give your opinion

I like the idea of being able to determine who is attending beforehand.

Would I would really like to see, however, is a mechanism by which teams, in planning their seasons, could coordinate with other teams and create well-attended tournaments. One way to do this would be via a website that was searchable by tournament and divisions on which teams could post their planned schedule together with contact information for the manager. You could search prospective tournaments in your area to determine planned attendance. Then managers could coordinate and adjust schedules to create better attended tournaments.

Let's say my team is planning on attending a tournament in Cullman, AL on a given weekend. I search the website and find out there are three other teams planning on attending that tournament, but I also find that there are four teams in our same classification planning to attend one in Gadsden, AL a week later. Coaches could coordinate with each other and potentially adjust their schedules so that we could have a tournament with a much better eight team bracket. All this would have to be done fairly early in the year so that schedules, travel plans, and vacations could be set.

Obviously, the sanctioning organizations are not interested in providing a venue whereby teams might opt for another organizations tourney. Such a website would almost have to be put together independent of the organizations. I lack the technical expertise to put this together but I wish someone would.

Thoughts?