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It obvious which parents are gloating here. The parents of the only team that didn't show up for the biggest LI tournament of the year, the LI Lax Fest. It's easy for them to say they are the best, they won all those B championships last year and they weren't at the LI Lax Fest to see Express, 91 and Ducks all play each other more than once with every game having lead changes and every game being decided by 2 or less goals. What a great tournament it was and they missed it. Way to teach your kids to run from competition so they can hold up a $2 t-shirt. You guys win, all your boys are getting full scholarships and the rest of the 2025 boys will be losers the rest of their lives. What a bunch of big mouth parents living vicariously through their 10 year olds and hiding behind anonymous comments. Don't think for a second everyone doesn't know exactly who you are. Losers.

News FLASH!!! All those same parents that think their kids are the man and on the best team will find out very quickly that their kid isn't the man. Enjoy it while it last. Hurray, you're the 5th grade champion!!!

How many tournaments will the nuts/laxin team play in this year?

Please tell me you don't believe that the owners of True Blue are doing this solely to raise money for a charity. It say right on the flier a " portion" of the proceeds will go to charity. They saw an opportunity when the JDRF tournament ended to run a tournament which saves their club money. The only reason they are billing it as a charity event is to get the field space for free from the town ( true story). I'm not knocking the kids or the organization but that's the truth, do the math on how much money a club team can save by enrolling their own teams in a tournament that they run and you will see why more and more organizations are following suit.

Can we please stop these childish pissing matches

We will play when we decide

or when blast has an off weekend and there is no football

They put a bunch of A kids in B tournaments. Not very impressive and pretty sleezy, but not surprising considering who puts them together.

Your question is irrelevant. Let me explain. The Sweaty Nuts team plays only when Blast, Geese and Ducks are off. Since Geese and Blast will never play in the same tourney, that leaves very few available weekends. So, they will play in tournaments that are less desirable to the top team. This results in them playing in smaller tourneys against weaker teams, robbing those boys of opportunities for a tourney win. It’s a shame that those coaches need to put that team in those events. If you know the coaches, you know that they have an over-inflated opinion of their own boys. They are simply average. Daddy ball at its best. Just because their kids are not good enough to get minutes on their main teams, doesn’t mean they should pull the good players from those teams.

Hey, guess what genius, it is Daddy ball, that's exactly what it is!

You might have noticed the guys on the sideline spend 0 time coaching and just get the kids out and let them loose. So all of the teams with so called real coaches should be ashamed of themselves. But ask Express if they were in a B Tournament when the 'Nuts spanked them last year. 'Ain't that a kick in the .....

That’s how you justify it? Your son is going to grow up to be a loose loser like you. Get an life moron.

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There are too many tournaments out there to spread out teams. When this happens, you're either going to have situations with unbalanced talent brackets or combined age brackets. Both lead to lopsided scores.
And it will only continue to get worse in the Spring & Summer as Club Directors decided to create their own tournaments to keep more money in house.

Seen the flyer for the True Blue tourney already? That'll be a sh*t show!![/quote]

It's a charity tournament - are you seriously going to go there??[/quote]

Please tell me you don't believe that the owners of True Blue are doing this solely to raise money for a charity. It say right on the flier a " portion" of the proceeds will go to charity. They saw an opportunity when the JDRF tournament ended to run a tournament which saves their club money. The only reason they are billing it as a charity event is to get the field space for free from the town ( true story). I'm not knocking the kids or the organization but that's the truth, do the math on how much money a club team can save by enrolling their own teams in a tournament that they run and you will see why more and more organizations are following suit. [/quote]

Maybe you should experience loosing a 14 year old daughter to cancer and then comment??

Organizers of the Columbus invitational should invite 2025 Igloo and 2025 True Blue. Both of those leagues have teams in most of the other age brackets at that tournament.
They are already making plenty of money off those leagues. Therefore, it's reasonable to comp them the 2025 entrance fee. Plus since they have so many of there other teams there, they would probably go.
Then the organizers can make an A division by adding Igloo and a B division by adding True Blue.

