Our sincerest condolences to the friends and family of Sal Vasquez, as he passed away this week. Sal was a long time APA member in the South Bay area, playing on both 8 Ball and 9 Ball teams since 2007, and most recently on Thursday night 8 Ball team Yo Merito. Sal had 315 matches played in our league and died too young at age 58. He will be missed.
Southwest Challenge teams: Be sure to get checked into your rooms before midnight on the night your team is supposed to check in. If you are going to be later than that, please contact the Riviera to hold your room for you. Thursday night should feature some mini tournaments and practice. Tables are open for the entire event, so feel free to practice as much as you want. There will be a bar in the tournament room for this event for most of the hours that the big tournament is in session, so please take advantage of this. If the bar isn’t busy enough, the Riviera may not extend us this option in the future. The Riviera has adjusted their drink prices to make it a better value for everyone. Be sure to bring your skill level certification form and have it filled out by all of your team members ahead of time so that you won’t have any delays in registering your team. Registration begins on Thursday night, generally around 6pm in the tournament room. Have a great time and come on up and say hi at the main tournament desk. J
For those of you out there using the mail system, but placing your envelope in one of the in house envelopes for return: please use an envelope that doesn’t have postage paid when you do this. We pay for your postage and not using it is a tremendous waste of our resources. Once you seal that postage paid envelope or write on it, it is no longer usable. If you are going to use it and seal it, then you might as well just mail it. Thanks!