Crab Feast and Young Guns are no better and no worse than any of the other tournaments I have attended. Both were fine even with the rain.

In regard to the Crabs kids wearing the hate towards them as a badge of honor - are you kidding? They are playing against younger kids. What are you teaching them? The parents and player react to a win or a goal because they just beat/scored against kids that are 1 and 2 years older. Don't flatter yourself that the Crabs are some organization that every other organization aspires to be like. No one wants to be like the Crabs.

Fielding teams with a slew of holdbacks is nothing to be proud of in most peoples minds.

How many 16 year olds on your 2020 team?
How many kids that will be 16 by the end of 2016 on your 2020 team?
How many players on your 2020 team will be on the 2021 team in the summer?
Who is RM afraid to play by concocting the silly 9th grader cant play on a 2020 team? Why not make that rule for every grade? you know why....

As usual there will be crickets chirping....