This Tournament Gets and A-. It would have been an A+ for sure. But they started getting GREEDY. The tournament itself was great. The Competition was great. Tons of kids from tons of places. Everything Ran really smooth. The refs did a fairly competent job. BUT THEY GOT GREEDY, AND WHERE REDICULOUS ABOUT THE FOOD. THEY WOULDN'T LET YOU BRING FOOD INTO A TOURNAMENT THAT WAS FROM 7 AM TO APPROX. 8PM. AND THAT ITSELF IS UNDERSTANDABLE. BUT IF YOU BOUGHT A DRINK OF FOOD YOU COULDN'T BRING IT INTO THE AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATE. IT WAS CRAZY. THEN THE WORST PART OF ALL WAS. THERE WERE KIDS THATS PARENTS WENT TO GET THEM SOME LUNCH AND BROUGHT IT BACK TO THEM, WELL SINCE THEY COULD NOT BRING THE FOOD INSIDE. YOU WOULD THINK THEY COULD EAT IT IN THAT LITTLE COMMONS AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATE AND INSIDE THE DOORS, BUT NO. THEY MADE THESE KIDS GO OUTSIDE IN THE FREEZING RAIN AND COMBO SNOW IN FREEZING WEATHER TO EAT THEIR LUNCH. I THOUGHT THAT WAS EXTREMELY GREEDY AND HARDCORE. SO IF KIDS GET COLDS, FLUS OR NUMONEA THIS WEEK. PLEASE LET THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS KNOW THAT THIS IS A RIDICULOUS POLICY. MOST ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE DROVE HUNDREDS OF MILES TO COME AND ENJOY ONE OF THE BEST TOURNAMENTS IN THE MIDWEST. AND WE ARE MIDWESTERN FOLKS. WE DO NOT LIKE GREEDY ISSUES LIKE THIS. IT COULD BE AN EASY WAY TO MAKE THIS GREAT AMAZING EVENT TURN INTO SOMETHING THAT NOBODY WANTS IT TO BE. SO NEXT YEAR PLEASE ALLOW FOOD BACK INTO THE COMMONS AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATES. NOT INTO THE TOURNAMENT ITSELF BUT JUST INSIDE THE DOORS AND OUT SIDE THE GATES.

THANK YOU