I respectfully disagree with you here. At u9 no trip to Vegas should supersede a State Cup event no matter how shitty Lancaster or San Bernadino is.
It is good to disagree. This site is designed to share pov's.
I actually won't take my team back to vegas cup if they don't improve the competition.
Just shared my team experience, hopping to help somebody if it could.
Not trying to convince anyone. Just saying that thanks to vegas cup at the ealy age for boys, helped them to be able to manage away from home games. We used vegas as a pilot experience to eventually attended Dallas Cup, Supercopa in Chicago, many Surf Cups, International tourney in China last month and will attend spain next year. We were either champs or finalist of these said tournaments
Starting playing away from home opens a wide door for success of the players, trust me.
Staying at home its nice, comfortable, cheap, but its just home at the end of the day.
Again, it just my experience. Yours might be different. Cheers.