I don't believe it was Hays intention to pull entries away from the classic. Hays has always had good tourney but the high school was getting to small. I know it used to be a earlier tournament, but I think they wanted to include 14 & 16 ages. Hays has done a great job of putting this together as well as the facility and competition, they shouldn,t be faulted for that. I know for us in Western Kansas it has been nice to travel an hour or two for good competition instead four. Then turn around the next to weekends and travel 1 to 3 hours for Subs and Districts as well the 5 hour trip to Topeka for some.
I,m not saying the classic is not a well ran tournament or the competition is not good because it is. I feel both tournaments have there place and will continue to have great turnouts.