Dictating where you lay your head at night, is ridiculous! Considering, just to attend I would be in it for like $2000. What if I want to stay with my buddy Tim, for free? What if you already live in Tucson? Just stupid.........the Casino and the USBA can go suck eggs...hahahaha
I'm sure you'll have no problem filling the roster, regardless. Just get down off the high hat, please.
Jamie, I'm happy you had a big laugh about having to stay at the Casino. Since you find it appropriate to publicly trash the USBA and this event, it should be appropriate to respond publicly.
Were you really considering playing, until you heard you were required to stay at the Casino? Is that a wall you can’t climb?
Now if you would, for at least one 1 second, think like the Casino Owners, and you're donating massive space, worth thousands of $$, which is a significant donation to the USBA. They’re taking a chance on the USBA knowing full well 3-Cushion is not a major attraction. Guess what? They lost BIG at the Nationals, didn’t make money at the first event, and are still committed to finishing out the Contract. Personally I think that’s a shame they didn’t make money. I guess I’m the odd one, wanting them to profit on this and have no problem supporting the effort.
We need people that want to help grow 3 Cushion. If you want to help, god love you. If you think we're destroying the game by committing to this Casino, I'd appreciate you'd send me or Mazin a PM, or give us a call to discuss your solutions, rather than spending time on this public forum trashing the USBA, the Casino, and all the people that are working to make this a success, particularly when you have knowledge of who, what, why, where or when.
You seemingly can't appreciate the personal time, loans, donations, and effort from certain folks, which will likely never be paid back that’s gone into this tournament series. As far as this next event is concerned, we need this to be a success, so others will want USBA tournaments run in their venues. Why publicly trash this effort? Like I said, if you have a better idea or solution, lets hear it.
If you don’t have a better idea, off hand, here's one for you. Why don't you organize a 68 player tournament in GA, put your money out there to buy a sufficient number of tables, work to fill the field, get donations, collect entry fees, get sponsors, set up the tables, run the tournament,..... and come away with the venue owners making a couple of bucks. It will be a good experience and I assure you that you’ll learn something and come up with ideas to make it better the next time. How do I know that? Because that's what we're doing. Doing and Learning. Adjusting. Then Doing again.
I really don't get it. We have a good thing going at this Casino, not perfect, but trying to hold a Major USBA Tournaments excluding the "A" players, and that's not good enough either, even though this is one of the major complaints about Major USBA Tournaments.
So promoting the "B" & "C" player tournaments isn't good enough now that we're doing it. Now what do you suggest we do? Stop trying?
Cut us some slack, offer solutions, lend a hand. Simply complaining doesn’t move the ball forward.
