The APA 9 ball team CHAMPIONS disqualified

stumpie71

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Actually, you can't pick when to forfeit (though if I made the rules, you would be able to). The forfeit has to go last.

In order to forfeit while still playing 4 players that add up to 20 or 21, you have to have a roster that would allow you to meet the 23 rule, even if one of the needed players is absent. Otherwise, you have to play four players whose skill level adds up to 19.[/


Unless its been changed since 2011 you can forfeit individual matches and it doesn't have to be the last match. There are two ways which you can do it, one of them the balls do not have to be broken, the other you wait until the first rack is broken. If you forfeit and do not break the first rack then the forfeiting team loses their player for the match, the non forfeiting team DOES NOT lose their player. However the skill level(s) still counts against the 23 rule.
 

movin-on

Registered
Integrity

WOW! Some characters and the things they do will never cease to amaze. When a friend sent me this link on Facebook I just couldn’t help from chiming in. So, you losers get caught cheating and you step forth in an absolutely pathetic attempt to save your compromised integrity? You were no better at saving your integrity than you were at cheating. What was I thinking; apparently integrity isn’t in their vocabulary anyway.

I was amazed no one recognized these characters from the APA magazine or website. I’m assuming the keg with legs JOHN TOROCKIO, was the captain since he so brazenly stepped forth in this ill-fated attempt at cheaters logic. Nice try Jack Wagon! Characters in question are from right to “wrong”, FRANKIE BURKETT, KANDACE DUNLAP (soon to be REOTT),DEVON ANDERSON, LINDSAY DEYARMIN,JOHN TOROCKIO (keg with legs, Ha ha..) & SCOTT REOTT, Missing from the famed/shamed photo was the Fraud himself J.D. GREENE. I’m sure you will find them all on Dream Team rosters in TAP’s Edison event. I no longer live in that area, and I only know a couple of them, but they were known to have been involved in questionably ethical behaviors previously, but this certainly is scraping the bottom of the barrel! These classless clowns should be banned from “ALL league pool” for life.

The TAP officials attempt at rationalizing their actions and TAP’s actions is also in poor judgment. Why would any organized league want these classless individuals involved in any pool league at all? These people are giving league pool a bad name, and TAP is ok with that only because TAP hasn’t “YET” been cheated. Wow, I agree how do you know sir for absolute certain TAP hasn’t been cheated? No need to answer, you don’t. What a stupid statement. Funny this area has been questionable for many years in handicapped pool leagues, as has ZSAPA the local APA affiliates. Few other APA ops have been sanctioned more than they have... If TAP wanted to show real integrity here TAP would step in right here, right now from the people at the top and “LIFETIME BAN” these guys right here right now in front of the world’s audience in pool. There’s only one single reason TAP would not… Money! Is it really that important to TAP to obtain the “dirty money” of cheaters like this? Is this what TAP’s really about? The APA took their stand, now it’s TAP’s turn. As a formidable leader in the Pool community step up and show the pool community TAP’s is the league with integrity! What more proof do you need? The cheaters admitted to cheating. Do you really need to catch them yet “AGAIN”?

I guess The Super Billiard Expo in Edison will be interesting! I wish I could attend. I wonder if anyone has e-mailed this to Allen Hopkins? Doubtful he wants these clowns affiliated with his name and events. Even though TAP has its own event Allen’s event is still on the line here as he runs that show. Frankly why would any players with real integrity even want involved with these clowns ever again on any of their teams in any league is beyond me as you would only give yourself a bad name.
 

fish on

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Absolutely I know for sure. They play in my league. If they would have done something like this I would not be on here posting because they would not be in TAP and not welcome back. Like I said, there are players banned for life from TAP that are in the APA now. You have to realize something about TAP. TAP does not raise players handicap at events. We catch you, we dq you. We don't slap your hand and raise you and you keep playing. Your done for that event and that includes minis and anything else with the event.
For something like this a 2 year ban would never be considered. Lifetime and nothing less.

I am not naming names. Ask that league for names. Why should I say anything when the APA is all hush-hush. This is not TAP's problem. Again..they did nothing wrong in TAP.

