Anonymous wrote:What rec club is "Universal FC" ???

Probably someone in travel set up a team with his friends.

To add to that -- once the tournament volunteer realized I was there, he was very helpful.

Reffed my FPYC games today.

The lone volunteer at the field most of the time I was there was a kid of about 17 or 18 who was so engrossed in his phone that he didn't notice me standing at the table.

As per usual, teams provided their own tents for shade.

Games were running late.

One of my ARs got added to the crew for my games this morning.

There are still opening for referees to get through the end of the day.

The games were close -- mostly because these teams in this weather could spend 60 minutes on a field with no opposition and barely score two goals. Not a lot of attacking prowess on display.

(Besides, this is right there in the tournament rules: "Posted game scores will not show more than a five-point difference in goals (e.g. 6-0 recorded as 5-0, 7-1 recorded as 6-1, 8-2 recorded as 7-2)." Just look at yesterday's scores from U9 Concorde boys -- two forfeits and four "five-goal" games. At U10 Concorde boys, all but two games have been "five-goal" games, and the other two were three and four.)

And you know what?

It was fine.

The coaches generally kept up a positive tone, which you don't often find in travel. Kids played hard but fairly.

And the ice cream truck did a lot of business.

Anonymous wrote:Beau Gideon-Beauregard is a VSA parent, not valour.

https://duresport.com/

Anonymous wrote:Beau Gideon-Beauregard is a VSA parent, not valour.

Bababooey was a close guess.

My neighbor's kid lost a game 18-0 yesterday but she said it was listed as 9-0 to try to not look as bad.

Beau Gideon-Beauregard is a VSA parent, not valour.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.

Is that a thing now? If every tournament set up tents for players that would be great.

It’s not. Teams typically bring those for themselves. It would be great — if any tournaments ARE doing that, you’re right, that’d be awesome.

And we can all see the scores for ourselves. The idea that all the Valor games are blowouts and all the FPYC games are nail biters simply falls apart when you actually go to the sites and check.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the FPYC tournament is better. But the anti-Valor person(s) here is (are) completely unhinged and allergic to facts. Too typical these days, of course.

Only one person here dislikes Valor and has created 3 separate threads with about 150 pages worth of negative comments? Beau or Bob or Bababooey ( whatever your name is) you’re delusional.

What rec club is "Universal FC" ???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.

Is that a thing now? If every tournament set up tents for players that would be great.

They could do it at this event because they are only using a few fields, and, they own a lot of tents.

Girls u-10 is the worst

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.

Is that a thing now? If every tournament set up tents for players that would be great.

It’s not. Teams typically bring those for themselves. It would be great — if any tournaments ARE doing that, you’re right, that’d be awesome.

And we can all see the scores for ourselves. The idea that all the Valor games are blowouts and all the FPYC games are nail biters simply falls apart when you actually go to the sites and check.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the FPYC tournament is better. But the anti-Valor person(s) here is (are) completely unhinged and allergic to facts. Too typical these days, of course.

Who said all? There is someone on here who consistently tries to make their point by exagerating what other people
are saying. No one said every game is a blowout.

But, for this tournament so far, it is easy to see that the mismatched games are a much higher percentage at Valor compared to FPYC-Valor has a LOT fewer games total. You can see that for yourselves. Its not even up for debate.

For instance, check out boys u9 and boys u13-u14 (I guess they combined those ages?): barely any competitive games in the whole age groups. The "regular score" games stand out as unusual.

(How does a team score 11-0 when the games are shorter than normal games? Then it looks like the "0" in that game beat another team 7-1?)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.

Is that a thing now? If every tournament set up tents for players that would be great.

It’s not. Teams typically bring those for themselves. It would be great — if any tournaments ARE doing that, you’re right, that’d be awesome.

And we can all see the scores for ourselves. The idea that all the Valor games are blowouts and all the FPYC games are nail biters simply falls apart when you actually go to the sites and check.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the FPYC tournament is better. But the anti-Valor person(s) here is (are) completely unhinged and allergic to facts. Too typical these days, of course.

Anonymous wrote:They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.

Is that a thing now? If every tournament set up tents for players that would be great.

They didn't put popup tents up over the team
benches? That's lame: they are only playing games at a handful of fields.