WPBA at Hardtimes this Friday 19th -Sunday

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LAMas

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Now having sweat the Swanee, whatcha doin this Friday?

February 19-21, 2010

WPBA Regional Tour Championships

hosted by Hard Times Billiards in Bellflower, CA

17450 Bellflower Boulevard
Bellflower, CA 90706-6604

The WPBA will hold the 9th Annual Regional Tour Championships at the world-famous Hard Times Billiards in Bellflower, CA, on February 19th – 21st, 2010. Sixty-three women from across the country, and one from Taiwan, have earned an invitation to this exciting event from their respective Regional Tour point standings. The battle will determine who will become the 2009 Season Regional Tour Champion and win free entry into all 2010 Classic Tour events.

Come out and support them in their efforts to begin their professional careers!

Admission is free on Friday, and only $5 on Saturday and Sunday.

There will also be free live streaming for the event...so that we can showcase some of the new and upcoming talent. The link will be located at www.wpba.com prior to the start of the event.

If you have questions, please contact Melissa Herndon at melissa@wpba.com.
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They usually open at 11:00 AM.

Here is the player list

There are actually 64. Here is a list of them in alpha order.

Abernathy, Michelle
Aft, Dana
Andoni, Borana
Benson, Kim
Biggs, Carissa
Bourbeau, Stacie
Caulkin, Helene
Chang, Shu-han
Chen, Amy
Cole, Liz
Comitini, Julie
Cortez, Michelle
Cowan, Katie
Davids, Lisa
Duddy, Emily
Erdahl, Ashea
Flores, Rhio
Gaughran, Helen
Henderson-Major, Lisa
Hess, Tina
Jones, Kim
Kroll, Suwanna
Lampert, Amanda
Larsen, Tina
Lee, Barbara
Lovely, Liz
Marr, Lisa
McArthur-Beahn, Sabra
McManus, Erin
Mello, Susan
Menard, Veronique
Metzinger, Cathy
Miller, Briana
Miller, Sara
Mitchell, Stephanie
Morton, Linda
Nandrasy, Ashley
Neris, Shayla
Novack, Stacey
O'Hanlon, Sharon
Park-Thompson, Ji-Hyun
Paski, Vicki
Patton, Samantha
Pierce, Kim
Plowman, Bonnie
Pouncey, Sherry
Pritchard, Cheryl
Pulford, Heather
Rakin, Mary
Ritcey, Janet
Rossignol, Lara
Seto, Maureen
Small, Mikki
Smith, Suzanne
Stephenson, Julile
Stinson, Darlene
Stockstill, Eve
Strickland, Orietta
Testa, Erica
Todd, Becky
Torpin, Heather
Tycks, Janet
Williams, Naomi
Williams, Susan
 
This is the first time for Hardtimes Bellflower that I can remember. I think that Sac would also be a good pool hall as would California Billiards in Sunnyvale - both would also be be good locations in the future, This large gathering is a first for me to see. There used to be more smaller regional tournies to qualify.

WPBA Mellisa Herndon can answer your question.
 
This is the first time since this event has been going on that its been played here on the west coast. So exciting for us girls over here for once, when we always have to travel midwest/east coast to do anything.

I know for a couple of years I played it, it was held at Capone's in Spring Hill, Florida. I will not be playing in it, but will be there everyday providing the commentary for the live stream.

It'll be a fun one!

Tina Pawloski
 
Last year, I flew all the way out to Bellevue, Washington to play in the RTC's that sucked! LOL
But, it was nice to get out to another part of the country for pool.
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I hear ya!! Last year it was in Seattle.... very pretty, nice room, but hard on the eastcoast girls. jet lagged.... I suspect this will happen again this year, but I am excited to play! Should be a very fun competitive tourny.

Erica
 
erica said:
I hear ya!! Last year it was in Seattle.... very pretty, nice room, but hard on the eastcoast girls. jet lagged.... I suspect this will happen again this year, but I am excited to play! Should be a very fun competitive tourny.

Erica
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It will be a test of endurance...that is for sure. The round robin format guarantees that every girl will play 7 matches in Stage 1...and then even more if they advance to Stage 2. Then 8 will end up moving into a single elimination to determine a champion. Lots of pool to be played...so be sure to get a good night's sleep.

The nice thing about coming to the West Coast is that your body should be OK with starting at 10 am....which is actually 1 pm for you. And we won't be playing too late each night...so you won't get too tired. (It's not like when us West Coasters have a 10 am match and our bodies think it is 7 am. In Florida last year...I had to get up at 8 am....which was 5 am according to my internal clock. I couldn't have spelled my own name at that point!!!!)

Looking forward to seeing you!!

M
 
Melissa you say that there's a good player from Taiwan?:)

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LAMas said:
I see on another thread that there is no WiFI.
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There is wi-fi...but it probably isn't public. TAR streamed out of there...and we have already made sure that we have everything we need for streaming.

Barring any unforeseen issues...there will be streaming.

Melissa
 
Melissa Herndon said:
There is wi-fi...but it probably isn't public. TAR streamed out of there...and we have already made sure that we have everything we need for streaming.

Barring any unforeseen issues...there will be streaming.

Melissa
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In the other thread I said there is no wifi, wifi is wireless, they can plug into the modem and still do live streaming, just no one can get on the internet there wirelessly, so there is internet. Their router has broke down many times before they just haven't replaced the current one.
 
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