Everyone is going to have a different perspective of how a tournament went for them. My personal experience, it was great. My son got five matches against some solid competition and we were back in Lawrence before 3pm. As far as overcrowding, good luck finding a tournament that does not seem to be overcrowded. If you wanted to go to a tournament that wasn't overcrowded, you should have gone to Rossville the day after Christmas following a blizzard. It was still a great tournament and I am sure that they would have liked the weather to cooperate so that people could have complained about it being way too packed.