I said this before, but we did have parents freak out about Summit fees this year. Most of them relaxed once the numbers were laid out for them (the numbers seem reasonable to me). But one or two are still in an uproar. Like, maybe they thought the Summit was free?? Weird, because those same athletes went last year. I think, during this stressful part of the season, it's easy to act as if these costs are a surprise. When you've been attending comps for weeks on end, maybe you're bank account would like a break. I get it. I don't get freaking out. But I think, as a parent of a child on a team, it's reasonable to expect the other parents to be planning on covering their portion of he expenses (obviously life happens and things come up). Our first Summit season, I HAD planned...and then I was hit with a massive tax bill...but I figured it out. The case with our parent who has two children on the team (yeah, I'm sure that sucks, but not my problem), she should probably stop talking about the cruise and trip to Hawaii that she has scheduled for her family. It makes me a little less sympathetic that she can't deal with an increase of $65 from last season (only one team attending, so fewer to pay).