Remington Davenport

When they go to tournaments, it's a reunion.

But then on top of that, going to the World Championship, I've made friends from all over the world.

There is no offense there.

Backgammon is my life and that's it.

There's nothing else going on, you know?

the basics is just growing the game in the United States and then definitely global.

I'm starting to expand to other cities.

I'm encouraging people from around the world to get into it, start their own club, do their thing, practice more, play online, play in person, whatever.

No, we're in it.

We're on the path.

The reason it's having a surge now, and I started my club three years ago, I can put a lot of my success on the change of society, which is people want in-person experiences.

They want to be offline.

They want to get off dating apps.

They want to have experiences.

I don't know what happened in the 80s for it to die down, but the reason it's coming back now is there is a big change in society of wanting to get offline and connect with people online.

and be human again so i started nyc backgammon club kind of as a joke i knew 10 people in new york i was just looking for a place to play i had a full-time job and i started hosting an event every week in 2023 and people started coming i'm like whoa this is so crazy and i don't have a social media or marketing background i'm a sales gal what were you selling

A lot of bullshit.

I was always in startups.

It's not even worth talking about.

So I started hosting these events, and I'll never forget the first event that I had 50 people at, and I just went home and cried.