Activities @ Qualifiers (329)

When teams go to big three day tournaments like qualifiers, there are many things that they can do for fun when they are not playing. Many teams like to do team bonding activities all together, but sometimes they also like to do things with just their families, or parts of the team, since everyone can't always come or does not always want to come to everything. A lot of people like going to the mall if there is one nearby to shop. Our team has gone to the mall several times at tournaments, both all together and in groups. We will probably make a trip to the Mall of America when we go to Minneapolis for the Northern Lights Qualifier. Our team usually always goes on at least one team dinner when we are at a tournament. This is easier to do when we have the morning wave, but when we have the afternoon wave and get done later, the parents will order food to our hotel and we eat as a team there. Other things to do are go to fun places as a team, for example, there is a thing called Escape Room. Escape Room is a place you go with a group of people and literally try to escape. I have never been in one (we haven't gone to one yet) so I do not know exactly what is in them, just that they are supposed to be scary. Another fun place that I have been to during a tournament is the City Museum in St. Louis. The City Museum is less like a museum and more like a big jungle gym, but with very unique stuff. Most of the time what you can do while you are at tournaments depends on what city you are staying in. Like when we were staying in Orlando for AAU Nationals last year, it felt more like a vacation when we weren't playing because of the pools and weather.