LegRider your statement "As for the amount of time between matches, That's just the way it is in any tournament and most sports.", is incorrect. Most sports have time restraints that keep the games time to a minimal. You don't see a 13 hour football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and etc games. If a tournament is designed last that long, they would have sessions so you could leave and come back at a certain time or would be a 2 day event. You can't do that at Topeka's Tournament. Rest assure LegRider if any of those sports could last up to 13 hours according to your statement, NOBODY would want to play that sport. That is to much time for anybody to spend in a gym or field and then have a 1.5 hour drive home (my drive home). We arrived at the tournament around 7 am. My son’s 1st match was at 10:35 am, 2nd match was at 1:16 pm and his Championship match was at 5:40 pm, reviewed the tape to get my son's match times. By the time he got his Championship bracket and medal, we left a little after 7 pm. Add my drive home, I arrive at home a little before 9 pm. Topeka had bleachers that could’ve been pulled out but choose not to. I was resting on those bleachers while I was camping out on the floor. I don’t know the reason why, maybe safety reason, I don’t know. It would’ve been nice to have those bleacher pulled out instead of camping out on the floor. I think the problem with the Topeka Tournament was that they went past the cutoff for entries. I’m all for the club to make their money but not at the expense of dragging out a tournament.

You are correct, their were people all over the floor at Liberty Nationals which made it hard to see any matches. As far as the Liberty Nationals selling brackets, I thought that was tacky because even if you wanted to keep track of the matches, you couldn’t with all the people standing on the floor. I always bring my own brackets, fill them out at the tournament and then put them in my computer later. I was lucky because one of the coaches brought the brackets and gave me my son's bracket.