Cornhole Craze Brings Big Business To El Dorado County

EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) — Cornhole craze: It’s not conscionable a game, it’s a lifestyle. It’s becoming truthful fashionable that 1 section mates is making a surviving from it.

What started retired arsenic a hobby for Rebecca Schwartz and her husband, Joe, present has the mates arsenic 1 of the manufacture leaders successful California.

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“We utilized to beg radical to fto america person a changeable to bring this into their breweries and present we really can’t support up with each the requests to spell retired and bring boards,” Rebecca explained.

OV Cornhole (OVC) started making boards successful 2008. They physique them from scratch, making their ain designs each in-house.

The El Dorado institution is 1 of 3 businesses to unfastened a cornhole retail abstraction successful the authorities and is the lone 1 successful Northern California.

“Sometimes it’s truly hard to cognize online what you’re getting. Being capable to interaction and consciousness things is simply a large deal,” Rebecca said. “The demand, particularly erstwhile COVID hit, the request connected the manufacturing broadside went up rather a bit. I deliberation radical were location and they had much clip to bash things.”

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The popularity is spiking income for OVC, which went from making a mates of 100 boards to a 1000 a year.

So, what’s the draw? Cornhole is not caller but is gaining nationalist attraction with tournaments spotlighted connected channels similar ESPN.

“You tin beryllium from a 5-year-old to an 80-year-old to play, truthful determination is not a immense carnal requirement,” Rebecca said. “It’s a societal game.”

The Schwartzes besides founded the California Cornhole Association and big events to supply a web for cornhole players to instrumentality portion in.

It’s the connections made done cornhole Schwartz hopes lone to proceed to grow.

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“I deliberation it’s the adjacent champion thing,” she said. “I deliberation it mightiness already beryllium but I deliberation it’s conscionable going to support getting bigger.”

Velena Jones