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American footballYouthDec 5 – 12, 2026Researched by us

AYF National Championships 2026

Princess Anne Sports Complex — Virginia Beach, Virginia (US)

GameVoyaGradeD42/100
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Theirs, from the teams who went

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D · Weak on paper42/100

The published terms work against the team: dear per game, refunds that keep your money, a mandatory hotel block, or some combination. This is what the organizer states, not what teams reported.

Grade components

Value for money20.5 / 41
Terms and transparency10 / 37
Exposure for players11 / 22
How this is calculated

How much of this is published

Thinly published1 of 4

Almost nothing is published, so the grade sits near the midpoint of every range by default. Read it as "unknown", not as "average".

The four gradeable facts are the entry fee, the refund policy, the hotel requirement and the guaranteed game count. Anything the organizer leaves out is priced at the middle of its range rather than counted against them — most operators quote on application, and a grade that punished silence would be reporting our own missing data as their failing.

  • Refund terms not published+6.5
  • Stay-to-play enforced0
  • Game guarantee not published+3.5
  • Organizer not yet verified0
  • Exposure not published+11

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What attendees rated

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Coaches, managers, parents, players, officials and scouts who attended. Never the organizer.

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What to expect

The national championship week of American Youth Football, open only to teams from member associations and reached by winning a regional championship. The operator publishes the football venue -- Princess Anne Sports Complex in Virginia Beach, with check-in at a named hotel nearby -- and publishes that the championships are held every December, but had not published the 2026 dates when this listing was compiled. The recorded window is the customary early-December championship week and is ours, not the operator's; confirm the exact days with AYF before booking anything. Recorded as requiring the hotel block because the site sells its accommodation as "stay to play room blocks", which is a requirement whatever else it is called. No entry fee is published on the championship site -- a team's cost sits with its association's membership and its travel -- so nothing is recorded in the cost column rather than a figure being inferred, and no game guarantee is possible in a single-elimination national bracket.

What it costs

Team entry feeNot publishedThe organizer publishes fees only inside their registration portal.
Games guaranteedNot publishedNational bracket by division, single elimination
Cost per guaranteed gameNeeds both a published fee and a published game guarantee
Hotel blockNot publishedMandatory — stay-to-play enforced.
Refund policyRefund terms not publishedNo refund terms published.
Registration deadlineNot publishedAsk the organizer when entries close — they have not published a date.

What a player gets seen doing

Not published

11 / 22 exposure points

The organizer publishes nothing about scouts, streaming, video or stats. That is normal for a house or in-season tournament and is not held against the event.

Not stated by the organizer

  • Scouts and college coaches attend
  • Showcase format
  • Advances to a championship
  • Games streamed
  • Game video for teams
  • Live stats and standings
  • Professional photography

Silence is scored as an unknown, not as a no. Nothing here is deducted for a feature the organizer simply did not mention.

Format and divisions

Age brackets
Not published
Competitive tiers
Open entry
Field size
Not published
Fields in play
Not published

Reviews

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