2018 Top Shark Tournament
NAPA Tournaments
NAPA OF CENTRAL MISSOURI 2018 TOP SHARK TOURNAMENT
NAPA of Central Missouri holds a FREE ENTRY, LOCAL tournament between Columbia, Jefferson City, Moberly, and Troy each year. Next year there will be even more cities participating. The tournament is known as the Top Shark Tournament.
Each player pays $1 a week dues to fund the tournament. This tournament is FREE entry unless the leagues wants to add to the payouts. The more teams, the more money in payouts. It is to your benefit to recruit more players into NAPA so the payouts can be the highest they can be.
This is to reward the players who play in NAPA and not to reward those players that only play one season and quit. To qualify for this tournament you MUST play at least FIVE matches a season and TWO out of THREE seasons in NAPA.
The first season to qualify for this year's tournament was the summer season for 2017.
In 2014 (the first year) it was $ 6,500
In 2015 it was $ 7,500. We had 89 players that registered for the tournament, 61 from Columbia and 28 from Jefferson City.
For 2016 it was $ 9,000!! We had 106 players that registered for the tournament, 82 from Columbia and 24 from Jefferson City. It was held on June 4-5.
2016 RESULTS:
0-41 handicaps 1st Doug Simmons, 2nd Christian Taylor, 3rd Shauna Rios, 4th Jimmy Hammonds, 5th-8th Jordan Hartley, Russell Gay, Jeff Landreth and Curtis Jeffrey.
42-58 handicaps 1st Brenden Sexton, 2nd Dawn Becker, 3rd Rick King, 4th Brent Demis, 5th-8th Darrel Wheeler, Casey Nelson, Tim Ralph, and Tabitha Miner
59-77 handicaps 1st Lauren Dillender, 2nd Russell Miller, 3rd Mark Tuttle, 4th Alaa Bouzhar, 5th-8th Anthony Burks, Marc Anderson, Earl Black, and Phil Deming
78 and above handicaps 1st Larry Pierce, 2nd Mitch Dickerson, 3rd Lukus Hunt, 4th Scott Fluegel, 5th-8th Darrel Moses, Don Crump, Dave McCord, Whit Elfner
For 2017 it was $9,000!! We had 112 players that registered for the tournament, 77 from Columbia and 35 from Jeff City. It was hold on May 20-21.
2017 RESULTS:
0-40 handicaps: 1st Tim Rowe, 2nd Mark Voss, 3rd Tina Taylor, 4th Curtis Jeffrey, 5th-8th Laurie Travis, Vance Johnson, Shauna Rios, and Mark Evaniak.
41-53 handicaps: 1st Daniel Holtzclaw, 2nd Vince Taylor, 3rd, Jim Rice, 4th Thad Stubbs, 5th-8th Jeff Landreth, Christian Taylor, Jeremy Flanagan, Mike McDaniels.
54-74 handicaps: 1st Chase Roach, 2nd Craig Gelven, 3rd Tracy Epple, 4th Ron Lynes, 5th-8th Joey Blakenship, Phil Deming, Eric Hensley, Clinton Hartley.
75+ handicaps: 1st Rich Lewis, 2nd Pete Grant, 3rd David Brown, 4th Wayne Jett, 5th-8th Darrel Moses, Scotty Justice, Jeremy Miller, Cole McCubbin
The 2018 Top Shark Tournament will be held on SATURDAY, May 19th, and if needed, SUNDAY, May 20th. It will be $11,000 spread over four handicap groups. It will be double elimination and no entry fee.
Jakes and MO River is where the tournaments were held.
- Jakes is 5695 Clark Lane, Columbia MO 65202 phone is 573-474-0999. They will open at 8 AM for players and kitchen will be open at 9 AM. Parking is in front of Jakes and on upper level and overflow at the end of the parking lot. Do NOT park in front of Georges or the smoke shop. 8 tables will be available.
- MO River is 1624 Jade Road, Columbia MO 65201 phone is 573-814-1434. They will be open at 8 AM and the kitchen open as long as there is business. 9 tables will be available.
The $11,000 Payouts are the same in each group and were distributed as follows:
1st is $1,000
2nd is $750
3rd is $450
4th is $250
5-8th is $75
The handicap groups were as follows with 147 players registered (last year we had 112):
0-43 handicaps at Jakes started at 11 AM 36 players
1st place Krista Gessner $1,000
2nd place Margaret Flowers $750
3rd place Derrick Voyles $450
4th place Dakota Rodgers $250
5-8th place Rick Hunt, Jimmy Hammonds Robin Raymond, and Mike Blades $75
44-60 handicaps at Jakes started at 9 AM 36 players
1st place Jared Cook $1,000
2nd place Tom Becker $750
3rd place Mark Tuttle $450
4th place Dawn Becker $250
5-8th place Anthony Flowers, Abraham Anderson, Gary Smith, and Tim Rowe $75
61-74 handicaps at MO River started at 9 AM 39 players
1st place Craig Gelven $1,000
2nd place Tracy Epple $750
3rd place Jeff Bexten $450
4th place Chris Moore $250
5-8th place Cruze Acevedo, Thad Stubbs, Eric Inlow, and Erica Utterback $75
75+ handicaps at MO River started at 11:30 AM 36 players
1st place Darrel Moses $1,000
2nd place Whit Elfner $750
3rd place Brian Powell $450
4th place Phil Deming $250
5-8th place Dave Brown, Bobby Colley, Bill Mock, and John Beckwith $75
Here is the race matrix we will be using at the tournament. Please note the losers bracket will be a race to two.
Be sure to check in at the tournament desk. I will be running Jakes and Chad Reams will be running MO River. We want to try and finish in one day but we will need your help. Once your match is called go to the table and lag for the break. Once the match starts no cigarette breaks. Once the match is finished take the results to the tournament desk so another match can be called.
There will be tournament and NAPA shirts at each location but they will be in limited quantities. You can purchase online or just let me know what you want and can pick it up at the tournament.
If this tournament gets much larger (and I hope it does), we have three choices:
- Make it a two day tournament,
- Have two tournaments a year instead of one which means reduced payouts
- Change to 9 ball.
Let me know what you think.