Events

Regular meetings:

Meetings are held twice a month: second Thursdays at Refuge Gaming, 1480 Pearl Rd., Brunswick.  Fourth Monday gatherings will be held at Schnitz Ale Brewery, 5729 Pearl Road, Parma, just north of Snow Road.

Tournaments:

• The Elmira Winter Crokinole Classic, an NCA Tier 1 event, will be held on Saturday, January 17th.  Detains can be found here.  Registration will close on January 14th or whenever it is full.  As of December 11th, there were still plenty of open spots.  There are competitive, recreational and cues divisions.  It takes about five hours to drive from Cleveland to Elmira.

• If Elmira is too far for you, you could visit the TGG Con gaming convention in Kittanning, PA (home of Browncastle Games) on January 17th and 18th.  Admission is only $6/day.  Details can be found here.  Of course, Browncastle will be there, as will many other games. Browncastle will be running tournaments.

• The Windsor Crokinole Tournament, an NCA Tier 2 singles event, will be held on February 28th.  Details can be found here.  Although this is not a Tier 1 event, its location ensures that plenty of top players will attend.  .It's a 3-hour drive from Cleveland, and play is scheduled to start at 10 AM.  If you're Jim Gress, you could probably drive there, play and drive back in one day.  If you're me, you may want to book a hotel for the previous night.

• Browncastle Games will be holding its annual charity tournament on March 14th to benefit the Royal Kids Camp.  It's a unique format:  players are divided into groups of eight players each.  Each group plays a St. Jacobs-style doubles match, seven 4-game rounds, changing partners each round so that every player plays against every other player and plays with every other player as their partner during the course of the match.  After the matches are complete, the two highest-scoring players from each group become permanent partners for a double-elimination match.  The tournament is promoted through Steven Brown's church, and it attracts people of all skill levels.  Kittanning is close enough that it can easily be done in one day from Cleveland.

Other events: