2026 International Open in St. Augustine?

[Briantime]

Sorry if this has already been addressed but my searching did not yield any results.

Is this tournament happening this year? Website has only question marks for dates.

 

[jax_joe]

No, canceled for the year

 

[Poolhall60561]

Sorry to hear that

 

[jax_joe]

Sorry to hear that

It was pretty sweet having that right here in my backyard. The Predator event hopefully will be good this year even though they won't be having championship like last year.

 

[axejunkie]

I feared that, attendance seemed down in 2025 from my visit there. Hopefully it only needs a year off and possibly a different set of dates.

 

[chevybob20]

I got to play last year in the semi pro event and loved it. I like that he had a 650 fargo cutoff for the event.

I heard that he lost money multiple years in a row and the pro players complained about the payouts.

I will miss it.



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[lfigueroa]

Played last year -- the setup was lovely.

However, the days I was there it seemed poorly attended by spectators. And it was a one match a day slough. Anywhos, finished tied for 12th-18th in the 1pocket.

Lou Figueroa

 

[jax_joe]

I heard that he lost money multiple years in a row and the pro players complained about the payouts.

From the email I got from Pat:
"we will skip 2026 due to scheduling conflicts. We'll look forward to 2027"

 

[sjm]

Sad to hear. The International offered many years of very entertaining, high-level pool.

 

[cuedoctor]

Many great years at Norfolk Va. Sad when us open and international left for what they thought were greener pastures.

 

[billb]

Host it in Norfolk like before or even at Q-Masters. Just a thought.

 

[cuedoctor]

Just heard the Bull carbon tournament "Battle of The Bull" has also been canceled due to schedule conflicts. Seems like the bigger events don't really care about other tournaments in the USA. Heard they were told to move it to December which the host said NFW. These other tournament promoters know exactly when established long time events are planned but don't care and schedule there's instead of communicating to help pool players have more opportunities to earn a living.

 

[garczar]

Just heard the Bull carbon tournament "Battle of The Bull" has also been canceled due to schedule conflicts. Seems like the bigger events don't really care about other tournaments in the USA. Heard they were told to move it to December which the host said NFW. These other tournament promoters know exactly when established long time events are planned but don't care and schedule there's instead of communicating to help pool players have more opportunities to earn a living.

Please can all the doom-n-gloom. Running tournaments is a BUSINESS, there's only room for so many. In another post you mentioned the US Open and Int'l, well the USO for one has done fine since MR bought it. Full fields and bigger purses every year. I'd love for Pat to survive-n-thrive but imo he's a small fish trying to swim with sharks and without major sponsor $$ its gonna be tough. Yes, in a perfect world all the organizers would have a big pow-wow and iron out schedule conflicts but i don't see that happening anytime soon. I remember not that long ago when people bitched about not enough events and now there's too many. The big will survive, just how it works.