My thoughts are this....There are a couple different types of travel tournaments, ones that you earn the right to play in and those that any team that chooses to pay the price can attend. Cooperstown has always been a "If you pay, you can play" tournament. I know people from the town and this is a major source of income for many of them. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but competiton is always questionable and you will get teams with different attitudes then maybe the Super Series, Triple Crown or USSSA national events that you must qualify for in local tourneys.
Not that you may not find a little attitude there to...pretty high strung , some of these "Elite Travel Teams".