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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

Yup poverty sucks, thanks for the stats bruh

Anonymous wrote:Wow. My son worked some of the games in Alexandria (for the younger age brackets) and had a nice experience. Sorry to hear that there were issues at the other location.

I'm glad to hear your son had a good experience but ours definitely wasn't "nice." The Alexandria parents were really something else, screaming so loudly at 7 year olds that they couldn't hear the coaches and had to stop the games, and (in a different game) refusing to leave when the ref directly told a parent he had to go. The Alexandria coach did nothing to calm his own parents even when the ref asked, and there was no Alexandria staff on site to intervene either (the poor ref was trying to find someone).

And yes, I've been to Richmond and Atlantic City but this was disgraceful behavior for a stupid local kids tournament. Absolutely ridiculous in an environment for 7 and 9 year old children. (And my kids had tons of wins and some championships this weekend, so that's not my issue.)

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

And, when you're clutching your pearls about crime rates in neighborhoods you're afraid to go into, you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security.

NP here. So this response tells me that you have no experience with Athletic Republic, because if you did you would know the parking lot isn’t “well populated” with luxury vehicles that come from far away. This isn’t the St. James 2.0. AR draws heavily from the surrounding geographic Maryland and DC area. They bring in the noise.

SMH with your ignorance.

Sorry. Been there a lot. Are you quibbling with who drives the luxury vehicles? I said well-off suburban parents (referencing the scared poster) and said a parking lot full of luxury vehicles (didn't say who drove them).

Stop being obtuse. You wrote: "you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security." Insinuating that the victims of actual crime are only locals, that the parking lot is full of luxury cars that don't come from the surrounding area. The overwhelming majority of people that use that facility are "locals". Plenty of Maryland plates on those suburbans, escalades, etc, whatever. They are there to use it as a gym, basketball, football, track, weight training, cheerleading, volleyball, and futsal. Acting like the locals don't bring the crime and that the only luxury car drivers from from far is just ignorant and you know it.

I have been stuck driving out there for five years, almost weekly, and during futsal and volleyball seasons multiple times a week. I just stay in my car when it's my turn to drive (plus there is a great xfinity hotspot in the middle of the parking lot so I work). I have seen people arrested, refs go outside and smoke weed and go back in, parents smoke weed outside, huge fights, hit and runs, police driving in hot pursuit, and people begging. I also saw those men in those pimped out cars yesterday as security, they looked like they were about to storm the Capitol with all guns and random stuff they had strapped to their bodies.

Oh whoops. I thought I was talking to a new poster who was proud of the fact that locals drive nice cars too and "bring the noise" with high level futsal players. I'm cool with that and wanted to apologize. Instead, it's the silly goose who insists everyone is in danger despite never having been a victim of anything in 5 years of weekly trips there. Or are you the person that had their car broken into once (in 250 plus visits)?

Wow. My son worked some of the games in Alexandria (for the younger age brackets) and had a nice experience. Sorry to hear that there were issues at the other location.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

And, when you're clutching your pearls about crime rates in neighborhoods you're afraid to go into, you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security.

NP here. So this response tells me that you have no experience with Athletic Republic, because if you did you would know the parking lot isn’t “well populated” with luxury vehicles that come from far away. This isn’t the St. James 2.0. AR draws heavily from the surrounding geographic Maryland and DC area. They bring in the noise.

SMH with your ignorance.

Sorry. Been there a lot. Are you quibbling with who drives the luxury vehicles? I said well-off suburban parents (referencing the scared poster) and said a parking lot full of luxury vehicles (didn't say who drove them).

Stop being obtuse. You wrote: "you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security." Insinuating that the victims of actual crime are only locals, that the parking lot is full of luxury cars that don't come from the surrounding area. The overwhelming majority of people that use that facility are "locals". Plenty of Maryland plates on those suburbans, escalades, etc, whatever. They are there to use it as a gym, basketball, football, track, weight training, cheerleading, volleyball, and futsal. Acting like the locals don't bring the crime and that the only luxury car drivers from from far is just ignorant and you know it.

I have been stuck driving out there for five years, almost weekly, and during futsal and volleyball seasons multiple times a week. I just stay in my car when it's my turn to drive (plus there is a great xfinity hotspot in the middle of the parking lot so I work). I have seen people arrested, refs go outside and smoke weed and go back in, parents smoke weed outside, huge fights, hit and runs, police driving in hot pursuit, and people begging. I also saw those men in those pimped out cars yesterday as security, they looked like they were about to storm the Capitol with all guns and random stuff they had strapped to their bodies.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

And, when you're clutching your pearls about crime rates in neighborhoods you're afraid to go into, you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security.

NP here. So this response tells me that you have no experience with Athletic Republic, because if you did you would know the parking lot isn’t “well populated” with luxury vehicles that come from far away. This isn’t the St. James 2.0. AR draws heavily from the surrounding geographic Maryland and DC area. They bring in the noise.

