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meeting those teams part of the way, would keep people coming back....



We've always sent some of our younger teams there, but this is the first year where we sent some U15+ teams (we took our 16 & 18 boys). Certainly disappointed that we could not play Sunday, but we still got a couple good games in for both teams. (We were some of the lucky ones.) The teams I feel the worst for are the out of state teams from Florida, West Virginia, etc that only got to play one game each. Since spring U15 & above is the "off season" in SC, you really need those out of state teams to support the tournament or you simply can't pull off the older brackets in the spring.

Perhaps a "part of the way" to meet such teams would be to offer the club a discount for next year giving them a X/3 percentage off voucher for St Patty's 2009 for each game less than 3 played (i.e. one game played = 67% off, two games played = 33% off). Wouldn't cost CUFC anything this year & might help make for an even more expanded field for next year. Just a thought.

Overall, the tournament teams attending were "class acts". We've always liked this tourney & will continue to send our teams to support CUFC as they have supported us.