Attention Female Players!

I think this is a fantastic opportunity not only for current WPBA pros but the aspiring pros as well. In my opinion, these satellite tours are the place to test your skill in the toughest of fields, rather than the qualifiers. I hope you can find plenty of host rooms for these!
 
I know this was already discussed, but I agree with lady9. I hope people view these events as open PRO events--- not open amateur events since you're trying to get a chance to play in a pro tour event. If you can't beat the pros in the qualifier, you prob have no business in the pro event anyways.

Just my humble opinion... don't flame me...
 
If they can get enough rooms around the country to help put these on it will help the WPBA top 40 to have the chance make up for the lesser number of tournaments they have now. I'm not blowing my own horn, (beep, beep) but I have been saying the WPBA needed 6-12 smaller tournament a year in nice sports bars for at least 3 years. As long as the members are not forced to play in them, I'm all for it and think it will be a winner. It doesn't make sense for some of the pros to go from East coast to West coast or from out of the country to play in smaller purse tournaments. Johnnyt
 
Sounds like a great tour. Very well written info on the link too.

I read something about Janet Atwell that I really liked a long time ago, and I am going to have to try to locate that thread. She is hosting the first tournament. Bravo to Janet! :)
 
Johnnyt said:
If they can get enough rooms around the country to help put these on it will help the WPBA top 40 to have the chance make up for the lesser number of tournaments they have now. I'm not blowing my own horn, (beep, beep) but I have been saying the WPBA needed 6-12 smaller tournament a year in nice sports bars for at least 3 years. As long as the members are not forced to play in them, I'm all for it and think it will be a winner. It doesn't make sense for some of the pros to go from East coast to West coast or from out of the country to play in smaller purse tournaments. Johnnyt
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Tournaments in sports bars?? That is definitely not the answer.

Pool leagues have all but moved to sports bars and all that most of them (APA, VNEA) do is take out a huge % for their operating costs that the players don't get back their true money.


BTW - nice, upfront tournament listing for this event.
 
watchez said:
Tournaments in sports bars?? That is definitely not the answer.

Pool leagues have all but moved to sports bars and all that most of them (APA, VNEA) do is take out a huge % for their operating costs that the players don't get back their true money.


BTW - nice, upfront tournament listing for this event.
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All added money and entry fees are going straight into the prize fund for this event. No admin fees or green fees are being withheld. :D
 
JAM said:
Sounds like a great tour. Very well written info on the link too.

I read something about Janet Atwell that I really liked a long time ago, and I am going to have to try to locate that thread. She is hosting the first tournament. Bravo to Janet! :)
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Janet Atwell is a terrific person as well as being a great player. She worked hard to get this event together...and I'm so happy that so many of the WPBA players are supporting her and the event.

Open registration started today...and we are already 50% full...which is terrific! Thanks for the support and appreciation...and thanks for not flaming me for posting the link in this forum. ;)
 
Love it! I really hope its successful for the WPBA, as this is a great step in the right direction. What I'd really like to see though is a massive US Open style tournament just for the women (like Barry's thing, not the current WPBA US Open). Fill up a field of 128 (or more) players, with some meaty payouts, anyone with a stick and the dough for the entry fee can play.
 
Melissa Herndon said:
Janet Atwell is a terrific person as well as being a great player. She worked hard to get this event together...and I'm so happy that so many of the WPBA players are supporting her and the event.
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Good luck, Melissa. I think you guys are really onto something cool here!

Here is the article about Janet Atwell. Though the WPBA website says she's from Abington, VA, I remember Bristol. Here's a wonderful read about Janet Atwell from P&B:

The late summer daylight is beginning to fade in the Appalachian Mountain town of Bristol that spans the border of Virginia and Tennessee. It’s only 4:45, but shadows in the downtown corridor are already long as Janet Atwell’s Borderline Billiards customers start to arrive.

Leaning against a support column in front of the historic Kress building on the Tennessee side of State Street, Atwell catches a few minutes of relief. Her back hurts. It’s already been a long day, and it will be another eight hours before it’s over. All the days have been long this year. Up until late March every day was a blur of architects, city officials, building material suppliers and contractors as the ground floor of the old five-and-dime store was transformed into her new poolroom.

The beamed plaster ceiling and the plaster walls were painstakingly restored to their original elegance. A kitchen and bar were built. New carpets. Wiring. Windows. When the twelve new Brunswick Gold Crowns and lights were installed in March, she could no longer delay opening. “I wasn’t really ready,” she says, “but I knew I’d never be ready if I waited for everything to be finished"...

...[Atwell] knows a lot about heart. Janet Atwell is investing hers in Borderline Billiards. While the crack of colliding pool balls is establishing the evening rhythm of Borderline, lengthening shadows are also spreading across Brumley Gap in the hills outside of Abingdon, Virginia where Atwell grew up on her family’s tobacco farm.

It was there, in the family’s game room, that she first played pool. “I was barely tall enough to reach the table,” she recalls, “but I loved the game from the first.” Her dad Austin joked that he’d pay five dollars if she ran a rack. “I don’t think he lost any money,” she says.

