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The Gus Macker tournaments (i believe they have a web site) are 3 on 3 tournaments that take place all over the country, but usually the Midwest. It started in Belding, Michigan (or a suburb of). The guy that started this thing also owned the CBA team in Grand Rapids for a few years, called The Mackers. There is no such person as Gus Macker.
Some of these tournaments are HUGE. They estimated 250,000 at the Belding tournament I was at several years ago. You are broken up based on age, experience, height and a few other things. Other then Top Men's and Womens all courts are call your own fouls. It is double elimination and if you lose your first two you go into the "Toilet Bowl" bracket.
There have been some big names. I played against Steve Scheffler (Purdue) and Michael Finley when he was at Wisconsin. Fun stuff the Macker. Now I am too old and can't compete on the Top Men's level so it is not as fun.
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