Being at both tournaments I would say that Garden City and Basehor tournaments are dead even in difficulty of competition.
This is my opinion, not fact, just opinion. Basehor's competition may be a little deeper in the area of tough preliminary matches, but Garden City's competition is much tougher when you get into the semi finals. The teams at Basehor are very good and I wouldn't take anything away from them, but after seeing El Reno and Ponderosa I would have to say that they would have walked through our tournament pretty easily. El Reno and Ponderosa are very elite teams and they are great to watch. It is really kind of scary when you look at some the great teams in Kansas and then you see teams like El Reno, Ponderosa, and Oak Park.