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LV 2026 David Siegel Memorial Tourney
Posted By: Stick
Date: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at 9:59 p.m.
So starting tomorrow (Wednesday 06/10) there will be a tourney held at the Westgate here in Vegas named the 'Las Vegas 2026 David Siegel Memorial Backgammon Championship'. Now if you're anything like me you might wonder, 'Wth is David Siegel?'. Since there's a bg tourney being held in his honor I would have thought it was a backgammon player that I didn't know. They do exist from time to time. Nope. He was a founder of Westgate Resorts and he passed last April.
John Rockwell, who I do know, is the 'producer' of the tournament so perhaps John knew David IRL and is throwing it in his honor. Pure wild ass guess on my part though so don't put too much stock in it. Arda is the TD.
For a moment I thought it might be the first tourney I played in however many years it has been but then it starts on Wednesday...and Wednesdays I go to trivia. I could still enter the doubles or the main Jackpot which start later in the week but no ABT points will be had for Stick. (if you thought you were going to catch me slipping up because there are no ABT points for anyone since it's not an ABT event you got got sucker!)
One minor detail I noticed that might dissuade someone like myself entering only one random event is that there is an $80 registration fee for all participants. While this is probably the norm nowadays and makes sense for anyone attending the tournament who stays at the Westgate, I live here and can't play in the main. I don't need your 'hospitality', you can be as unhospitable to me as you like if I show up. I've also always hated that tournaments use a fee like this to cover trophies. I've complained about bg trophies since the inception of BGO. I hate them. They're mainly awkward junk that is hard to carry, ugly to display even if you can get them on the plane and get them home. Bulky, bleh, whatever. To me a registration fee comes off as a Resort Fee. It's a common way in Vegas to charge people for services they may not need or want without them having the option of opting out.
If I only wanted to play doubles for instance ($300/team, $150/player) that means I'd have to pay $230 with $80 of that going to registration and $22.50 going to the rake. I'm not a penny pinching backgammon EV nit like some that do exist and I might very well play anyway but that won't stop me from complaining about something that seems meh and maybe we could somehow do better?
Stick
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