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That’s Why They Call It A Classic! by Dean Grattidge – District Reporter Hosted by District Seven Shuffleboard Association, five Hemet venues were on hand to showcase the 15th annual CSA Soboba Classic Open Tournament. Over 320 players; 20 teams of 16 people each put their skills on the line from March 23 to March…

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: As many of our readers know, Clearwater hosted an “Amateur Invitational Tournament”. The event was held on Sat, yesterday, March 28, and I have already received enthusiastic positive reports. Stan 2015 03 29. WCD State Delegate Frank Niziolek had this to say: “Our Amateur Invitational Tournament was…

Last Saturday’s rookie tournament, held at Hemet West, started bright and early with 39 of District 7’s, new this year, players. Due to time constraints, it was a single elimination tournament. Lose one and you’re done. At the end of the day, these four ruled the boards. Sundays Championship game had these results:Right to left: …

February 6th, Friday afternoon, 1:00pm, the final game, everything on the line. As you can see, there was no lack of spectators. The games were hosted by The Royal Palms Club with the red-shirted members rooting on their players. 188 players started. 94 teams of hopefuls. In order to finish the games in 4 days,…

Obviously the Desert Challenge Trophy is a 10! District 5 and District 7 are the 2 biggest districts in California.District 7 is often called the hub of California shuffleboard because it is the largest with just over 500 members. Most all of these players are full time residents of Hemet and Sun City. District 7…

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: If you have in mind that shuffleboard is just for laid back retirees you may need to update your ideas. Only in the United States is shuffleboard a game of leisure. Stan Speaks: I present this 2006 article by Wally Seabach at this time, 2015 01 31,…

The East-West challenge has been around a while. An annual event, it pitted a 30 player Eastern team against a 30 player Western team. Though it hasn’t been played lately due to waning interest, it will be played this year in San Benito, Texas, in April. If you are interested in traveling to South Texas…

THE TROPHY IS OBVIOUSLY A “10″

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: Shufflers: That is Ivanka Trump at, where else, THE ROYAL PALMS!!  Ivanka is the daughter of  Donald Trump!!  The entrepreneur shared a couple of images from their evening out on the town, one of which shows her looking incredibly focused on the game in hand – while…

December. 29, 2014 – 4:00 p.m. – Golden Village Palms Resort, Hemet, CA President, Jay Davidson, called the meeting to order at 4:40 p.m. All participated in flag salute. Moment of Silence: Remembered all deceased shufflers Total Attendance: 29 ROLL CALL – Secretary, Rocky Raver – Present Board Members: Jay Davidson, Sharron Brown, Nelda Lichtwald,…

HELEN BELL and her birthday CUPCAKE CSA PRESIDENT, JAY DAVIDSON and HELEN BELL WINNERS: L-R CHAMP. CHUCK DAVIS, JOE JACKSON, CHARLES MORLEY and champ, DAVID COZAD CONS. champ, JAY DAVIDSON, RETHA WALKER, AL ELIAS, BILL RINDONE The year 2014 came to a close with the robust playing of the Hall of Fame Tournament in Golden…

Christmas Tradition of the Runge family from Germany. I borrow Sebastian’s “Selfie”, His First. Posted on 2014-12-17 by stanistheman Christmas surely is the holiest holiday for nearly all Germans. So it is for our family. On Christmas Eve around 4 p.m. the whole family (from grandparents to grandchild) meet in the dining-room of my parents’ house.…

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The annual CSA meeting will take place at Golden Village Palms RV Resort, on December 29th, 2014. Located in Hemet, Ca. at 3600 W Florida Ave, in the shuffleboard facility, 3:30-4:00. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

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Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: First place and the overall winner of the tournament in the black division was B.C. One, Captained by Paul Bilderback.  Top pic; Paul on extreme right. First place in the red division was the Alberta Grizzlies, Captained by Jack Sell, extreme left. The Grizzlies took overall second place…

