03-26-2002, 10:07 AM
I live in a small town and the tournaments have stopped for about a year.
Recently they started up again using the round robin format to try to get
more players involved.So far they played four tournaments with lots of
players from the surrounding areas. I missed the first two because of work.
I played the third tournament and won, but I was disappointed to see I was
the only shooter there from town. I went last week to the fourth tournament
and was happy to see all the top players from town there. I went to the tournament
straight from work and had a poor start, anyway one of the top local shooters
has a really good start. When I play someone that is close to him, he comes up and
tells me to beat the guy because he close. I beat all the guys that where close to him
and i'm on fire ( be it too late to take the tournament ). Now it's his turn to play me and
he tells me not to beat him badly, he says 10 - 7 would be good. He breaks and sinks
three balls and misses, I start shooting and when I start to get down to sink the eight
I hear him say something ( I didn't hear what it was ) and I sink the eight anyway. Later
on he comes over and tells me I f****d him. It turns out he was one point from the winner
who was from out of town. I came across this before about a year ago and I did the same thing,
beat the local player and the out of town guy won. The way I look at it is that we would not have
any tournaments without these out of town regulars ( who are more regular than the town players ).
Would any of you had played it differently? Terry knows he done the right thing. Terry
Recently they started up again using the round robin format to try to get
more players involved.So far they played four tournaments with lots of
players from the surrounding areas. I missed the first two because of work.
I played the third tournament and won, but I was disappointed to see I was
the only shooter there from town. I went last week to the fourth tournament
and was happy to see all the top players from town there. I went to the tournament
straight from work and had a poor start, anyway one of the top local shooters
has a really good start. When I play someone that is close to him, he comes up and
tells me to beat the guy because he close. I beat all the guys that where close to him
and i'm on fire ( be it too late to take the tournament ). Now it's his turn to play me and
he tells me not to beat him badly, he says 10 - 7 would be good. He breaks and sinks
three balls and misses, I start shooting and when I start to get down to sink the eight
I hear him say something ( I didn't hear what it was ) and I sink the eight anyway. Later
on he comes over and tells me I f****d him. It turns out he was one point from the winner
who was from out of town. I came across this before about a year ago and I did the same thing,
beat the local player and the out of town guy won. The way I look at it is that we would not have
any tournaments without these out of town regulars ( who are more regular than the town players ).
Would any of you had played it differently? Terry knows he done the right thing. Terry