2016 18th Annual Pool Checkers Festival
Saturday, November 12th & 13th, 2016 at the
Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham, South Bend (map)
Dear Checker friends and especially Pool Checker enthusiasts,
The 18th Annual South Bend Pool & International Checker Festival will be Saturday, November
12th & Sunday, November 13th, 2016, at
Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham South Bend/At Notre Dame, 222 S Dixie
Way, South Bend, IN 46637. The Quality Inn (formerly called the Jameson Inn --
last year's location wasn't available), Microtel is in the town of Roseland,
north side of South Bend, Indiana 46637 (Take the South Bend-Notre Dame Exit 77
from Indiana Toll Road I-80-90, turn left from ramp, the Microtel Inn is across
the street from last year's location on the right), near the South Bend/Notre
Dame exit from Interstate 80-90.
Microtel Inn phone (574) 273-4300 Roger Blaine (574) 257-9033 reblaine@hotmail.com
The International / 10 X 10 / Big Board competition will be on
Sunday, November 13th at Wendy's Restaurant beside Microtel Inn, same as last
year.
More publicity will be coming later. We look forward to some sharp contests!
18
years of checker craziness!!
Come to Indiana
for the Eighteenth Annual
POOL
CHECKERS
and
INTERNATIONAL
CHECKERS
FESTIVAL!
Nov.
12-13, 2016
Microtel
Inn & Suites by Wyndham South Bend/At Notre Dame, 222 S Dixie Way, South Bend,
IN 46637
(Indiana 933 /
Business US 31 in town of Roseland - across from last year's Quality Inn)
Take the South
Bend-Notre Dame Exit 77 from Indiana Toll Road I-80-90, turn left from ramp,
the Microtel Inn
is on the left.
Saturday, Nov. 12 – American Pool Checkers
Defending
champion:
Wayne Lockheart, of Toledo, Ohio
Sunday, Nov. 13 – International (Big-Board) Checkers
Defending
champion:
Thomas
Fletcher,
from Baltimore, Maryland
--Sunday event
will be played in Wendy's Restaurant beside Microtel, 320 S Dixie Way S.
Entry fee $20
for one day, $30 for both days.
Register 9:30
a.m., begin at 10. Round robin or Swiss format.
Two divisions
if sufficient entries, divided by “South Bend Ratings” from previous years.
90%
of entry fees will go into prize fund.
Place
prizes and special bonus for game scores!
Microtel
Inn phone
and fax
(574) 273-4300.
Organizer:
Fair Play Games Tournaments,
Roger Blaine,
P.O. Box 353, Osceola IN 46561.
Phone
(574) 257-9033, Fax
(574) 259-0399, E-mail
reblaine@hotmail.com
This Pool Checker Tournament is dedicated again to two Chicago
players who passed away last year and will be very much missed: THERMAN
"CHICKEN GEORGE" EARNEST, who was one of our most
faithful participants ever since the first tournament here in 1999, playing
every year except once or twice when his health condition did not permit;
and STONEY BURKE,
a tireless organizer, head of the Chicago club, and assistant director at
National Tournaments, who still worked for the Postal Service in his
70's with over 50 years of seniority.
South Bend is
100 miles from Chicago,
140
miles from Indianapolis, 200 miles from Detroit.
2016 Tournament Dates |
2015 Results
|
2014 Results |
2013 Results |
2012 Results
Mark your calendars!
Regards,
Roger
Studebaker
National Museum – University of Notre Dame – College Football Hall of Fame