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: The results of the third day of the Western Tournament are:  The B.C. One team, captained by Paul Bilderback, remains the leader in the black division.  The Arizona Scorpions,  captained by Gene Denny, are in second place, and the Arizona Rattlers,  captained by the Western Shuffleboard Association President, Scott…

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: The 2014 Western National Open Team Shuffleboard Tournament will be held in Mesa, AZ, with teams competing against each other from November 3rd through 8th. This is the largest shuffleboard tournament in the world!  (We hope to provide coverage!) The tournament consists of 24 teams (each team consists of 16 to 18 shufflers) from…

The District 7 annual season kick-off was held on the Valley Wide grounds. Re-named the Ray Patterson Annual Picnic to honor its long time organizer. He accepted the plaque from Don Berry on behalf of District 7. The many hours of hard work by President Lois Depesynski and Sharyn DiChiro were evident by the smoothness…

Annual Maxine Trachsel Any Doubles Tournament Held at Sierra Dawn South East.    by Dean Grattidge , District 7 Reporter. On Sept. 8-10, 40 pairs of doubles players lined up or 3 days of robust shuffling. Key personnel were George Hayes, head referee, Karla Winget, head scorekeeper, facilitator, Sharyn DiChiro and Helen Noeltner, supervising the…

Posted on September 11, 2014 by hwshuffle SDSE hosted the Maxine Trashel Any Doubles this week, Sept. 8-10. It was well attended with 40 teams of 2 for a total of 80 confident and hopeful players. The boards were cleaned and dressed, the coffee and doughnuts were served, the Pledge was said, and at 8:00am…

Originally posted on Your Source for Shuffleboard News: Ladies and Gentlemen, Shufflers All; The Courts Went Down To-day!!  The “Roll Outs” look good, very good!!  International Shufflers will remember the very good, and very similar, situation we had in Seattle for the 31st.  One significant difference;  in Midland we are located in the same arena; in fact,…

Check out this post from Stan McCormack:   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5S-VnhNeDwQ When Broohlyn is mentioned in the video, this is what they are referring to: http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/spirits/st-petersburg-inspires-hip-new-york-shuffleboard-club/2162082

2014 CSA Any Doubles June 16-19 saw the playing of the CSA Any Doubles at the fast Hemet West Shuffleboard Club. Vice President, Paul Epps had the facility clean and shiny and ever so fast. The average board played about 18 1/2 second with some faster than that. Caution was the word. After the Pledge…

The shuffleboard portion of the California Senior Games, was held at the Highland Park Senior Center, in the Pasadena area, on Thursday and Friday, June 12th and 13th. Hosts John and Barbara Irogoyen had the courts ready for play at 8:30 for the 32 entrants. Men’s and Ladies singles were first up. The players played each…

The Bonspiel, Fast Becoming A Shuffleboard Classic by Dean Grattidge, District 7 Reporter This is the 22nd year this event has been a favorite form of competition. The iconic Hemet Muni venue was once again the site of activity. This was an in house Hemet Muni event. The number of entrees was restricted to 64…

The CSA Any Singles Tournament was held May 12th – 14th in Sun City.  Liz Backus and Dick Massey  [ ATM’s ] oversaw the three day event that had 48 players.  Bridget Gerber [President] was busy attending to any area that needed help.   A special thank you goes out to Bill Strange and Bob…

Posted on May 3, 2014by hwshuffle   A District 7 tournament would not be complete without some drama! This event began on April 28th and continued on through May 1st, 2014.On day 2 of competition, the final game of the day was interrupted at about 3:15 PM, when a power outage left us in the dark. Some of…

 Once again, the Classic Team Tournament, has come and gone with many thanks to the sponsors listed here: The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians.  The generosity of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians does not go unnoticed by the people of this valley. The Bank of Hemet. Our Hometown Bank since 1974. VP Myrna Torres and…