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Not many elite teams at the 03' level compared to other age groups. Understatement. Seems like the majority of the 03 "elite" tourneys consist of the same group of kids swapping jerseys week-to-week. Case in point: 04 Blades playing up at 03 Elite 04 Machine playing up at 03 AAA 03 Miracl...

Win hardware, obviously. With the growing expansion of metro tournaments, it has become increasingly easier to find tournaments with 4-5 teams that are willing to offer cheap trophies to the top 2 places. Throw in a cheesy "player of the game" award for each of 5 games and you've got a re...

Thanks for the kind words about our tournament. As a non-profit we take great pride in it as it offsets the cost of playing AAA for our local teams. And we will be playing close attention to and strictly enforcing ages in 2014; 8u: 2005 and younger 10u: 2003 and younger 12u: 2001 and younger 14u: 1...

There are better places to spend your money. Not a well run or attended tournament. If you want to visit Duluth, I would suggest the Battle of the Bay.
At the 2003 level anyways.

The second half of the AAA season is when I really start to learn about the first year kids. Right now it seems that MG is the class of that age group. A lot changes in a Brick year....plus development of players over a year or two can be a big factor. Look at the 00 Euro team. They have had some r...