Mike Osenton was a member of the league from it's start back in 2001 to June 2016, when he left back to the US for good. The league is most grateful to him for his untiring efforts to come up with a schedule for each season.

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Écrit par Bernard Condrau

Catégorie : Announcements

Publication : 1 juillet 2016

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The meeting kicked off a little late, owing to a number of captains being sidetracked by the transgender bar downstairs, in the rather lovely new King Pub last Sunday at 4:30pm.

13 teams were represented on the day and they were as follows:

Sin Bin Potato

Sin Bin Tomato

Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles

Scrooge Pub Phoenix

JR Pub All Stars

Dolce Vita Angry Birds

Dolce Vita Sweet Life

King Pub

Bulldog Estyle

Upper Deck Loose Cannons

Fat Albert's Scandal

Bull & Barrel Ballistics

Shenanigans Boomtown Rats

All teams will be presented with a shiny golden bonus point for their attendance.

The meeting kicked off with a short reminder that the previously agreed season dates had changed thanks to the committee generously allowing everyone a Seollal vacation day. This has pushed the whole schedule back a week and the captains were made aware of this.

There then followed a discussion about how the playoffs would work and how the promotion and relegation would proceed for this season. Everybody had lots of what ifs style questions but in the end it was the committee's decision to go with what has been decided and see how it plays out. The top team from Championships B & C after the 20 week season will be promoted up a division and the bottom teams from A & B championships will be relegated down a division regardless of their performance in play offs.

There was then a short discussion about whether we should limit the number of teams to 24 teams given the current system in operation by the league but given that this was all mixed in with a discussion about the budget that would surface later we then talked about the possibility that teams would illegally maneuver themselves in to a position ready for play offs to get a possible bye in the first round. This discussion eventually petered out.

The was a short warning from the president about talking or joking whilst opposing teams were shooting but seeing how this largely affected his team it fell on deaf ears.

The budget was the biggest and most wide-ranging item to be debated. Several good ideas were raised and the committee will act before the end of the season to ensure teams stay in the league for next season. It has been decided that payouts will come down this season for tournaments and that any charity donations will come from individuals or teams rather than the 50/50 raffle. 50% will now go to the league to recoup costs. The banquet will remain free of charge to all those who have competed in 3 matches.

On to the real votes...We discussed the possibility of moving to a Songtan format of 13 games in a night but delayed that until more members were available to vote. It may well be put forward at the banquet.

The issue of former professional players was next on the agenda. It was decided that ex-pros should have to wait for a certain period of time to join the league by 7 votes to 0. So we offered up 1 year, 2 years and 5 years as alternatives. 5 people voted for a 2 year gap and so that motion was passed. All ex-professionals who want to play in the league must now wait a minimum of 2 years from their last competitive professional match.

It was then decided nobody in the league wants bars from outside the Itaewon area to join the league.

The vice-president made an impassioned plea for an unattached players/out of favour players registry to be set up on line to help teams struggling to find players. All approved of this idea and it was warmly received.

Paul Riddle was given the floor and he spoke about his newly acquired status as a Seybert's representative and how he was willing to help all those who needed it get new cues and equipment. Again this was warmly received by the room and the committee agreed to help him promote items at future events.

Finally we voted that advisors to the shooter could place the bridge or rest for the shooter during time-outs by a score of 7-1.

The meeting broke up and everyone skipped off merrily into the evening.

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Écrit par Dominic Johnson

Catégorie : Announcements

Publication : 6 avril 2016

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Jim Dewey is a member of the league since 2001 and served the league ever since in various functions. Jim was President, Vice President, and Secretary over many years, and is still active as player and captain in the league.

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Écrit par Bernard Condrau

Catégorie : Announcements

Publication : 1 juillet 2016

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The organisational meeting for the Winter/Spring 2016 season was held on January 6th in Scrooge Pub. A total of 22 teams registered for the new season:

Mark spoke first and gave a brief overview of the league's finances. Anyone is free to look over the books, just contact Mark at Scrooge Pub. The captains' responsibilities were then reiterated (although the captains who needed to hear it of course weren't present!).

We then moved on to discussing the divisional structure for the next season. It had been decided at the extraordinary captains meeting in December to go with three divisions, each with separate playoffs. The divisions will be: Solids, made up of the top 8 teams from last season; Stripes, made up of the next 7 teams; and Low Ball, made up of the final 7 teams. We will be keeping the new 'Australian' style playoff system which means the top 4 teams in each division will have a second chance. This means only 2 teams from each division will be knocked out in the first round of playoffs.

There were a couple of proposals concerning forfeiting to be voted on:

Proposal 1: A team that forfeits the first round of playoffs will be disqualified from the competition. Of course this only applies to those teams who have a second chance, i.e. the top four teams in each division this season. The proposal was passed by 12 votes to 4.

Proposal 2: A team will be disqualified for forfeiting any three matches during the season. This was defeated by a vote of 15:1 against the proposal.

Proposal 3: A team will be disqualified for forfeiting 3 matches in a row, or any 5 matches in a season. This was passed with a vote of 13:2 in favour of the proposal.

At this point a discussion ensued about forfeiting versus rescheduling. It was suggested that forfeiting a match should be a last resort. Captains should work together to ensure matches are rescheduled instead of being forfeited. Of course, informing an opposition captain of problems in fulfilling a fixture one hour before the match is scheduled to start is problematic. Captains should strive to know if they have players to fulfill a fixture at least one day in advance.

There were also a couple of proposals relating to players using real names and photo IDs.

Proposal 1: Each team captain will provide photos of all their players to be made available on the website.

Proposal 2: Players will have to use their real names on the website and must match with an ID card.

As these were proposed in response to the actions of only one team it was decided by a vote of 13:0 to not implement either of them.

Finally it was decided to make the new 'handicap ratings system' available to view on the website. This will award match points according the the ratings points won/lost, not the number of games won/lost. It is possible for a team to win by a score of say 10-5 and lose points in the handicap ranking. This new ranking is designed to add an interesting new feature in the statistics section of the website and will not supplant the usual points system. What, if any, awards will be offered for winners of this ranking system is to be decided by the executive committee. Many thanks to Bernard for his hard work in developing and implementing this new feature.

The meeting disbanded to a hearty chorus of "Huzzah" which almost, but not quite, drowned out an unidentified yet powerful "flubber" sound. A barrage of top hats and canes were thrown ecstatically, and Lenny was borne into the night on the shoulders of his adoring acolytes.

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Écrit par Ronan Spillane

Catégorie : Announcements

Publication : 9 janvier 2016

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