This past weekend, my 9-Ball team, "Who's Next?", played in the Dallas APA 9-Ball city tournament. We wanted to win our way to Las Vegas for this year's 9-Ball National Championships.

Well, Saturday at CJ's Billiards went well for us. We won in both the first and second rounds and thereby got the third round (Saturday night) off since that was an elimination round on the loser's side of the bracket.

We had played against two very good teams Saturday; one from Quinlan, and the other from Royse City... both teams had great players and great people on them and we enjoyed playing both matches. The beer was cold, but the club wasn't. The A/C wasn't exactly working at 100% levels, and it was 100 degrees outside...

So; Sunday morning, round 4 comes around. I'm there, along with 4 of my 7 players. One player wasn't eligible for the tournament (she joined the team too late in the session to get 10 matches in). Two players missing wouldn't normally be a problem; but they were my skill level 4 players that I really needed. As it was, with the skill levels I had at hand, I couldn't play all 5 match-ups in the round... So, we ended up getting bumped out in round 4. While Saturday is double-elimination; Sunday is single-elimination and we were out. Disappointing on many levels.

Work is really difficult right now; I'm working between 12 and 14 hours a day. The project I'm on (a big one) is due to ship shortly and there are way too many things not working properly yet. We'll get it done, but boy is it a pain!