*by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director*
Hi, everyone! I’m keeping it simple this week, since we’ve all got the Open on the brain . . .
First up, your official invite to our USO TW gathering:
When: Sunday, 9/4. Let's set the start time as 9 PM, but night session ticket holders, feel free to come later in the evening.
Where: Dublin House. Address: 225 W. 79th St., between Amsterdam and Broadway. (Same place as last year.) They don't serve food but there are plenty of restaurants nearby, and you can have food delivered or even bring your own. Don't worry about missing the tennis as they have flat-screen TVs. Click here for more info.
Please RSVP in the comments, via e-mail here, or by sending me a note on Facebook, as I need to reserve space for our group. (If we’ve already been in touch, I’ve got your name down.) And if you could pass the word along to other USO-bound TWibers who may not catch this invite, that'd be great. Thanks, everyone. Pete and I both plan to be there, and we’re looking forward to seeing you!**
Next, here’s Mariya with your USO Suicide Pool info:
The time is here for you to show your survival skills in the US Open '11 Suicide Pool at *TalkAboutTennis.com*. If you've played it before, you know what to do. Click here to play. You should find the thread for the first day (after the OOP is announced) at that link. The deadline to enter is the scheduled start of play on Monday, August 29th.
If you don't know how to play the Suicide Pool, read on or click here:
The basic idea of the Suicide Pool is to pick, for each day of the tournament (in this case, the US Open), one player from the OOP who you think is going to win his/her match. If he/she wins, you get to pick a fresh player from the next day's OOP. The end goal, of course, is to progress to the final and pick the eventual winner. There is a catch: you can only pick a player once for the entire tournament (so, for instance, you might want to save Nadal for a later round).
There are separate games for the ATP and WTA singles draws and you can play one or both of them:
There will be a fresh thread open every day of the tournament, for both the ATP and WTA. You'll also see a thread which tracks updated results once the tournament begins.
Additional rules:
You have to be a registered member of TAT, which you can easily become by registering here for free.
We will be keeping track of the fortunes of the TWibe. If you want your name to be tracked, please indicate this with the text "TW" in your first day's (and ONLY your first day's) pick. Only include your TW name if it’s different from your username on TAT. Check out the example below:
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Thomaz Bellucci
ptenisnet
TW
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We will be offering prizes to the men's and women's winners, courtesy of New Chapter Press. Good luck!**
Good luck to all participants!
That’s all for now. Use this space however you please, and have a nice weekend, everyone!