FYI...When the league first started, TAP founder and president Loyd Schonter found out one of his best friends was trying to bag. He called him over, asked him for his membership card, took out a pair of scissors out and cut the card in half in front of him and banned him for life. A 2 year ban for what this team did would never cross Loyd's mind. Lifetime..Period.
I was told there are penalties in APA for LO who send underrated players at national events IE.they lose spots to the next year event
this is a big deal as the carrot is not there which costs them teams and cash
wonder if tap,bca etc. punishes their lo for baggars and cheaters?
oh ya APA sent teams in the past back if they lost to DQ teams that is a true statement!
 
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JC

Coos Cues
Absolutely spot on!

If anyone thinks widespread cheating and sandbagging does not happen in every league they are hopelessly naive.

It's all down to how the local LO runs his league. Some are great, some don't give a flying F what goes on as long as they get their money. So it's a coin toss what sort of weekly league environment you are going to get. And even if your local LO is great, and your local league is spotless, when you get to nationals you will be mixing with ALL kinds, and what you see will amaze you.

It's going to happen. 100% going to happen. Period.

You're kidding right? Been playing and running leagues out here for 10 years and never have I seen nor heard allegations of cheating in any way.

JC
 

jt's06sti

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
This will be my last post.. i want to start w a apology to racetonine and everyone in the apa nationals. i know what we did was wrong and i made myself look like a idiot trying to justify it. I hope you guys can look past this. It was a spare of the moment decision and was a bad one. aparently none of you guys ever made a mistake. Thanks to the FEW that actually didnt jump to the conclusion were all scumbag cheaters and all we do is bag and cheat in leagues. some of you realized some of these replys are harsh and far from trueth. Like sam said were all in other leagues some have been playing for 10 years or more in tap.ive been playing for 3-4 years in both, fairly new to bca, it just got started back up in my area.. Just because we made that bad decision, doesnt mean I or we are all cheaters and immoral and criminals and all that you are all calling us...

Youll prolly bash me for saying this too, i know someone who was killed by a drunk driver, guys still in jail for it all and is a felony criminal now.

everyone can JUMP to the conclusion this guy is a scumbag criminal and bash him by the hundreds, believe me, i was mad about it.. come to find out later this guy has never been arested before and his BAC was .09, he had 2 drinks at dinner and it was raining out and hydroplaned an head on colusion.
now is he a scumbag criminal bc he made a bad 1 bad decision hurting others? no.. do the penalty and move on sorry... guy isnt much differant than any of us is he?


after reading what i was replying, i shouldnt of said things what and how i said it, i was replying mad and if i switched shoes i understand SOME of you guys comments. id feel the same way. i was a idiot trying to defend it. Sam (my tap league OP)knows all us and were a few small joining towns and small league like 80 teams total spread between 3 nights. Everyone knows the cheaters in our area and the bagging/cheating is really bad in the apa nowhere near it in tap.

were not bad guys and all love the game. ill be glad to meet up w any of you at SBE, tap nationals this yr, or bca nationals this yr..im sure ill be at all them

ive been posting on here for a few years and sold and bought and never had a problem.

if you wanna keep bashing us and calling me names fine, it doesnt matter to me but if any of you play my team at any of these youll see how and who we really are.

Im overcapped in tap now because of this decision and I WILL NEVER PLAY IN THE APA AGAIN, NOR WILL ANY OTHER OF MY PLAYERS...

also, the apa is taking action, we have to return the money..

.. i think our league op is getting into some trouble bc theyve had teams dq'd last few years like 3 teams outta last 5 years..
 

racefornine

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
This will be my last post.. i want to start w a apology to racefornine and everyone in the apa nationals. i know what we did was wrong and i made myself look like a idiot trying to justify it.

