The short answer is, get used to it. How NCVA schedules its sites is not obvious, but when my daughter first started the scuttlebutt was that the sites were assigned to reflect as closely as possible the #1 team's homebase, i.e. the top seed should have the 'home field advantage." This year there seemed to be some improvements in the scheduling so that there was a little more advance notice about sites, although there were always the late changes. It seems like the NCVA does try to rotate sites so as to give each age divsion at least one chance to be relatively close to home--usually there is one tourney in the Central Cal area, one in the metro Bay Area, and one in the Sacto area, and Far Westerns in Reno for the Tahoe/Nevada group. Of course, within these areas the geography is pretty broad, and if your team moves up or down within the division, that complicates things even more. Plus, the sites are arranged before the exact team lineup for each bracket is known. So, if you have a power league player, plan on putting miles on the minivan. Area league is supposed to be more local, so if you are traveling far for that, you have a legitimate beef.