Twenty-five years ago on the farm, while she was cutting stalks of tobacco, Janet’s knife snagged on a morning glory vine, changing the trajectory of her swing. In an instant, the razor-sharp blade lacerated her ankle to the bone. Though the injury was not debilitating, she remembers it vividly. “That taught me a lesson, too,” she says. “It taught me to pay closer attention to whatever I was doing.”

It’s just 25 miles down the road from Bristol to Brumley Gap. But it’s a lifetime removed. Today, in addition to owning Borderline Billiards, Janet Atwell is a touring pro. Whenever shesteps into the bright lights ofa pool tournament in Las Vegas, or San Diego, or Albuquerque, the hot, dusty tobacco fields of her childhood are far, far away....

Read more about Janet Atwell: From Green Fields to Green Felt [Retrieved 26 May 2009]
 
poolsnark said:
Love it! I really hope its successful for the WPBA, as this is a great step in the right direction. What I'd really like to see though is a massive US Open style tournament just for the women (like Barry's thing, not the current WPBA US Open). Fill up a field of 128 (or more) players, with some meaty payouts, anyone with a stick and the dough for the entry fee can play.
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To be perfectly honest...I doubt that we could fill a field of 128+ players. I guess that this Satellite Tour will be kind of a test to prove/disprove that statement. If we have a tough time filling a field of 64 with a $150 entry fee...then we will know that we certainly couldn't fill a $128 field with a $300-500 entry fee. On the other hand...if this event fills quickly, and we have a huge waiting list...then your idea is one that we may look into in the future.

Thanks!

Melissa
 
Registered :)

Melissa, do you know how many spots had already been filled when open registration began?
 
Lea A said:
Registered :)

Melissa, do you know how many spots had already been filled when open registration began?
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LOL. Lea wants to do the math to see how many pros are in already. But to her credit and heart she is all in already. Good luck to you. Johnnyt
 
poolsnark said:
Love it! I really hope its successful for the WPBA, as this is a great step in the right direction. What I'd really like to see though is a massive US Open style tournament just for the women (like Barry's thing, not the current WPBA US Open). Fill up a field of 128 (or more) players, with some meaty payouts, anyone with a stick and the dough for the entry fee can play.
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I second this.
 
Melissa Herndon said:
All added money and entry fees are going straight into the prize fund for this event. No admin fees or green fees are being withheld. :D
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Melissa, I wish you the best of luck with this tournament and I hope a lot of aspiring pros take advantage of the opportunity to play in it.

I'm hoping the charts will be on line for us to follow the action.
 
Johnnyt said:
LOL. Lea wants to do the math to see how many pros are in already. But to her credit and heart she is all in already. Good luck to you. Johnnyt
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Haha, I was actually trying to figure out how fast the spots were going today! She said they were already 50% full and I have a friend who's not going to register until Friday. I'm a little worried she's not going to be able to get in. :)

But thank you, Johnny :) I need some luck!
 
Klink said:
I second this.
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I would love to see an open with 128 players womens tournament too, but I don't think at this time there are enough women players that can hang with the pros to get that big a field. I hope I'm proven wrong. I use to know a few women that never played in tournys or APA, TAP, or BCA. All they did was hit the bars in pairs hustling. They did quite well for them selfs too. The 4 that I knew could run out often if they had to. Johnnyt
 
Lea A said:
Haha, I was actually trying to figure out how fast the spots were going today! She said they were already 50% full and I have a friend who's not going to register until Friday. I'm a little worried she's not going to be able to get in. :)

But thank you, Johnny :) I need some luck!
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Hi Lea, Anne here at the WPBA Office :) Got your entry, good luck!

Just so you know, as of 7pm PST there are 29 spots left. As for how many pro's (JohnnyT wants to know too, lol) there are 19 Exempt Pro's competing including Monica Webb, Kelly Fisher, Allison Fisher, Karen Corr, Gerda Hofstatter, Melissa Herndon & Ewa Laurance. :thumbup:

I'm really excited for all of our players!
 
Rich R. said:
Melissa, I wish you the best of luck with this tournament and I hope a lot of aspiring pros take advantage of the opportunity to play in it.

I'm hoping the charts will be on line for us to follow the action.
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Hi Rich! There will be free live webstreaming from this tournament (all the way through including the finals!), check the WPBA website for updated info. Since Mike H. will be there I'm sure he'll have the brackets up ;)

Hi Mel ;) :eek:
 
FrogKissin said:
Hi Lea, Anne here at the WPBA Office :) Got your entry, good luck!

Just so you know, as of 7pm PST there are 29 spots left. As for how many pro's (JohnnyT wants to know too, lol) there are 19 Exempt Pro's competing including Monica Webb, Kelly Fisher, Allison Fisher, Karen Corr, Gerda Hofstatter, Melissa Herndon & Ewa Laurance. :thumbup:

I'm really excited for all of our players!
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Thanks so much for the info, Anne! I've got my fingers crossed. :) She'll probably still go even if she can't play, but I'd love to see her in the field!
 
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