from Puerto Rico. Their families must have spent so much money to travel here. They were done dirty.

CYA IS Valor. Can they really bow out of the Valor tournament when they partially fund it?

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the point of this tournament. Why compete directly with an established tournament and charge more?

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

All star soccer = coach's kid and their two closest friends. It doesn't matter if they are popular or if they are skilled. That's who gets in at CYA.

Anonymous wrote:CYA doesn't fund Valor. Valor exists because the dudes in charge wanted to pay themselves a lot more and charge a lot more than "community travel soccer rates" and keep from sharing the profits with the larger CYA rec org, so they created a financially separate non profit. They happily use CYA's assets like field space and mailing lists for free though.

Maybe the CYA All Star coaches refused to coach if they returned to the same bad tournament.

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Anonymous wrote:The combined ages are ugly, an all one year team playing all one year older teams, yeah not pretty

The kids (ok really their parents) WANT to do this. They want to show up. Right now there is a U8 all stars team playing in the U9 age bracket.

The schedule posted is from last year. There will be even fewer teams this year because it was so bad last year, orgs like Herndon and CYA are going back to FPYC.

Can't even wrap my brain around the travel team from Puerto Rico. Their families must have spent so much money to travel here. They were done dirty.

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Anonymous wrote:Our rec basketball all stars is just one extra game for fun. No big deal.

Yep this is what our league does. My child’s coach last year had the players vote on who should play in the game. I thought that was really cool

That would be great if all star soccer built their teams like that. Teams getting an equal number of players that their teammates voted in would remove the doubt and bs. It would also result in better stronger teams.

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Anonymous wrote:They should try and get individual rec teams to sign up. Loudoun has an in house soccer tournament the week before all-stars and gets 4-8 teams per age group to pay $300.

They are charging way more than that