In September, Metro Sportz held a $1500 added Scotch tournament and opened up the handicaps to allow more players. The result was tremendous with 63 teams coming out to take a shot at the big money. The tournament had players in the bar all weekend long. In December, they decided to give it another go with a $500 Guaranteed Added and another $500 Added if the field achieved 40+ teams.
The turnout was a little lower than expected, but most likely had to do with the holiday season and so many players having families, work parties, etc. 27 teams did come out to compete in the 16 & Under Scotch tournament. Bernie Store and Steve Deluna bested everyone to take the hotseat and ultimately winning the finals by a score of 10 - 3 over Marvin Lawson and his partner. The Format was Handicap - 6 games so it was no easy feat for Bernie and Steve to have to race to 10 games against each opponent.