Tournament is very poorly run. Cleveland President's day tournament was awfully officiated. Not much expectation for quality given officials are reffing at one rink at 8am and then have to drive 30min to another rink to ref till 11pm. An official was removed from a PW game due to being intoxicated. On top of that, they have officials who can barley skate reffing PW and Bantam games Add in that we had a player injured from a hit from behind. 5min + GM? Nope. 2+10min and then one of our players gets the same penalty for pushing the kid away. Opposing coach apologies and even acknowledges they got it wrong.
Play 4 games at 4 different rinks with only 1 located within 10min of where you stay. Schedule a 930pm game at a rink 30min away and then have a 9am game the next day at another rink 30min away. Schedule changed the day before the tournament, changing time and rinks. They refuse to block schedule as it could mean one less night in a hotel and less money you have to pay. Guarantee anyone that its cheaper to book on your own. I would highly recommend anyone looking for tournaments look for ones run by an association or another organization. Easy to beat the low bar set here.
The only reason they do well is because of the buy one-get one offer for teams. Their evaluation of teams is terrible. Seen travel teams play house teams in every division. As a coach, I have never liked going to these tournaments.
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