In Indiana, a check of the Indiana ASA web site shows 15 tournaments listed for the year. The NSA site lists over 100 tournaments in Indiana for the year. I received an email from the NSA State UIC where she asks for help in umpiring 18 tournaments in the month of June alone.
I personally have worked 77 NSA fast pitch games so far this year (79 if you count the two rec games I did last night which use NSA rules), and six ASA slow pitch games.
At every NSA tournament I always get at least one coach who tells me his team is new to NSA because they see that they can play many more tournaments in our area. We also see teams from Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Canada because the tournaments are very well run. I'm sure the ASA tournaments are well run also, there just aren't very many of them.
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