History of NLOP Live Across America

NLOP provides an atmosphere of user-friendly play promoting the friendships between players and their competitors on-line. With the player’s profile page combined with the chat rooms and table chat, player’s began talking about meeting each other.

In a forum, Tennisfish was asked to organize a “Get Together” in Mississippi for players to meet each other and play a tournament live. The idea for a live tournament and “Get Together” grew rapidly. When four NLOP players (tennisfish, MackinawGirl, jjjstr8 and Pete544) met to meet each other in Michigan the idea for live tournaments in other cities was born. MackinawGirl gave the name to the group, Snow Flake Sisters and Hush Puppies to set it apart. It became a group on Player’s Club.

NLOP became involved in the SFS & SP project and together they are offering NLOP LIVE ACROSS AMERICA which includes live tournaments for all NLOP players with the final table at the NLOP Player’s Championship on August 1, 2009.

About Robinette Evans
Event Organizer

Robinette was born in Waco, Texas. She attended Waco schools, Baylor University, McLennan Community College and Texas State Technical Institute. Robinette has been involved in many charitable and volunteer organizations. She was Coordinator for Special Events for Texas State Little League for 8 years, becoming Hostess of Hospitality Rooms at Little League World Series for 2 years. She is currently President of Forsgard-Olson Heritage Society; Director of “4th Street Project", member of several Swedish and Scandinavian organizations. Texas Swedish Pioneer Association; Historic Waco Foundation; Lifetime Member of Forserum Historical Society in Forserum, Sweden; Friends of Waco High School; and a number of other organizations and clubs. The restoration of the Historic Houses in the “4th Street Project” and the projects in Forserum, Sweden, including the family historical home that she has turned into an archive and genealogy center in the Hymbysgarden in Forserum has been one of her favorite projects. She has planned several Forsgard-Olson Heritage Days in Waco with dedication of 10 historical markers. She and Eddie Forsgard have written many articles and books about the family’s history in Waco and Sweden. The Forsgard House is now on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks. Robin’s hobbies include all forms of needlework, reading, genealogy research and writing, cards and games, cooking. She is an avid poker (tournament only) player.

Robin has recently been elected president of Waco Area Tennis Association, a USTA, Texas Section organization of multi-counties, which is an umbrella organization, which encompasses all tennis activity in that area. Robin is a member of the Episcopal church, which her family helped establish in the 1800’s.