People started responding to the email with the room block link with "It's cheaper if you book without the link!"
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Seems like my daughter's travel hoops team plays in a bunch of those and we do get some team discounts on hotel rooms, but there's never been an issue that we HAD to stay at the team hotel. In fact, some families live close enough to travel back & forth from home or stay with family.
Maybe it's because that while my daughter's team is small, the organization itself is quite large.
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Apparently it's "stay to play", so the team has to have at least 8 rooms booked from the official tournament hotel block. There's more than 8 families and the tournament hotel is both not cheap AND far away from the tournament site.
RIP the team manager parent's text inbox, she's already hearing from people that dont want to use the official hotel. Also, only 3 kids from the B team were invited to attend, despite more than 3 occasionally subbing with A team.