I know this is going to start a little bit of a concern with some players, but I know some places got burned on this in the past. Are the tables your playing on coin operated tables? Are they vendor owned? Or are they owned by the billiard room owner? It makes a difference. MOMA (Minnesota Operators of Music & Amusements) is a group of coin-op vendors. Once in a while there will be a member of this group who will point out a location that cannot participate in MOMA because the tables are not operating on coin-op and in fact may be owned by the establishment owner instead of the vending company. That will make the teams that play out of that location NOT ELIGIBLE for the MOMA State Championships. They did that to Billiard Street not so long ago and Q Sharks as well. Biff's (before Superior Vending) got away with it for years - owning their own tables yet still getting the sanctioning through their coin-op vendor because they did the darts and other vending equipment there.
I know I might be crying "wolf" here, but I'll forewarn those people who like paying the "table time" on billiard establishment owned tables: Don't be surprised if your location gets picked on by a renegade MOMA member and next thing you know your team isn't eligible for the MOMA event. There's a reason we have to plug the tables with dollars and quarters in vendor-owned tables - because that qualifies us for this event. All it'll take is someone to see this as unfair and next thing you know there's another place ruled "ineligible" for MOMA.
Just food for thought......
John Stich
ps: I think everyone should be eiligible to play in these tournaments. I would like to see pool start going in the right direction again..... John

For pool to go in the right direction. We need to get people promoting pool who are not being charged of felony charges for fraud. I hope for all pool players that these charges will be dropped. Pool players do not need this when we are already losing players.

What does this have to do with the posting I just posted? For my friends who know me, they call me and I freely explain the "accusations". For the rest of you who post things like this on a public forum, you can lick my nuts. Get a life! John Stich

This has nothing to do with losing players.
Were losing players because playing the game of billiards has gone away from going out and enjoying the competion with our peers. Too many players are to concered with the cost of playing and how much they can win. Lets get back to the thrill of beating a better player and learning to play better.

concerned player
You know your pretty bold saying something about someone hiding behind a computer. If your going to say something like that have the balls to put your name on it you COWARD. I'll have you know John has done alot for our sport and I know for a fact he dosent ever get the credit he deserves. Have you ever put on a major tournament porbably not. Instead of putting people down all the time why not give props to the people who put these tournaments on for you. John S,Tony Z,Dean R, to name a few are the ones going out trying to promote the sport of pool. Sure they make money doing it but sometimes im sure they dont even cover expenses. So the next time you want to cut someone down why not just do this(PULL YOUR BOTTOM LIP UP OVER YOUR HEAD AND SWALLOW AND SHUT THE F--K UP)
Jeff Potts

Well said Jeff!! It is very annoying to read postings from people that always post negative comments and don't have the guts to use their name.