Ray.............
I'm sorry how this turned out for you. I hope everyone knows who the big losers are in this episode. You drove all the way there, set up your equipment and left the stream run live from 5PM until 4 AM, for free, I know because I was online watching all the time. Never mind you food and Motel room and not only the gas money to get there, but gas money to drive the whole way back to Texas. Then we have the Oklahoma guys, what more can I say about Chip, Joey, and the Backers and friends that came and waited out the whole time and even agreed to wait another day, the same as us for something that never happened. Then we had all the Railbirds and spectators that came from out of state to sweat the match. One more part of the equation, all of you customers that signed up ahead and paid ahead of time to sweat this great match that was supposed to happen...who is really to blame ? Well for those who don't know, it was the owner of the Cliffs home Pool room who was to back Cliff...Ricky Byrd !..Who would have ever thought that the owner of the room where they were going to play would not show up...and the worst part, never even attempt to make a phone call and let anyone know he wasn't going to show up. My first thought was: maybe he was in an accident because he never called, but the later it got, I was starting to realize this was not the case, I really hope He wasn't in an accident. Then someone said he called Cliff Saturday morning and the word was..hang around, it might happen later in the day. I just wanted everyone knew the whole story, what I was believed to be true, and to put the blame where it belonged, not on BigTruck, not Cliff, not Chip Compton, and not Chips backers. It's sad that something like this had to happen, but maybe it time for posting no-show money for each player and also for who ever streams the event, like for gas money, rooming and food, to make sure he doesn't make the trip for nothing and him being out a great deal of time and money also. I paid my $15.00 ahead of time for the event, and I told Ray to keep my $15.00 toward his expenses, which were probably pretty high, due to the high price of gas, and now has to drive back to Texas. There's one more thing, Rays daughters Birthday was also Friday and he missed that, to bring this match to us. I hope some other people will chip in some donations to help Ray offset some of his losses, and I have faith they will. I appreciate these streams because I used to go to many tournaments a year and play in many of them, but due to my Migraine headaches, I can no longer attend these tournaments, and I try to support these guys that stream these events because I couldn't even get out of Pa. for a cost of a tank of gas these days. I don't only support Ray, there is TAR, Inside Pool, Accu-Stats, Shannon Daulton and the lists go on and on, sorry for the ones I missed. I love the game of Pool so much and I try watch every chance I get and the amount they charge is very reasonable to me, and I'm on a fixed income, but I love the game of Pool, as many of you do also, and I'm thrilled to be able to watch these events I can no longer attend due to health problems.....This is just my Honest opinion on what happened in this situation and I feel that I am pretty close to truth of the matter anyway. So Thanks Ray for trying to putting on this event, thanks to Chip and his firends, Cliff, and thanks also to the pool fans that purchased this event in hope of seeing a great match up. I'm sure there will be many events streamed in the future for us guys to sweat, and hope to see many of my friends and fans of the game in future chat rooms when these happen..I hope all you guys have a safe trip back home or where ever you are returning to....I hope I'm not wrong on any of this information, but if I am, I apologize to anyone I offended..............duker509.............