2005 California Presidents' Day Shuffleboard Tournament
	February 17 to February 21, 2005		By Eddie Brayman... I partnered up with Lorraine Olson to run my first tournament back in February, 2001. Since then I have run over a dozen tournaments. For the most part, each successive tournament got easier and easier to run. This tournament was plagued by problems and mishaps, and was, by far, the most stressful of them all. Here is just a small sample of the problems we ran into... 1) At the last minute we were informed that overnight RV parking would not be available. 2) In the warm up event (A/B) after 3 columns of the chart had been run, Peas plunged into its most disasterous bug to date. The chart was wiped out. Within 15 minutes I was able to put things back together, but it was a bit scary (since we, at that point, had no backups, digitially or any other way). 3) Between Lorraine and I we had 5 printers with a worth totalling over $10,000. As if a force from hell had zapped us with a lightening bolt, suddenly, none of them would print a page. With the most state-of-the-art high-tech equipment smothering the huge front desk, we ended up hand writing sponsor sheets (luckily the copier on one of the printers was still functioning). 4) The huge screen TV that Lorraine purchased the 1st day of the tournament offered nothing more than the fuzziest of displays, making chart display impossible. We ended up printing charts but that wasn't enough to satisify people. Ultimately we ended up copying the Peas charts to the standard wall charts. That all said, would I say the tournament was a success? Well, money-wise, the entry+sponsor came to over $40k ($10k short of last year). We did finish on time. We had 86 players. The problems and stress level was much more than I could ever imagine could occur in a silly old shuffleboard tournament, so in that regard, I certainly learned quite a bit, but overall, yes, I think we had a succesful tournament. I would like to offer my sincerest thanks and apologizes to everyone that attended, and to those who didn't make it this year, you missed a doozie. Special thanks to Lorraine Olson, Linda Nobles, and espeically, Bill Maxwell who has bailed me out 2 years in a row. Eddie Brayman
	AB Draw   (26 teams)
	1st	Pat Bayless & Virgil Jones
	2nd	Mike Waters & Clara Kenny
	3rd	Rick Thomas (1) & Judy Morphis
	4th	Ted Curtice & John Azevedo
	5th	Mahlon Nobles & Lorraine Olson
	6th	Darrol Nelson & Linda Nobles
		Total Purse: $1,300
	ABC Draw   (13 teams)
	1st	Mike Waters, Evie Werner, Brent McQuillan
	2nd	Bill Walker, H.L. Lee, Susie Jones
	3rd	Marion Bailey, Donna Cox, Bev Chaffin
		Total Purse: $4,775
	Open Doubles   (20 teams)
	1st	Bill Melton & David Williams
	2nd	Darrol Nelson & Jim Payne
	3rd	Mike Kinney & Kenny Hawkes
	4th	Mike Keevil & Michael Olson
	Add to 3 Doubles   (18 teams)
	1st	Bob Crum & Barbara Crum
	2nd	Mike Kinney & Timi Kale
	3rd	Kenny Hawkes & Jeff Posthumus
	4th	Clark Kenny & Virgil Jones
		Total Purse: $15,050
	Open Singles   (21 teams)
	1st	David Williams
	2nd	Dave Keithahn
	3rd	Dudley Hutcherson
	4th	Bill Melton
		Total Purse: $6,425
			$10,225	$30,475		Total: $40,700