Are you saying these are 18u "C" tourneys?We have 18u in PA. In fact, most local 18u tournaments attract more teams than 16u. The bigger tournaments will attract more 16u. In many cases, the 18u teams are mostly made up of high school players that don't have a real desire to play at the college level. Or are already committed. Our team played 1 year at the 18u level and then moved up to 23u.
This brings up another question, where are these 23U tourneys? Here in Houston, there are a lot of college players that come home for the summer. There were some organized games put together. Houston vs Bryan/College Station players, and my DD did workouts with a bunch of some very talented players. But the workouts were chill and low key. My DD really enjoyed it since she hadn't been able(let's be real, she chose not) to do anything softball since March. Because of the extreme heat here, I am pretty positive that most players are glad they are not playing tournaments in the summer anymore. I remember telling DD, this is the last time you will ever have to wake up 5am to be at the fields at 6:30am for warm ups! This is the last time you will ever have to play a game in 100 degree heat! She does not miss the TB grind. The College grind is a new but different grind.