Brian Crawford Memorial Tournament History
Brian Crawford Memorial Tournament History
A documented longitudinal history of the Brian Crawford Memorial Tournaments—following the event from its early single-site years through regional expansion, peak participation, facility migration, officiating demand, and the financial and economic measures contained in the Hidden Valley research model.
From Memorial Tournament to Regional Event
The records begin in 2006 at Shawnee’s Lions Club Ballfields with 57 teams. The tournament later moved through Norman and Chickasha, shifted to Choctaw in 2016, and expanded across multiple Oklahoma communities and facilities. The 2018 season is the dataset peak with 170 teams, 497 minimum games, 901 minimum umpire assignments and $33,659 in recorded team entry fees.
Teams by Season
Recorded Team Entry Fees by Season
The 2009 source value is preserved at $0 rather than estimated.
What the Case Study Shows
The Memorial developed from a single-site tournament into a multi-site regional operation, particularly from 2017 through 2020.
The largest seasons coincide with the broadest facility footprints. This is a descriptive association, not a causal finding.
2,900 minimum games generated 5,279 minimum umpire assignments—about 1.82 assignments per minimum game.
Recorded entry fees are separated from modeled gate, concessions, umpire fees, event net and economic impact.
Seventeen recorded seasons provide a benchmark for tournament growth, facility dependence, labor demand and event economics.
Modeled Financial & Economic Context
Year-by-Year Source Reports
Open the Hidden Valley event report for each recorded season.
Full Case Study Documents
Executive In-Depth Summary
The professional case-study summary covering methodology, longitudinal development, annual event profile, labor demand, financial interpretation, findings and limitations.
Open Summary PDFConsolidated Event Report
The four-page Hidden Valley event report containing facility, municipality, director, annual entry-fee, gate and umpire-fee views plus the 21 event records.
Open Event Report PDFLegacy, Evidence & the Next Chapter
The Brian Crawford Memorial case study preserves two stories at once: the human purpose behind a memorial tournament and the measurable operating system required to stage youth-sports events across communities and facilities. Future primary records—such as invoices, gate sheets, contracts, schedules and contemporaneous tournament files—can be used to validate or refine modeled financial measures without changing the documented event-history baseline.