SMH with your ignorance.

Sorry. Been there a lot. Are you quibbling with who drives the luxury vehicles? I said well-off suburban parents (referencing the scared poster) and said a parking lot full of luxury vehicles (didn't say who drove them).

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

And, when you're clutching your pearls about crime rates in neighborhoods you're afraid to go into, you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security.

NP here. So this response tells me that you have no experience with Athletic Republic, because if you did you would know the parking lot isn’t “well populated” with luxury vehicles that come from far away. This isn’t the St. James 2.0. AR draws heavily from the surrounding geographic Maryland and DC area. They bring in the noise.

SMH with your ignorance.

Anonymous wrote:That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

I was in the parking lot and a general criminal in the area forced me to buy a $6 cup of coffee. It tasted like sludge. This is a very dangerous location.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

And, when you're clutching your pearls about crime rates in neighborhoods you're afraid to go into, you're neglecting that the actual victims of those crimes are the people that live on those communities and not the well-off suburban parents who roll into a well-populated parking lot full of luxury vehicles and into a building with aforementioned security.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

Or, you could look at the neighborhood rather than the entire zip code. I mean it's fine if you want to live your life being scared of people, I guess.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/md/district-heights/crime#data[url]

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

Yeah, not dangerous at all that I could have been in my car when someone decided to smash my window and rob me. What planet do you live on?

https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-20747/

Overall Crime Grade: F
Violent Crime Grade: F
Property Crime Grade: F
Other Crime Grade: D-

Of course there are people in that area who are perfectly nice but it doesn't change the fact that it's a dangerous, high-crime area. And that's what I called it.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament[/quote]

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility. [/quote]

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff). [/quote]

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people. [/quote]

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken. [/quote]

I have multiple kids that have gone there over the past several years for basketball, volleyball and futsal, all days of the week and all times of the day. It’s a combo of the neighborhood AND the people that go to AR. Every single time, except for yesterday, I have seen the PG County police inside and out in the parking lot. Several times (esp during Friday and Sat nights when there is at least some basketball) I have seen people arrested. I’ve seen multiple fights in the parking lots. Last year there was a weird homeless encampment on the side with a bunch of feral cats and drunk people.

How often do you go there? I wish it was different. The same things do not happen at the St James or Fairfax Sportsplex. It is what it is. Don’t act dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

Can we please chill with the "very dangerous location" and "criminals around that area" hyperbole? I'm sorry you had your car broken into once. I've been there many times and have never had an issue. And let's recognize that having your car broken into doesn't mean you were in danger. No need to malign a community because you were inconvenienced or had some stuff taken.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

That's a very dangerous location. They security was undoubtably there not so much for the futsal parents but for the general criminals around that area -- we've had our car broken into while at that place before so I'm glad they had *some* security there.

There was definitely a bag check and it was obnoxious. And $6 for a cup of disgusting coffee? That's the kind of ridiculous price-gouging that really annoys people.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part was the $7 cover charge, the TSA-like bag searches for “contraband food/drink” time you entered the venue, and the $6 coffee (sludge). What a crappy tournament

I agree ASA needs to work with AR to either not charge the fee or to allow outside F&B it may require them to pay more but it felt crazy as there wasn’t real food and if 2 kids were playing it wasn’t easy to leave the facility.

ASA parents didn’t have to pay. I also never had my bag searched and walked in with plenty of food. I have to pay to enter both the Richmond and AC tournaments so if I had to pay for this one I’d just think oh well.

The food issue is an AR thing and if you ever read their reviews they ALWAYS do this for whatever event is happening (volleyball, basketball, futsal, etc). What was super weird yesterday was the private security. Three separate black vehicles, tricked out to look like cop cars, with blacked out windows and windshields with fake cop lights pulled up in the afternoon and not come these guys that looked like swat team cosplay (bullet proof vests that said OFFICER on the back, guns, handcuffs, other tactical gear attached to their vests, ammo around their thighs, etc). They go inside and stand in the front by the doors for hours looking insane. My kid’s team made the finals and so we were there until almost 9pm and they were still there.

I am not sure what they were there for. I did see a few games where parents got heated and one where a coach got a red card and refused to leave but those fake cops were nowhere to be found. I guess they supervise the baggage checks and front windows??? Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen some insane stuff).

At Atlantic City two years ago there was a melee during a match that included chair throwing. Futsal intensity (not in10sity) sometimes brings out the worst in folks. Maybe just being prepared for it.

I was at that AC tournament when that fight happened. But those private security dudes yesterday at AR didn’t do anything when there was major arguing in a semis and finals. they never left the front. So again, what was the point? Plus they looked severely out of shape. They had handcuffs and guns. Why? Just bring the PG County police on all other days (they were there during practice earlier that week).

Yeah I get it. And didn't mean to dwell on the negative. I thought it was a fun weekend and pretty well run. Good to see folks from all over that my son has played with over the years.