As for the conflicts with the Pastime Tournaments, what can I say, they are a large money making company and hosting tournaments across the country is their livelihood. They are not like a lot of tournament hosts who are doing it to try to help fund a summer for their players and keep the costs down for the parents. They do it to put money in the bank and their pockets. Not that there is anything wrong with that, it’s just not what our organization is all about.
We are a local travel organization that does do a pretty good job at hosting tournaments for the Indiana AAU. An organization that has been around for years and host some of the biggest and best ran National Tournaments in the country.
As for Pastimes tournaments being the same price as ours, you might want to check the gate fee that must be paid one month prior to the start of the tournaments.......A lot of tournaments are doing this and there may be nothing wrong with it. To me, it's just another way to raise the entry fee price to the teams. Rarely is this fee ever passed on to the parents the way a "Gate Fee" has typically been in the past. Gate fees are usually paid by the parents, not out of the team account.