New Scaratings

The Tampa team is suddenly homeless. There's a "closed" sign on the door at the In The Zone Pub.

Our group, which averages nearly 20 players every week, will be scouting other locations to be our new base. The team that started out at Hubb's Pubb thirteen years ago and has been forced to move three times now is on the move again.

We'll be back.

So sorry to hear this--our team definitely feels your pain. I wish you a speedy and successful search for new digs, especially since your team is currently in the top three in terms of average rank in Showdown over the past year.

For the benefit of we young whippersnappers out here, could you give a brief rundown of the places where your Tampa team has played since the Hubb's Pub days? Thanks!

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."

I know it would be a long drive, but I'd be glad to take your answers if you want to come play in Louisville

We were also #1 for the year on Don Denton's Place Points Ranking with almost a 200 point lead over 2nd place. That will go away as The Zone will not earn another point this year.

Our History:
September, 1998 - December 2001 Hubb's Pubb (Later named Bilmar Station, closed)
January, 2002 - December 2007 Rock 'n Hard Cafe (Now D/B/A Murphys)
January 2008 - October 2009 Wild Wing Cafe (Closed)
November 2009 - November 2011 In The Zone Pub (Closed)

A few of us will play tonight at Dagwoods. They don't have nearly enough playmakers for our full team so it's just a scouting mission. We're working with our NTN rep to identify a new location--not necessarily a current NTN client--that would like to have 20 new customers every Tuesday night.

That does suck. You should return to where your team play was hatched.

On second thought don't do that. Soon after you were here we had to relocate to Stadium Cafe and have been there since 2000, perhaps it's you!

The truth, BO, is you don't want me back because I might take your lunch money.

Deja Vu. Read this post on the old Scaratings a few years back.

So how did Dagwood's work out? Good sandwiches there?

It might work. It's a very popular neighbor bar with 3-4 pool tables and it was pretty loud last night making it hard for team communication. Plus it allows smoking which bothers several of our players. They offered to add 10 more playmakers to their current 15 to accomodate us if we decide to stay but we don't know yet. We may try out others or even try to convince a new place to sign up for NTN if we agree to bring them 18-20 players every Tuesday.

Don't know if they're named after the sandwich but the wings were okay but it's just ordinary bar food. In Florida, smoking is not allowed in bars that derive more than 20% of their revenue from food sales. Therefore, any place that allows smoking will not have much of a kitchen. If the kitchen draws too many customers, the drinking smokers will have to go somewheres else. It's crazy. If we want to accomodate our non-smokers, we have to find a bar with bad food.