"It is hard to remember that your intention was to drain the swamp,
when you are waist deep in aligators!" (source unknown)
When I was posting the marque for the tournaments at Southaven Rec and Tank's House of Diamonds,
both of which are the second weekend in May, I recalled one of the reasons this discussion board was started in the first place. That was to provide a place
where Room Owners and Tournament Directors could share preliminary information about scheduling tournaments.
Ironic as it is, several years ago I was in Memphis at Highpockets and the owner at that time, Bob, invited Little Sam and I to come back up for a tournament.
He said he understood if we didn't come, since there was a tournament scheduled the same weekend at the Greenroom in Hattiesburg. We talked about how room
owners don't intentionally schedule tournaments on top of each other, and that the flyers probably passed each other in the mail.
My idea as I told him was to provide a place where Room Owners could post information regarding tournaments they are "THINKING" about having. That
was when the Tournament Calendar was added as a page on the Southern Billiards web site. Due to it requiring some
much time of us (actually of Plowboy, the Southern Billiards webmaster) the Tournament Calendar was moved to this, the Southern Billiards Discussion Board,
where people could make their own posts.
The idea being that Room Owners and Tournament Directors could post that they were "THINKING" about etc., etc., etc. And then other Room Owners that
were "thinking" about having a tournament around the same time could coordinate their tournaments. However, that doesn't really work, since the
Room Owners thoughts would turn into "facts" throught word of mouth as it passed among pool players. Mis-information is not something we need more
of for sure!
Back to draining the swamp . . .
A new forum has been added entitled: "Room Owners Private Forum".
The purpose of the forum is simply for Room Owners and Tournament Directors to share information about tournament they are thinking on
possibily having.
The forum is invisible and can only be seen and accessed by those that have been granted access to it. To those that are
given access it will appear just below the "Peanut Gallery" (live chat) forum.
I have granted access to some of the Room Owners that I know, which are:
greenroomgal
southavenrecreationcenter
BreakandRun
tank or tanks
stickspoolroom
Jmonday42
pioneer9ball
Thus, the Room Owners Private Forum should be visible (beneath the "Peanut Gallery" forum) and
accessible by those listed above.
Any Room Owners that wish to have access to this private forum simply need to contact me to gain access.
If you are a Room Owner, what can you do?
Encourage the owner of the room you play in to get access to the Room Owners Private forum and use it when they scheduling a tournament or other event.
It will probably take a while, but hopefully we can lower the water level in the swamp. We will see.
But I have
nothing to do with this board. It's all run from Starkville. I still think the concept is real strong, and could be a great source of info; but y'all
know how independent poolroom owners are...
. Two
months, eh. Dang, and you look so much older than me 
