2009 11th Annual Pool & International Festival

The 11th Annual Pool and International Checkers Festival will be held
October 10th - 11th, 2009 at Jameson Inn, 215 Dixie Way S., South Bend, Indiana.

Fair play games tournaments
presents the 11th annual…

pool checkers
and
international checkers festival!

          Oct. 10-11, 2009            

Jameson Inn, 215 Dixie Way S., South Bend, Indiana 46637
 Same hotel:  1-800-822-5252 - Local phone (574) 277-3211 – formerly called Signature Inn
(Town of Roseland, on Ind. 933 / Business U.S. 31, just north of South Bend-Notre Dame Exit 77 from Indiana Toll Road I-80-90)

Near Notre Dame!  Convenient to Chicago, Toledo, Indianapolis!
 

Saturday, Oct. 10 – American Pool Checkers

Defending Champion: Class A, Al Lambert;  Class B, Rush “West Virginia” Addair.

Sunday, Oct. 11 – International (Big-Board)

Defending Champions:  Charles “Pecan” Thompson & Arthur “Sonny” Bell

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Entry fee $20 for one day, $30 for both days.

Register 9:30 a.m., begin at 10.  Round robin or Swiss

 format, no. of rounds may be adjusted according to entries.

 

90% of entry fees will go into prize fund.

Place prizes and special bonus for game scores!

 

Jameson Inn Reservations:  1-800-822-5252.

Local phone (574) 277-3211.

Organizer:  Fair Play Games Tournaments, Roger Blaine 
P.O. Box 353, Osceola, IN  46561   (574) 257-9033  reblaine@hotmail.com

South Bend is 100 miles from Chicago,

140 miles from Indianapolis, 200 miles from Detroit.

 

Studebaker National Museum – University of Notre Dame – College Football Hall of Fame

RESULTS:

   "PECAN" THOMPSON DOMINATES SOUTH BEND CHECKER TOURNEYS!
 
Charles "Pecan" Thompson, Carol Stream, Ill., won both events at the 11th annual Pool and International Checker Festival on Oct. 10-11, 2009, in South Bend, Indiana.  He scored 37 out of a possible 44 in Pool Checkers on Saturday, with Fred Shurn of Maywood, Ill., second at 32.   "Pecan" then won top prize in International or Big-Board Checkers on Sunday with 3 wins and a draw, or 7 out of 8 points.  Organizer Roger Blaine was second with 5.  We will send a complete crosstable later, with a few game scores.
 
Standings in tie-break order:
 
Pool Checkers - Sat. Oct. 10, 2009
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Player              

Points
1 Charles Thompson "Pecan"              37
2 Fred Shurn 32
3 Jim Sharp "Pontiac" 30
4 Arthur Bell "Sonny" 27
5 Therman Ernest "Chicken" 25
6 Lee Pittman 25
7 Andrew Young "Twin" 19
8 Herman Joiner 19
9 Ernest Lee "Rome" 19
10 Roger Blaine 11
11 Stoney Burke 11
12 Roberto Ernest "T-Rex" 9

 
International Checkers - Sun. Oct. 11, 2009
NO

Player              

Points
1 Charles Thompson     7
2 Roger Blaine 5
3 Arthur Bell 4
4 Roberto Ernest 3
5 Pete Luhr 1

Cross-Table  <>   Ratings

2009 Tournament Dates