No Vegas for Us
Posted 4 years, 4 months ago on Monday, March 1st, 2004 under Billiards · No Comments ·
Thanks to yours truly, our 8-ball team isn’t going to Vegas this year. I lost my match 3-2 in a race 4-2. She was just too strong a 3 for me to take. Combine that with all the stress of the tournament and life, and it was destined for disaster.
I’m really not happy at all about it, but I do rest easy konwing that my team doesn’t blame me. Nearly all of us have been responsible for the loss of a tournament here and there, and a few of us for tournaments with a lot at stake.
The team disbanded Saturday night after the tournament… we just didn’t have the heart to go on. I’m considering letting my APA membership just expire… this whole handicap thing is really getting to me. There’s just too much energy spent on working the system to make the best of the handicaps (or flat out cheating the system with sandbagging), and too little energy spent on playing good pool for my tastes anymore. I’ll think on it, and probably talk to a few people about it. Right now, though, I’m discouraged.