ASA Committee Meetings Underway

[NDblue]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

ASA seems to be getting more involved in McQuade & Cincinnati tournaments.

What does this mean that ASA is getting more involved?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by NDblue

What does this mean that ASA is getting more involved?

As in recognizing and supporting them as important ASA events.

[NDblue]

So, it's taken the ASA 35 years to recognize that the largest slowpitch softball tournament in the world is an important event? Now they want to jump on the bandwagon? We'll welcome it with open arms.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by NDblue

So, it's taken the ASA 35 years to recognize that the largest slowpitch softball tournament in the world is an important event? Now they want to jump on the bandwagon? We'll welcome it with open arms.

Well, don't know if that is completely true. There used to be an amazingly large tournament in Richmond that was pretty renown in it's time. Then again, there wasn't a Team USA for slowpitch at the time.

[NDblue]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Well, don't know if that is completely true. There used to be an amazingly large tournament in Richmond that was pretty renown in it's time. Then again, there wasn't a Team USA for slowpitch at the time.

Don't know if what's completely true?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by NDblue

Don't know if what's completely true?

That McQuade was the largest softball tournament in the world for the past 35 years.

The Richmond Round Robin has been around 41 years and though not as many teams come now, at one time routinely reached 400+ teams.

I figure it is just a matter of the game peaking at different times in different areas.

[NDblue]

The McQuade wasn't very big last year because of flooding issues. We we short 22 fields so they had to cut over 300 teams from the tournament otherwise it would have been another record of 400+ teams in a 3 day tournament. This is a full bracket tournament except for the A/B open which starts as a round robin.

There's also a tournament in Bosnia usually played the same weekend sponsored by the same entity so that make the McQuade tournament international or is that called "interglobal".