Approaching 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, September 10, the PremierBilliards.com’s Q City 9-Ball Tour and the two finalists at a $500-added event, which drew 33 entrants to a new tour venue, Orange Billiards in Knoxville, TN, were faced with a dilemma. A Knoxville ordinance dictated that patrons and employees of an establishment had to vacate the premises by no later than 3 a.m., or face hefty fines. In order to facilitate compliance, officials at Orange Billiards informed the tour that the event would need to conclude and its players be out of the building by 2:50 a.m. The potential double-elimination final would need to finish in under an hour and 20 minutes.
Go to post
Go to post