- Jun 22, 2008
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ASA kept insisting on hosting their tournament in EBF locations and finally a bunch of CA teams got sick and tired of going to Normal, IL, Salem, VA and Plano, TX so they decided to host their own tournament in Huntington Beach, CA, as the rest as they say "is history"!
Some of that was of their own doing. At that time and still at certain levels, ASA accepts bids for most national tournaments. The better of the bids would host the tournament. For as big as CA was especially when it comes to softball, I was surprised there were not more bids from the CA locations. You cannot win if you do not play. The general counsel voted on USA national locations, while only regional reps would vote on the location of the ASA national tournaments taking place in their section of the country. Granted, many times these tournaments would be allocated through mutual agreements in meetings of those representatives to avoid a bidding war and higher fees. Those who bid still had to meet the specifications any other national was.
One of the major complaints I never understood was that many of these places did not have an amusement park, beaches or some other high-level form of entertainment. I guess it was sort of silly to think that when a team traveled to a national tournament, the focus should be on playing ball.