For a while now, we've been adding $50, ON TOP of our normal add-in for our last Saturday, No-Handicap BYP. Unfortunately, we've only had FOUR teams for the last two months. That means we've paid out $170 twice now for  just four teams.

Our budget will NOT allow us to continue doing this with poor turnouts. If we don't get at least SIX teams for this event, we will not be able to make the bonus add-in.

It's up to YOU to get yourself out to UBC,  AND to tell your friends that play to come out also!

This is a great opportunity to test your team against the best in North Florida, so don't let this event go by the wayside!

Hope to see you there!

Hugh

As of August 1st, 2010 JTSPA is an officially documented 501c, Non-Profit Organization.

This means that any donations to us will be TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

In addition, we will be trying to establish partnerships with local schools (JU, UNF, ITT Tech, local high schools, etc.) to get student interns to help us with our web-site, foos videos and general office and accounting jobs.

This is a big step forward for us. One that I hope will help us build JTSPA into a strong organization, capable of hosting several big foosball tourneys every year.

As always, we will continue to support the Hubbard House.

We always welcome interested volunteers to help us with our efforts to increase the interest in local foosball and helping Northeast Florida.Those interested can contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Hugh Wintin, JTSPA President

Lately, there's been some talk of hosting a multi-event tourney at UBC. I've been reluctant to make that commitment due to the recent poor turnouts we've been getting. In the past, half to two-thirds of the payout was paid for by local players' entry fees. Without a strong local turnout, we MUST have a big commitment from sponsors. This commitment is increased by the payouts required to bring most of the participants in from out of town.

I'll get the ball rolling on tournament formats and flyers, but we'll need to see some strong sponsorship dollars committed before we can set a solid date. For the time being, we're looking at October or November for a potential date.

If you want to help us, you can recruit potential sponsors.  Any money donated will be split evenly between tournament payout and the Hubbard House. The recruiter that brings in the most sponsor dollars will receive a package deal for the tourney*.   *=Recruiter's total sponsor dollars must exceed $200. $1000 in sponsor dollars will get any recruiter a "full boat" package for EVERY EVENT, including registration.

Hugh

Well, the Fireball Tour Kickoff event is over and J-ville was well represented. Some of the results are still pending, but from the completed and posted events we've got Rory Wiseman getting second in Novice singles, Rory and Ben Davis got FIRST IN Novice Doubles and Paul Ledger and Ben finishing second in OPEN DOUBLES. Good job guys!

Our points race got those three, and Jimmy Kirby down to South Florida for this first US event for the Fireball Table. Many thanks to the points race participants AND to Tyler Tornello, who donated $200 that was used to provide accommodations for our traveling team.

Hugh