ARLINGTON — Rodger Holloway will travel just about anywhere for a pick-up basketball game. Last year, he drove 2,400 miles to Charlotte, S.C., to play in a 3-on-3 tournament. However, he won’t have nearly as far to drive this year when he participates in the 3-on-3 X-travaganza Basketball Tournament.

The X-travaganza, which has been held at the Tulialip Casino Resort parking lot, will be played at its new home at the Arlington Airport, Aug. 13-14.

“The event has grown so fast that it needed a new home,” said Nicole Roskelley of A-Town Hoops, which is hosting the highly anticipated tournament for the first time. “We are really looking forward to this event. We want it to go over and above the excellent standards it has already set. We are all so excited and it will be a great event.”

The proceeds from previous tournaments went to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County. However, this year’s proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Arlington.

It’s a cause that Holloway feels strongly about. Several members of his family have been impacted by the disease. This will be the first time he’s participated in the event and it probably won’t be his last. He passed up a tournament in upstate New York the same weekend in favor of the X-travaganza tournament.

“As a basketball junkie, playing for cancer is a very emotional thing for me,” the 54-year-old Holloway said. “I hope to play in the tournament for many more years. But once I found out where the money would go, it was an easy call for me.”

A-Town Hoops, which is home to the Arlington boys select youth basketball league, hopes to bring together at least 100 or more teams. That’s a modest number considering more than 7,000 teams participated in Spokane’s Hoopfest earlier this year.

“We have the biggest 3-on-3 basketball tournament on this side of the mountains,” Roskelley said. “We would love to build it up as much as possible. We’d like it to be like the one in Spokane.”

There will be divisions for boys and girls based on grades from fourth to 12th and divisions for men and women based on age. Also, there will be an open coed division. The double-elimination format guarantees each team at least three games, all of which will be 25 minutes long. Teams must win by two points and all games will be covered by a Snohomish County Officials Association referee.

“We want to keep improving our tournament,” Roskelley said. “We are doing whatever it takes to make this one of the best basketball tournaments around.”