End of Season Singles and Playoffs Round 3
Yesterday saw our traditional, big money end of season singles tournament take place and it was an enormously eventful affair once again. Some terrific play, great sportsmanship and interesting situations occurred and it was a pleasure witness.
The Lower Bracket crown was claimed by the elated Ha-hyun Park who defeated the new and dangerous Potato signing, Chris Dews. It also featured, possibly for the first time, more special games than the Upper Bracket. Special mention to Denys from Troyjans who completed his first ever 8-ball run against the very obliging Lenny Erickson.
The Upper Bracket saw a Phoenix final with Jang Joon-min exactly some measure of revenge of Bong Bong for beating him into 3rd in the mid-season tournament by claiming the the overall title.
Upper Bracket
1st Place: Jang Joon Min (Scrooge Pub Phoenix)
2nd Place: Bong Bong (Scrooge Pub Phoenix)
3rd Place: Andrew 'Kino' Kinlan (Sin Bin Potato)
4th Place: Paul Riddle (JR Pub All Stars)
Lower Bracket
1st Place: Ha-hyun Park (Seoul Pub FUTA)
2nd Place: Chris Dews (Sin Bin Potato)
3rd Place: Tom Jones (Bulldog Estyle)
4th Place: Han Songyi (Bull & Barrel Ballistics)
Many thanks to all those who helped with the smooth running of the tournament (Jeff Vandeweerd, Ronan Spillane, Lenny Erickson, Jeff Trageser, Paul Riddle & Jim Dewey - your work was much appreciated)and to the bars themselves (Scrooge Pub, Fat Albert's, Dolce Vita and Shenanigans) for providing superb hospitality.
Today sees round three of the playoffs and the Scrooge and JJ's teams re-enter the fray alongside Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers and Dolce Vita Sweet Life. Wednesday night saw Dolce Vita Angry Birds roast and feast on Potato and Boomtown Rats take out the league winners and favourites All Stars in a titanic battle. The real drama was at Sin Bin as usual, which saw its second 8-7 match of the playoffs as Tomato took all three doubles games to eliminate Scandal. The Kings refused to be FUTAed and put them to the sword and in Championship C Ballistics made the semis without firing a ball in anger and Runners simply had far more stamina than Troyjans.
Championship A
Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Shenanigans Boomtown Rats @ Scrooge Pub Phoenix
Championship B
Sin Bin Tomato @ Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers
King Pub Kings @ JJ's the Pain
Championship C
Bulldog Runners @ JJ's Zzyzx
Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ Dolce Vita Sweet Life
Good luck to all involved.
- Details
- Written by Dominic Johnson
- Category: News
- Hits: 1552
Playoffs Round 1 and End of Season Doubles
The first round of the IPL Winter/Spring 2016 Playoffs begins this weekend with some enticing match-ups in what promises to be an extravaganza of potting power. (I hope I haven't over-hyped it too much and you can now all live up to it)
The fixtures are as follows:
Championship A
Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ JR Pub All Stars
3 Alley Seoul Misfits @ Shenanigans Boomtown Rats
Bulldog Estyle @ Sin Bin Potato
Scrooge Pub Phoenix @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Championship B
Seoul Pub FUTA @ Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers
King Pub Kings have a bye
Fat Albert's Scandal @ 3 Alley Seoul
Sin Bin Tomato @ JJ's The Pain
Championship C
JR BBQ The Fire @ JJ's Zzyzx
Bull & Barrel Ballistics have a bye
JR Pub Troyjans @ Upper Deck Loose Cannons
Bulldog Runners @ Dolce Vita Sweet Life
Good luck to all involved
Saturday witnessed the final doubles tournament of the season and 26 people put themselves forward for honour, glory and possibility of making new friends. There is always a great atmosphere at these tournaments and those present were proud to watch the rebirth of Lenny Erickson as a force to be reckoned with and witness the emergence of a man who is determined to collect as many trophies as possible this season, namely Ahmed Khan. They defeated the stern challenges of Nick Miller & Kevin Gamad who in turn, rather fortuitously, beat Dominic Johnson & Paulino Torrico. Thanks to all those who help out in the running of the tournament, especially Lenny, Ronan and Mark. Trophies will be presented at the banquet.
1st Place: Lenny Erickson (Shenanigans Boomtown Rats) & Ahmed Khan (JR Pub All Stars)
2nd Place: Nick Miller (Sin Bin Potato) & Kevin Gamad (Bulldog Estyle)
3rd Place: Paulino Torrico (Bulldog Estyle) & Dominic Johnson (Sin Bin Potato)
In addition to all the fun and games at the tournament special congratulations go to Justin 'Mantis' Kim, who won a new Seybert's cue courtesy of the special raffle organised by the IPL and Paul Riddle.
- Details
- Written by Dominic Johnson
- Category: News
- Hits: 2227
End of Season Singles Money Tournament & Playoffs Round 2
The End-of-Season Singles Money Tournament will be played this Saturday, June 11th at Dolce Vita, Scrooge Pub, Shenanigans and Fat Albert's.
Sign-ups will be in Dolce Vita from 3pm and pay will start as close to 4pm as possible.
Any player who has played 5 separate weeks of the regular season and is happy to part with 10,000won may play.
The tournament will be split into higher and lower brackets and the prize money in each bracket will be as follows:
1st Place: 250,000won
2nd Place: 200,000won
3rd Place: 150,000won
4th Place: 100,000won
5th-8th Places: 40,000won
I hope to see many of you there on Saturday.
The 2nd round of the playoffs takes place tomorrow night and follows some great matches that took place on Sunday. In Championship A, the Scrooge teams both upset the form book to book their semi final places early by defeating Angry Birds and All Stars. Boomtown Rats proved, once again, they don't play doubles in playoffs and Sin Bin Potato edged out Bulldog Estyle in an epic 5 hour match. Championships B & C went largely to form with the seedings more or less working out in the higher seeds favour. On Wednesday King Pub and Bull & Barrel enter the festivities and will no doubt wish to leave their mark on the season.
Wednesday's fixtures are:
Championship A
Shenanigans Boomtown Rats @ JR Pub All Stars
Sin Bin Potato @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Championship B
King Pub Kings @ Seoul Pub FUTA
Fat Albert's Scandal @ Sin Bin Tomato
Championship C
Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ JR BBQ The Fire
JR Pub Troyjans @ Bulldog Runners
All the very best of luck to the teams on Wednesday.
- Details
- Written by Dominic Johnson
- Category: News
- Hits: 1387
Rules updated
The IPL rules have been updated to reflect the latest amendments:
Modified or New
Par. 1.1.8. modified, captains meeting March 30, 2014
Par. 1.6.6. modified, captains meeting April 3, 2016
Par. 1.11. modified, captains meeting April 3, 2016
Par. 1.14. new, captains meeting March 30, 2014
Par. 1.15. new, executive committee’s decision June 2, 2016
Par. 4.2.2. new, website request April 15, 2016
Par. 4.15.1. new, captains meeting March 30, 2014
Par. 6.22. modified, captains meeting January 7, 2015
View the rules through the Rules menu entry.
- Details
- Written by Bernard Condrau
- Category: News
- Hits: 1565
