Lloydian's Notes

Vegas, Baby! (3)

Wow, Las Vegas is quickly becoming my second home!

My dad was always an avid pool player. When he joined a league a few years ago, I joined just to spend some time with him. It has, since, taken a much larger role in my life. The beginnings of it took place when our 9-Ball team was the only team from Arizona to make it to the national team championships in Las Vegas. At that point, I was hooked.

Last year, out of 192 teams that began the tournament, all of them finalists from various areas of the United States and Canada, our team finished in a 32 way tie for 33rd place (128 teams were worse, 32 were better).

It isn't an easy task. There are 112 teams in the Arizona region, and only four of those teams go to the team championships, so only 1 in 28 go in any one year. And since the leagues are handicapped with upper limits placed on a team's skill, equality is the rule more than the exception.

We're going a second year in a row. Given the odds of getting there at all, we've now got a lifetime of experience there.

Hello Riviera Hotel, here I come!

posted by Lloyd Lawrence @ 9:09 AM