A couple of months ago Elton Homesley sent out a request for comments on the 42 Tournament at held at TICC this past year. We are considering holding it again this year but we need your feedback. Please read Elton’s letter again and respond with your comments to either Elton or me as soon as possible. Also, anyone interested in running the tournament please let us know. We can be reached at toko@goshawkenv.com or danap903@comcast.net
Here is Elton’s letter:
Hello everybody!
I hope you all had a good time at the TICC domino tournament. I know that it has been a few months since that occurred, but I think I need to wrap things up for whoever will do it in the future. Most of you may know that there are going to be more of these events at other large cookoffs and I hope that TICC will keep going too. However I will not be running any of them. But I won't just drop out completely. I am trying to put together some of the things that proved to work pretty good so that other big time 42 tournament operators can have some starting groundwork to build on.
Most of you either played in the TICC 42 event or helped with the logistics. Some did both. Since then I have been queried for other tourneys at other cookoffs. So now I would like the benefit of your thoughts. I am not looking for pats on the back or grumblings because you didn't win. I want to know from each of you:
What you think could be improved?
What didn't work smoothly?
What would you like to see changed with the tournament organization?
With the selection of teams?
With the number of teams limitations?
With the advertisements ahead of time?.
With the assignment to the various first levels of play?
How about the prizes? Entry fee? Giving money to the CASI Scholarships? Playing environment?
Timing of games?
Any thoughts you might have with any aspect of the tournament.
Whatever you provide will hopefully help improve future tournaments, gamesmanship, and/or fun for all. And most of all it should help future promoters of 42 tourneys for the betterment of chili cooks everywhere who look forward to active evenings around a domino table.
Thanks for your help! Send your thought to me at toko@goshawkenv.com
NOTES:
Have you sent in your registration information for the Great Pepper's Meeting. If not, here is the Registration Form.
How Dry Is It In Texas?A buddy out of Longview said he'd killed a mosquito that was carrying a canteen.
A man in Dime Box said the chicken farmers were giving the chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
In Lake Palestine , they caught a 20 lb catfish that had ticks on it!
But just this week, in Bryan, a fire hydrant was seen bribing a dog.
It's so dry in Texas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet-wipes,
the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks, and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.
Now THAT's Dry!
A man in Dime Box said the chicken farmers were giving the chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
In Lake Palestine , they caught a 20 lb catfish that had ticks on it!
But just this week, in Bryan, a fire hydrant was seen bribing a dog.
It's so dry in Texas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet-wipes,
the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks, and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.
Now THAT's Dry!
HAPPY JULY 4TH
