The Chatgamers Euchre Tournaments started in 1999, when we all played cards at Lycos.com. Four friends were playing cards one night online and discussed "how cool it would be if we could get together and play cards in person." The group elected me (Bill) to set the tournament up and at that time Candy W. from Ohio co-hosted. We held the first Chatgamers Tourney in Windsor, Ontario, Canada at a hotel downtown, and 30 players attended. We enjoyed it so much that we decided to do an annual tournament. Year number 2 was held in Toledo, Ohio where 116 players attended. We held a mini tournament in the middle of one year, hence the reason the annual tourneys seem to be off by one year.
Years 4 & 5, were held in Bowling Green, Ohio at a hotel were we all stayed and played cards. In the early years we only played for trophies, and had a Spades, Hearts, & Double Elimination Euchre Tournaments. Years 6-9 were held in Lima, Ohio, and then Candy decided to bow out of helping with the tournaments.
Maria graciously accepted being the co-host of the tournaments and we moved them to Michigan. We held our first Michigan tourney in Monroe, Mi and went from Trophies to paying Ca$h at the tourneys. After Monroe, we moved closer to Maria's area in and around Flint, Mi.
We had one at a hotel in Flint, two at the Croatian Club, 1 at a now closed bowling alley, 2 at a Bar called The Captain's Quarters in Burton, Mi and the rest at B's Bowling Lanes.
In 2015 we decided to do a Halloween Weekend Tournament, when the man that did the Niagara Falls tournament wasn't going to be able to do it that year. We had 64 players show up for the Halloween tourney. We decide the next year in 2016 that we had all the decorations we might as well continue doing the Halloween weekend tourney each October.
When we went to hold our 2019 Halloween Tournament we found out that B's Bowling Lanes decided to go to a Poker Room where we normally had the tournaments. We had to find a new place and that happened to be a bar called the "Captains Quarters". We welcomed 60 Players to that tournament but knew we would never fit the 90 Players we normally get for the summer tournaments.
We cancelled both the tournaments in 2020 because of the Covid-19 and not wanting to have the players exposed. We decided in the Summer of 2021 to go back to having the tournaments again.
We met for our 23rd Annual Chatgamers Summer Euchre Tournaments at the Captain's Quarters Lounge. Our 5th Annual Halloween Tourney we ended up going back to B's Bowling and Banquet, we held our 24th Annual Summer Tourney there on July 15 & 16, 2022 and we held our 6th Annual Halloween Tourney on October 21 & 22, 2022 at B's Bowling.
We had our 25th Summer Tourney on July 14 & 15, 2023 at B's Bowling and Banquet in Flint, MI. and just finished our 7th and Last Halloween Tourney at B's Bowling and Banquet in Flint, Mi. We will continue to hold our Annual Summer Tourneys but having 2 tournaments a year is getting to be a bit too much for both of us.
Our 26th Annual Summer Chatgamers Tournaments will be held on July 19 & 20, 2024 at B's Bowling and Banquet. We have room for 100 Paid Players. Please send your entry fees in by July 12, 2024!!
We look forward to each Summer Tournament, welcoming many New Players each year, and getting to see our "Euchre Family" again. They are like family to all of us, many have been to most of our Michigan Tourneys.
We play a 12 game Progressive Tourney on Friday Evening cost is $25.00 plus $1.00 Loner Pot, a 10 game Partners Tourney starting at 10:30am on Saturday Morning $20.00, and a 12 game Progressive Tourney on Saturday Night $20.00 plus $1.00 Loners Pot all for $65.00 for entire Tourney. When you send in your Entrance Form, let Maria know how many Tournaments you are interested in Playing 1,2, or all 3.
If you would like to be included on our mailing list, contact one of us with your email address and you will get the Chatgamers Newsletter. We are always welcoming new players; we hope you will consider coming to play Euchre with All of US!!
Maria & Bill
