There are regional tours and independent events operating out of a variety of metropolitan areas in the US whose promoters would sell their collective grandmothers to draw 100 entrants to a weekend tournament. Some get them, of course, but not (they’ll tell you) as much as they’d like. While there are certainly any number of USA and world-based weekly tournaments that we here at AZBilliards don’t hear about or receive information from, we do field a lot of requests for coverage on a weekly basis and we do our best to keep our ‘fielding percentage’ high enough for us to be relevant.
That said, last weekend’s (Sept. 15-17) $5,000-added Inaugural Stevie Chan Memorial drew 96 entrants to within four SE miles of Denver in Aurora, CO and here we are. Some regional tours and independent events in Texas come close to getting that ‘magic number’ of 100 on a more or less regular basis, but Texas is twice the size of Colorado (2.5 actually). The Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area’s population is twice the size of Denver’s metropolitan-area population, of which Aurora is a part. The event drew its 96 entrants to Piazza’s Italian Restaurant and Sports Bar in Aurora.
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That said, last weekend’s (Sept. 15-17) $5,000-added Inaugural Stevie Chan Memorial drew 96 entrants to within four SE miles of Denver in Aurora, CO and here we are. Some regional tours and independent events in Texas come close to getting that ‘magic number’ of 100 on a more or less regular basis, but Texas is twice the size of Colorado (2.5 actually). The Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area’s population is twice the size of Denver’s metropolitan-area population, of which Aurora is a part. The event drew its 96 entrants to Piazza’s Italian Restaurant and Sports Bar in Aurora.
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