10/21/2021
Good evening, Tour Members and Sponsors!
WOW!! Talk about having a Finale! Thank you to all 105 players who made it out to Main Street Billiards on Saturday for the 7th event we hosted: The FINALE!
Congratulations to "4 losses in 10 minutes" Duncan Weiss on coming back from losing his very first match in the tournament to end up battling Alicia De Leon in the Finals. Alicia had made her way through to the Hot Seat and finished as the top female shooter for the event! Part of what made this post difficult was giving our Finale Champ the proper respect detailing the endeavor he had to go through to get to the finals against Alicia. He made a wonderful post explaining his journey (including 14 wins to being Finale Champ) and we congratulate him on job well done! Please check out his page and personally congratulate him! In this Finale post we didn't want to just take the time to congratulate Duncan on his amazing accomplishment; but also, all the Tour Stop Champs.
The first event we had was at Bull Shooters back in February of 2020 where Cory Wheeler became the first Tour Stop Champ. After our first stop we were faced with the challenges presented by the pandemic. We had to work through these challenges by changing the entire schedule we had! In reality, we are incredibly honored to have been able to start back up over a year later in May of 2021 at Main Street Billiards where Champ Tony Yuzuik was victorious at Stop 2. Next, we traveled down to Tucson in June to play at Pocket's Pool & Pub where Jahnythan Craig won our first big table event and title of Tour Stop No.3 Champ. Part of the complications of this event was losing 2 of the locations we had scheduled for events... Thankfully Michael J. Bates stepped up to the plate and knocked it out of the park allowing us to have our next 3 and final tour stops before the Finale at Bull Shooters. The events alternated with 10-ball on the 7ft, 9-ball on the 9ft and then finally 10-ball on the 7ft tables again. Congratulation to Champ Hugo Villanueva for winning Tour Stop No.4 back in July and your accomplishment! Congratulations to Champ Brandon Jewell for winning Tour Stop No.5 back in August! Special shout out to Brandon because this was his first big tournament and he snapped it off! The last stop before the Finale we had something nobody thought would happen, a repeat Champ! Congratulation to Jahnythan Craig for winning Tour Stop No.6 in September!
Thank you, Michael J. Bates, Thor Skogan and Curtis Johnson, for accommodating our tour and having great venues with great service for our events!
Thank you, John Sanchez with Qual-Tech, for the adding $100 to every Second Chance Tournament on Sunday during the season!
For the Finale we have many to thank! First, a big thank you to Thor Skogan for the added $2000! Also, thank you to Craig Herman for adding an additional $300 to the Finale!
Robert Rinehart, for the added $200 and Sophia Renee Balancad for the added $50 to the Top Female Player of the Finale. Alicia De Leon was the recipient for these generous donations!
Thank you, Steven Lingafelter, for supporting the OG players of the tour. The recipient for this generous $100 donation was Joe Carminati!
Thank you, Christopher Negrin, donating $200 to the 8 players that were one out of the money! These players were Rich Mamerto, Eric Menard, Scott Volgelsburg, Tony Yuzuik, William Courtright, Kyle Drake, Matt Dawson, and Mike Howerton.
As always, thank you to our sponsors for supporting these events, we couldn’t do it without you!
Check out the tour website, it provides all Sponsor contact information and websites: azpooltour.com/sponsors
Peggy Mallen
Joe Avila
George Galvan
John Sanchez
Mike Gwinn
Priscilla Hernandez & Eric Lervold
Craig Herman
Gary Englehart
Tony Page
Jeremy Ross
Steve Wilson
Jose Gonzalez
Todd Rowitz
Robin Clark
Gil Franco
Corby Dayhoff
Bodyworks George Odishoo
– Jeff Nelson, Mike “World Be**er” Ramirez, Ray Robles, & Steve Lingafelter
The sponsors support the pool community in many ways, so check out their services to support them as well!
At the event we took a vote amongst our players to vote on who would receive the Sportsmanship Award. The players spoke and nominated Cleveland Baylor Jr. for this award! Cleveland was awarded $250.
Congrats to the points leaders for the season!
Jahnythan Craig – 525 points ($1000)
Hugo Villanueva – 515 points ($750)
Aaron Horvath – 400 points ($500)
Our Top Female Player was Jay Succo ($250) and Top Junior Player was Jahnythan Craig ($250).
Congrats to all players!
To view any of the season matches, go to the We Play Billiards FB page!
As this season comes to an end, we are happy for the turn out & support and sad that it has come to an end. We have decided to take some time off before scheduling any future events. Again, we are so grateful for the support because this tour would not have been such a success without you and for that we thank you all again!
Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all in the future!
Priscilla Hernandez, Eric Lervold, and Tim Daniel