If you want a T- shirt that badly, tell me where you want it to be left and I'll drop it off. Junior has plenty of shirts that say Champs so he won't miss one.

Look in the mirror. See that short, fat, balding, unathletic body? That’s what juniors gonna be like in high school, so you better save those T-shirt’s because it’s going to be all he has when he gets older.

Sadly junior was reduced to nothing when we spanked you in Pal. Funny how he’s nothing when he’s not surrounded by studs?

Yeah, they need to balance the brackets. Ducks B and 24 B should be in as well. If they had some foresight they could make this the great kickoff event.

Real questions here? Can someone please tell me what are the "A" tournaments and what are the "B" tournaments?

Fella, that win was two summers ago. Express wasn’t the team they are now and they were missing kids 2 summers ago, my son being one of them. You [lacrosse] clowns should be thanking the real coaches for teaching the boys how to play the game. We know you guys never played. I saw one of you trying to warm up your son before a tournament. He couldn’t even throw! Please. If you don’t see that what you’re doing is disgraceful, then Just go away.

how many kids was express missing when they got crushed by Dukes nationals 3 times this past year?

Don't expect to see the Nuts around for much longer.....

No it wasn't, it was THIS summer.

They are an all star team and should win. They aren't a travel club. It's like bragging about Sweetlax National and FCA National beating an Express or 91 team. It's not an apples to apples comparison. It's just really talented kids competed. I love how you take pleasure in a team losing.

First of all, summer is over, meathead. That would make it last summer, except it wasn’t. It was two summers ago in Sweaty Nuts’ first season. Go away. Such a loser.

If your head wasn't so far up your own [lacrosse] you would know that mixed nuts played express in 2017. your son was such a great addition he did nothing to help them out.

It is going to happen again!
It's coming, we are steaing your shirts!
These boys are lax pirates!
And to show we don't need no stinking shirts, we are
going to donate them to charity!

Maybe your jealous, bitter boy can get a donation. The shirts are usually pretty big, so if you say nice things to us we can get a shirt for you too!

Seems like most tournaments on long Island are B .only because there are so many and the competition level seems to be getting watered down with all the different so called travel clubs

Going forward. Mixed Nuts will never beat Express. All teams say they add, that team added 3 or 4 starters and they and the Geese will separate themselves from the rest of pack. Not saying that as a brag, just a fact.

Good for you

Ya but I did see some Taz kids playing in that game.

Nice try, but you are going to have to ask Channy about the requirements he has made up for only his teams to con moron parents into having their kids play down.

So you are basing it on the talent that enters the tournament. That only seems true for this 2025 age bracket. It seems all the "A" talent is on 3 teams, 91, express, and the geese. Mostly all other age brackets have better completion and have a lot more "A" teams. You cant call all tournaments "B" level tournaments just because one age bracket enters only weak talent. The only really "B" Level tournament are the Harding tournaments, they do call themselves the "Battle of the B's tournaments", all others are just tournaments. Since 91 is entering in Halloween Havoc on October 14th, does that mean its an "A" tournament??

91 is not in Halloween Havoc

Blatant and Octoberfest gets the best competition on the island in the fall. However, some teams are newly formed and like to use the fall to see where they measure out.

Ummm ... this is the first Octoberfest tournament so that's not possible. LOL
http://tristarlacrosse.com/octoberfest/octoberfest.html

It used to be the Mayflower and it was rebranded and moved to more convenient date. LOL,try to keep up. Finals was the Geese and Express last year.

Ummmm... I am keeping up. And using the Mayflower tournament makes your statement invalid as well. It was a disgrace with basically Express playing against Express. It was the worst run tournament ever. It was a total money grab.
Soooo ... in no way did it get the best competition. LOL

Mayflower is ran by express directors, you get what you deserve doing that one. IMHO it sucks, better options out there.

What tournaments are good in your opinion?

There are no such thing as a good fall tournament. Football season. Tournaments should be spring/summer only.

Want a play day in the fall....go ahead