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It’s a Wednesday afternoon in the office, and you’re sitting in your drab and gray cubicle chomping on the bit for the weekend to finally just get here. The boss is being a pain, your colleague keeps scheduling meeting after meeting that you don’t have time for, and you swear if you have to read one more Slack message, you’re going to take one of the Keurig coffee pods and throw it at someone. All you want is a break and to be entertained like a VIP for all of the hard work you feel like you’re constantly exerting in your life.

You look past your cubicle into the commons area, and notice a couple of co-workers playing at the recently-installed pool table. Looks like fun, you think to yourself. As your mind continues to wander back towards the weekend, you begin to think about how to best give yourself a break from both your overloaded work life, and from the same old clubbing scene that you usually find yourself gravitating towards.

Playing some pool and doing something different sounds like fun. But for as wonderful (and expensive) of a place as the Bay area is to live in, it’s somewhat perplexing how limited the nightlife and entertainment options can be.

There are only a couple of pool rooms in the area, and none of them seem particularly appealing given how run down the equipment and aesthetics are, the fact that most of them only serve beer, and the lack of technology / difficulty in booking a reservation that they all have.

If only there was a recreational sports and entertainment facility that combined mobile reservations plus cool in-facility technology like live streaming and virtual sports equipment. Maybe even a robot concierge/bartender that attended to all of your needs. You could stay active, be entertained, and treated like a VIP, all at the same time. Now that would be cool.

As luck would have it, you happened to get an email this morning from the mobile app ZenSports that you signed up for awhile back. You love ZenSports because it makes it super easy to book membership passes and reservations at local sports facilities. The problem is, most of the sports facilities in the Bay area are run down, dreary, don’t have full liquor licenses/bars, and are pretty low-class. Not exactly the kind of VIP experience you were hoping for this weekend.

Maybe Vegas is sounding like a better option instead . . .

The thought of Vegas is quickly dashed from your mind, though, as you glance at the first sentence of the email, where it talks about ZenSports’ new recreational sports and entertainment facility that it just opened up. No way! This is exactly what you’ve been looking for, especially if their new facility is as cool as their mobile app is.

You scurry to read the rest of the email, which describes what your VIP experience will be like playing and having fun at its new facility:

Your ZenSports experience starts with booking a reservation through the existing mobile app to play at our facility. Our app will automatically charge your credit card for your reservation, book your requested date/time, and even send a ride sharing car to pick you and your friends up without you ever having to open your Uber or Lyft app. Once you arrive at our location, everything you need will be available within the app, including ordering food/drinks, live streaming and broadcasting yourself to friends as you play, and keeping track of your scores and statistics.

You’ll then head on over to your reserved table of ping pong, billiards, or any other game of your choosing to begin playing with your friends. From this point on, you’ll find yourself swatting augmented reality ping pong balls, using mixed reality pool cues, and wearing gloves and headsets that help improve your form and analyze performance. Human and robotic concierges will attend to your every need while you play, and treat you like the VIP that you are.

Out of breath but invigorated from a couple hours of playing, you and your friends decide to lounge around one of our beautiful cocktail bars. While there, you tap a couple of buttons in the ZenSports app, and boom, out comes your favorite refreshing cocktail prepared and served by a robotic bartender. Not only was your Moscow Mule prepared in less than a minute, your credit card was automatically charged, and there was no hassle or waiting for someone to take your order or make your drink.

Halfway through finishing your drinks, you and your friends realize that you’ve been having so much fun that you completely lost track of time. Oh well, that’s ok. You’ve been feeling like a VIP for the past few hours, and you realize just how much you deserved to be entertained and pampered with a 5 star experience that didn’t break your bank account.

After downing a second Moscow Mule (that robot bartender knows how to make them just right!), you decide that it’s time to finally head home. Simply snap your fingers and a ZenSports concierge automatically orders your Uber or Lyft car to take you home. Once back in the comfort of your living room, you reflect on how great of a time you just had, and how there’s finally an experience for recreational sports and entertainment that 2018 would be proud of.

Welcome to ZenSports.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssss you think to yourself. This is finally what you’ve been looking for. You pull out your ZenSports app and book a reservation for you and three friends this Saturday night. Took about 30 seconds and there was no need to plan a trip to Vegas, get on a plane, or spend thousands of dollars on a country club membership in order to be a VIP. That kind of experience is now waiting for you right here in the Bay area at a cost that won’t break your bank account.

Game on.