I play in a youth soccer league. Some teams, mostly competitive ones have to travel very far distances. Once my team drove all the way to San Diego. Thats about a seven hour drive! There is more than one league and a bunch of tournaments. The Biggest League/cup there is, is the State cup. First teams choose if they want to play in it. Then they create the groups. The winners of the groups with the best scores, go into groups with the top teams and have a big competitive battle for the win. The rest of the teams from the other groups play for the winner of the bronze, silver and gold. The 6 winners of the groups and the two other strongest teams get chosen to play in the quarter, semifinal, and final. Every team that made it this far gets a medal.If you lose the quarter final you play the another team that loses the quarter final and it it keeps doing that same process. My team made it to 8th place. Which was good because about half of are team was made of kids playing up. I was a kid playing up. Now I'm on my age appropriate team with all the other kids that played up and we already tied the 1st place team in the whole area! I hope are team wins the whole League.