I will pay for the Nationally ranked tournaments.We went to dodge city. It was a good tournament.There was a kid from CO that was ranked way above one of the 2 ogden boys.The only reason he was ranked higher was National tournaments.The Kansas boys dominated him.But in the ranks he was better. At 14u I do not think the D1 schools look at this.But at some point they will.What I am saying is to be ranked you have to go where you can get ranked.I would rather spend my $100s here in KS than drive out of state.I can say the price of food and drinks was very good at dodge.They also had juice,Gatorade,water all cheaper than POP.

Now with that said,I love the down home tournaments.There is no better than paying $15 times two for my family to set in the bleachers of a HS.Funny how most of the low entry tournaments have food for the coaches,wile the big tournaments charge us and have no food/water at all.