TRIPLE DIGIT DOUBLES

Doubles 100 Tournament, starts Tuesday, January 5

The race is on to choose your appropriate, mathematically compatible doubles partner. More players means more options to choose from, and I’m sure some of you have been planning your partners years in advance... waiting for your age to actually play in to your favor! Yes, you and your dream comrade must add up to at least 100 years of age in order to pair up. We will have an A and B draw, and I will be the one deciding which category you end up in. Take careful note: I will not put any A player in the B draw, regardless of who their partner is... so choose carefully.

Waiting for the right partner over the years as players age is a clever tactic. I wonder what the future would look like in 100 years from now. Let me get my crystal ball out, tarot cards, and tea leaves and see what is in store...

…The Ford family still own the Detroit Lions and have still managed to keep them out of the Superbowl. They were close one year, but had to beat Green Bay in the ‘Frozen Tundra’ which thanks to global warming is now called the ‘Bubbling Jacuzzi’ in the divisional play-off game and with a 20 yard field goal in overtime to win the game, the Lions kicker passed out due to heat exhaustion after the snap and the Packers scored a TD on the screw up. All the games the Lions lost that season were on the final play of the game…

…Squash still is not an Olympic Sport. In the last bid, they lost out to Tiddlywinks and Toe-Wrestling…

...The Chicago Cubs have also failed to win a World Series. In fact, since 2015, they haven’t even had a winning season. Being a Chicago Cubs fan has been medically diagnosed as a suicidal tendency…

...America and Canada are still discussing the second bridge to be constructed between Detroit and Windsor. Matty Moroun stills owns it, and although he has created a fountain of youth and a cure for cancer, refuses to release it to the public and will not consider the second bridge until the Lions win the Superbowl. Obviously, it’s a no-win situation, an infinite stale-mate…

...Star Wars 22 is being released in theaters: “The Return of Jar-Jar”…

The one thing I cannot see is who will win the 2016 Doubles 100 Tournament. I guess you will have to enter and play to find out. Keep in mind the following:

1.           Register before the deadline. There is no excuse to be late. Once the draws have been released, there is no changing them. Deadline is Monday, January 4.

2.           Please, please, please, enter with a partner. Please! I beg you. This is a DOUBLES tournament. It is your task to find a partner, not mine. So be quick.

3.           100 means 100. Not 99 and 11 months.

4.           As always, each match will have a deadline for completion. BE FLEXIBLE with your schedule. We all know how frustrating it can be to arrange a time with 4 people. If you think your time options are limited, then do not enter. Simple.

5.           If you will away for a period of time during the tournament (more than a week at one time) then DO NOT enter. This happens every event, and every event the complaints come flooding in. We can’t have the event held up.

6.           Winning the category will get you a prize. Yay!

E-mail me. Get your team ready!