In October of what proved to be his best recordings earning year to date (2020), Reid Vance won his first PremierBilliards.com’s Q City 9-Ball Tour event in Janet Atwell’s room, Borderline Billiards in Bristol, TN, double-dipping Dustin Coe in the finals. He actually brought home more money in each of his two previous runner-up finishes that year than he did in the victory with fewer entrants. He split the top two cash prizes in January with BJ Ussery that year and eight months later, finished as runner-up to Landon Hollingsworth in the tour’s 9-Ball Tour Championships, both also at Borderline Billiards. That banner year for Vance did not go unnoticed, nor did his improvement over the next couple of years. Although a second tour win eluded him, a marked improvement in his game led tour director Herman Parker to elevate his competitive rank to an ‘8’ last year. As is often the case, that one extra game that he had to win in all of his matches from that point on proved to be a formidable obstacle. Until this past weekend (Sat., August 5), though he made a number of appearances on the tour, he only cashed in one other event this year, splitting the top two prizes with Janet Atwell at an event in her room (again) back in March. He returned to the room this past weekend and went undefeated in a field of 30 entrants to claim his first title in almost three years, downing Jeremy Sartain twice; hot seat and finals. He completed the task having given up only six games against five opponents in six matches; a 48-6 aggregate score for an 88% game-winning average.
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