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Remember this tournament from 11/26 to 11/28 2013?
VanDerveer earns 900th win as Card sweeps through Puerto Vallarta
I found an announcement of the tournament.
C and R  blog on the games.
The box score for the tournament (with no TV (nor radio, IIRC)) shows an attendance of 100.

I personally get suspicious at the funding of such a tournament with no particular source of income. Even if the teams pay to play (plus their expenses), it can't be that profitable.   I can imagine the hotel not charging for rooms and then writing the (inflated) cost of rooms as a write-off.

(Speaking of hotel room cost, I just stayed at a Days Inn in the Pasadena area, with rooms in the $130 range.  But the price listed on the back of the door was $799.  Rose Bowl price or way-beyond-even Rose Bowl price?)

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Remember this tournament from 11/26 to 11/28 2013?
VanDerveer earns 900th win as Card sweeps through Puerto Vallarta
I found an announcement of the tournament.
C and R  blog on the games.
The box score for the tournament (with no TV (nor radio, IIRC)) shows an attendance of 100.

I personally get suspicious at the funding of such a tournament with no particular source of income. Even if the teams pay to play (plus their expenses), it can't be that profitable.   I can imagine the hotel not charging for rooms and then writing the (inflated) cost of rooms as a write-off.

(Speaking of hotel room cost, I just stayed at a Days Inn in the Pasadena area, with rooms in the $130 range.  But the price listed on the back of the door was $799.  Rose Bowl price or way-beyond-even Rose Bowl price?)