Cancelled
“First Annual Smoky Mountain
Chess & Checkers Tournament”
February 26th
thru 28th 2016
Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort, 2525 DreamMore Way, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 |
(800) 365-5996
(map)
www.dollywoodsdreammoreresort.com
| view photos & videos
This is the venue for our
11-Man Ballot National Open Tournament as the main checker event of this 3 day checker tournament. Of course, we
are playing in
a separate playing room. We also have plans for a GAYP & 3-Move Open Tournament. These are our checker playing schedules:
11-Man and GAYP & 3-Move Schedule, also please review the DreamMore Program of
Events. DreamMore's goal is to attract and register 200
family vacation getaways with a Chess & Checker non-professionals interest for a
tournament with a “fun” program of events just for parents, kids, & guests.
PRIZES:
-
$2,000 in Cash
Prizes
-
$2,000 in DW/DMR in-kind services (Dollywood park tickets, overnight
stays at DMR, diner tickets to Dixie Stampede)
-
1 Grand Prizes
(3 night Stay in a Family Suite, 4 combo tickets to DW and DW Splash Country
and $250 in cash, 4 tickets to Dixie Stampede) for the winner of the
Scholastic Tournament and the Open Tournament… value $1,500+
- In-Kind Resort/ Park Amenities -Values
- 1 Night in DMR $200-$250 per night plus tax based on the summer season
- 1 DW Ticket
$62 + Tax
- 1 Dixie Stampede Ticket
$60 +Tax
- 1 Combined DW/DSC
$84 + Tax
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Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort (DMR/DW) has agreed to support
a duel chess and checkers tournament as
an annual event during their off season which promotes us, and helps DreamMore
Resort. This is our 1st Corporate tournament host, free playing room, discount room rates, and prize money! DreamMore
gave us their $69+tax employee rate. Breakfast is not included, but you have a
full breakfast offered in their Song and Hearth restaurant and pastries/muffins and breakfast sandwiches are also available in
their Pantry where fresh Starbucks coffee and specialty drinks are served.
We truly need to support this opportunity! DMR/DW has a 400,000+ digital
database, media/social media list of family contacts which they use to promote
family vacation getaways & this tournament and their stake in this endeavor. This is a
5 star resort hotel backed by the Dolly Parton's Dollywood Complex, a multi-billion
$ corporation. I've posted a little under general discussion on ACF forum. ACF has
agreed to direct our 11-Man National, and a GAYP/3-Move event over 3 days. We
will also direct their Saturday DMR/DW youth
checker tournament and their
"Family Time" tournament for their vacationing family
parents & guest, our ACF
amateurs & kids, etc. You should bring along your grandparents, wife & kids,
grandkids and friends. This is a family oriented resort with bunk bed suites (9 types of
rooms), with a frig in the suites. You may fly into (TYS) Knoxville McGgee Tyson, and rent a car to
Dollywood. They have complimentary transportation to nearby theme parks, Tanger Outlet, etc. We will have an introductory session before each of these Saturday tournaments to introduce ACF,
playing rules and some basic checker strategy in winning checkers. We definitely should
follow up with our checker parents in these tutorial sessions so they can start
checker clubs in their children's schools. There are so many possibilities that we
can pursue off this exposure and list of players. This is the best way I know to grow
checkers and have access to parents who will help us do it.
Postcard Invitation:
2016 Smokey Mountain Chess & Checker Tournament Host and Sponsor:
PRIZES:
$2,000 in Cash Prizes, $2,000 in DW/DMR in-kind services (Dollywood
park tickets, overnight stays at DMR, diner tickets to Dixie Stampede), 1 Grand Prizes (3 night Stay in a Family Suite, 4 combo tickets to DW and DW
Splash
Country and $250 in cash, 4 tickets to Dixie Stampede) for the winner of
the
Scholastic Tournament and the Open Tournament... value $1,500+ |
Where:
Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort,
2525
DreamMore Way,
Pigeon Forge, TN 37863
|
(800) 365-5996
|
www.dollywoodsdreammoreresort.com
When:
Friday-Saturday-Sunday, February 26-27-28, 2016
Resort
Check-in & Registration: Thursday, 2/25
(1-7 pm)
Dollywood’s DreamMore’s Welcome Reception
(7-9 pm)
Entry Fee: $15.00 | $69.00 rooms rate
(King or
Queens)
Use special PROMO code “checkers”
to book rooms online or call 800# and ask for it.
What:
11-Man Ballot
National
(9 rounds)
GAYP/3-Move
Tournament
[9 rounds as:
4) GAYP & 5) 3-Move]
Sunday
Luncheon Awards Banquet ($15
per person)
ACF
Sanctioned / Rated Tournament
For
questions or more info call 336-209-5656 or email
jrsmithnccheckers@gmail.com
|
12/7/2015 DreamMore Resort / Dollywood Conference Call
|
Jan McCormick's Dec 22, 10:09 AM email
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Jan McCormick's Dec 22, 12:35 PM email
| Jan McCormick's Dec 22, 4:34 PM
Cancellation email
2016 Tournament Dates