Tournament question

bkekcs

The biggest challenge at that age is to find good solid competition.

Many of the younger age groups take any teams just to have a full field of teams regardless of the competition.

That is what I would look into first.

Here's a start...

www.superseriesbaseball.com
www.usssabaseball.org
www.triplecrownsports.com
www.aaubaseball.org
www.kcsports.org


Been a few years since my son participated in these worlds series events, but as I recall, KC Sports has the Road to Omaha Tournament. Great experience for the kids!!! Includes a ticket to the College World Series. The kids had a blast & competition was very good, from all over the US.
Super Series attracts a high level of competition, at least from down south & west. They are headquartered in Arizona. USSSA & AAu were about equal. AAU in Oklahoma is strong!!
Triple Crown WS in Steamboat Springs is a joke at best! Fields are horrible & spread out over 60-80 miles apart! Opening ceremonies were in the livestock/rodeo arena! When it rained, as is prone to happen every afternoon, it stunk for miles around! Competition is B-C mostly.

Each of these organizations has multiple qualifiers, Regional Finals , State Finals & World Series events.

Good luck!

Don't forget CABA, from my experience, a well run tourney, with great competition.

And TRHit hasn't been to Texas lately. When my son was 12, the teams here were top notch. There are always a team or two that didn't belong, but for the most part, in the Major division of any tournament, you are going to find very tough competition.

We went to the Super Series Winternationals last year in Phoenix. Had a great time until I came out to the parking lot and found my suburban broken into with over $8,500 in damages and losses. My car an about 26 six others were all broken into in about a three hour period. Local law enforcement and city officials didn't seem to care. But were scheduled to go again this summer.

My personal recommendation if your looking for good competition and a great opportunity to mix in a family vacation is the Super series tournaments in San Clement Beach. Its a get town, with uncrowded beaches, well run tournament and your only about a half hours drive from Disney land and Anaheim Stadium.

No, I don't work for the Orange County Vistors Bureau.

DG...which team was your son on at Winter Nationals?

KELLER

What does my not having been to Texas have to do with what I posted ?

What you describe I can find in any state if I know where to look

My team went to the Road To Omaha last year and the competition is really tough. Pretty much all the teams that were at the Major world series and the top AAA teams were there. Id check out that one.

I wish to aloso add to Kings comments that the umpiring in Omaha is top notch. Over the l;ast six years I have had many positive comments from out of state parents on this.

Way to go Blues.

Last weekend , between the three major tournaments here and a couple of local ones as well, I heard that there was spmehting like 1300 games scheduled by the local umpire organizations over a four day span. Some parents a talked to were staying as far away as Red Oak Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska. (It can be a little tough getting a room during the CWS.

Great, great time.

Be sure to schedule it next year.