Brew: costs aren’t a function of the level, but largely of the amount of travel that a particular team does. In our last AA season, we had at least 27 hotel nights. That cut almost in half this year in AAA. Yes, our travel tournament expense has gone up somewhat, but our CAHA related travel is virtually zero. At AA we had 2 overnight weekends in Valencia, 2 plane trip weekends in Vacaville, and a long weekend in Escondido.. At AAA, our CAHA related travel expense is virtually zero: we have 1 night in San Jose, with games scheduled to make it driveable. At AA, we had 4 travel tournaments -- not counting the quasi-obligatory pre-tryout trip to Minnesota. At AAA, we have 5 (lumping showcases, negotiated series of games, etc. in as tournaments), some of which are at the same cities as last season. I am not saying that either experience is representative of either level, just that our AAA season will end up less costly than last AA season and that it is not accurate to say that AAA expenses are always greater than those of AA.