The sudden closure of A-Game on Thursday, Feb 4 brought several club sports to a screeching halt. Those who showed up for work, practice and school were met with a police barricade. Select clubs were given a short amount of time to collect their items, one club–Alliance Volleyball–at this point has been unable to collect all of their belongings.
On Friday, Feb 5 Alliance Volleyball and MDG Management filed a motion asking the court to reconsider its prior decision of removing a temporary restraining order. Per the court documents filed on Friday and the press release A-Game distributed, they closed abruptly due to financial hardship. However, prior to this unexpected closing, MDG’s February rent of $90,000 along with $22,000 from Alliance for a tournament to be held at A- Game on Presidents Day weekend had already been collected.
A-Game just released the following statement:
This has been a sad week for A-Game, Alliance, MDG, and our community. In an effort to keep the lines of communication open, and hopefully to re-open the facility quickly, the following sets forth the basic elements of a proposal we have forwarded to Alliance and MDG:
1. A-Game would reopen within 24-hours of the parties’ reaching agreement as to the terms of the proposals.
2. A-Game would remain open for the clubs’ use through March 31, 2016, with a possibility of remaining open through April 30, 2016.
3. Sports Land Group (SLG) would proceed with the sale of the facility to the party under contract as soon as a closing could be arranged, and the clubs would enable the sale and clear title to be passed to the buyer.
4. Upon the closing of the sale, SLG would deposit two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) of the closing proceeds into an escrow account ($1,000,000.00 for the benefit of MDG and $1,000,000.00 for the benefit of Alliance). The escrowed funds would be available to fund any legally permissible damages to which MDG and/or Alliance may be entitled arising from the lawsuit currently pending in the Williamson County Chancery Court (Case No. 44784). Recoveries would not be limited to the amount of the escrowed funds.
5. SLG is willing to proceed with mediation on an expedited basis, if the clubs would like.
This proposal, we hope, achieves the goals of MDG and Alliance, allowing them the opportunity to finish their current seasons at A-Game, while allowing SLG to sell the facility and put an end to the losses of thousands of dollars its owners are incurring monthly to keep the facility open.
The proposal is valid through 5 pm on Wednesday, February 10, after which it will be deemed rejected.
We stand ready to meet personally with MDG and Alliance representatives on an immediate basis to resolve this unfortunate situation on a businesslike basis.
Copies of the court documents filed are listed below. Click on picture to enlarge.
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Our tournament was cancelled for Presidents weekend over this mess. We will never book a Nashville tournament again.