Pete Wentz Popup - Lucky Losers Write Up

It was awesome!

(This is a legitimate write up with ALL of the details, I promise I didn't use ChatGPT but want to make sure that everything is documented in one place for everyone to reference and ask questions)

This was an event that transpired on Instagram starting with Pete Wentz posting on his instagram story that he was "Working on something" and to stay tuned. Earlier this week he posted again, tagging a new instagram account (@pwtennisclub), and then another story yesterday morning with full event details.

Pete was there alongside his sister, a local coach (Joe, who was awesome!), and Cameron, who is Pete's personal tennis coach.

Operationally: It was very well set up. The fences covered the tennis courts since the entire park is fenced in for Riot Fest, there was an opening with security for bag checks, and ~50 people showed up. (This was honestly the perfect amount of people, it would have been much more chaotic with more, and less exciting with less.) There were Liquid Death and TopSpin2k giveaways (Both sponsors of the event, and lots of cool merch!) They had a food truck with free pizza, there were massive coolers with Liquid Death Waters & Teas. They had T-Shirts just for the event (Lucky Losers is the 'official' name of the event/club I think)

The event itself was SUPER DIY. Once everyone was through the gate and on the tennis courts Pete came out and spoke briefly. There were 2 major points that he made:

1. Tennis is incredibly inaccessible and partially by design. Lots of collared shirts, country club, snooty behavior in the tennis community and he wanted to make it more accessible and wanted this event to be kind of "Rock Tennis" (I later found out that he's friends with the founder of The Ace Club, which is in France and is wanting to make tennis more accessible to everyone!)

2. When organizing the event Riot Fest asked him "What is it?" and he said "I don't know" so it was a lot of winging it! (Which was honestly refreshing. It didn't feel manufactured and corporate, and contributed to a lot of the fun)

The crowd was split into 3 groups: People who played tennis and knew their 'rating', people who wanted to watch, and people who were beginners and just wanted to hit some balls. From there we literally played tennis with instructors, did some practices and small games, prizes were given out, and Pete just walked around hanging out!

It was incredibly fun, everyone had a blast, and I think it turned out exactly how Pete had wanted. If another one pops up, it's absolutely worth going to.

Any questions, feel free to post down below - Happy to do a little AMA!