I can accept that . I guess it was naive to think this thread would not go in this direction . I said before I had accepted what happened to us , I wasn't happy but moved on . This thread was started because I feel the APA is not being fair to its members on this issue . I was hoping to hear from the AZ community , and see if there is anything they would do or think I should do as far as the APA goes .
 

jt's06sti

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
also, i will clear this up bc it seems to be asked several times...

every team we played will get a invite back. also every team that played the other 2 teams DQ'd will also

HOWEVER they will have to pay their way, apa covers entry thats it..you pay flight ,hotel, expenses...

i personally know this bc one of my good friends team was beat by a team that got dq'd and this is what they did for them 2 yrs ago.

if you are beat by a team that gets dq'd on spot, you move on like what happened in semi finals, the team we played got drilled in 4 matches in semi's...
 

jt's06sti

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
thanks dave...

i can assure you apa is taking care of this, we got certified letters and are dealing w them currently and makeing all the arangments to take care of this with them.

this is far from being "scooted under the rug" you dont need to contact them to ensure that.. this is a big deal w our league op also, theyre getting punished too.

just because theyre not publishing this doenst mean theyre not doing anything. Think about it would you want to advertise this happened? im sure this has happened several times before and every yr theres dq's. They dont want the negative on theyre name, everyone remebers negatives, not the good...
 
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uwate

daydreaming about pool
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15k is a lot to ship back to the APA. If you guys do that, kudos to you all for doing the right thing. If the money gets sent back, please consider updating the thread.

It will start the obvious question which the OP raised, which is the APA decision to give to charity.

I personally think the APA should at the very least extend to all the teams that played you a Nationals spot to come play in the show again. There of course will be the issue of how many of these teams can go back to nationals with the same roster or if they would be allowed to change the roster. Thats actually a bit humorous to consider based on what the gist of all that has happened to get to this point.


Comparing this to the BCA debacle of the Taiwan open players is not really apples to apple because in that instance the BCA officials were more negligent to allow both of those players to advance through a 1000 player field only to DQ them at the end. Especially considering all the complaints that were voiced about those players all through the event, they waited until the very end to take action and by that time the collateral damage in the brackets was enormous. In this instance, there hasnt been any indication that the APA knew of this and allowed anything to continue, so a similar response as what happened in the BCA open singles is probably not a fair comparison. Regardless, Im sure the 15k will be a point contention among all the APA teams that were affected by this fraud.
 

racefornine

AzB Silver Member
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also, i will clear this up bc it seems to be asked several times...

every team we played will get a invite back. also every team that played the other 2 teams DQ'd will also

HOWEVER they will have to pay their way, apa covers entry thats it..you pay flight ,hotel, expenses...

i personally know this bc one of my good friends team was beat by a team that got dq'd and this is what they did for them 2 yrs ago.

if you are beat by a team that gets dq'd on spot, you move on like what happened in semi finals, the team we played got drilled in 4 matches in semi's...

We were offered nothing , when I asked for there decision in writing Catie said she could not , if I wanted I could get something from there lawyers but I would have to wait . My LO said none of the teams affected will receive any consideration .
 

alstl

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Where is the cheating team located?

You folks who got cheated are a lot nicer than I.
 

cueporn

Banned
Imo, if you disqualify a team in the money, each team below that team moves up one spot in the payout and the team that busted on the money bubble is now in the money. That's how it is handled in poker and it seems fair to me.

Too fair and obvious for the APA. WTF do they care as long as the money machine keeps rolling. BTW who gets the tax benefits of a donation? They do.

They make a fortune at these tournaments from the casinos who filltheir hotels and gaming floirs. The payouts are nothing compared to what they take in.When there is a problem they wont make any decision based on right and wrong, just dollars and cents.
 
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Spider1

AzB Silver Member
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You're kidding right? Been playing and running leagues out here for 10 years and never have I seen nor heard allegations of cheating in any way.

JC

What league is that?

I've never, ever, in almost 20 years of playing the big 3 leagues and having been at nationals ever seen a league without sandbagging.

Local? Yes. Regional/national? Hell no. They all have sandbagging and ratings shenanigans going on.
 

fish on

AzB Silver Member
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We were offered nothing , when I asked for there decision in writing Catie said she could not , if I wanted I could get something from there lawyers but I would have to wait . My LO said none of the teams affected will receive any consideration .

please let us know when ya get ya invite back!!
it is a past practice
unless ya piss em off
then i guess anything is possible?
 

frankncali

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I think had the apology and different tone came earlier whether sincere or not people here would have thought much differently.

With the comments about your league compared to others I would wonder if the scoresheets are marked correctly regarding table size or if your LO is entering them correctly. It was stated that the team played on 9fters and if not marked properly on score sheet it could cause an issue.
 

cueporn

Banned
If the APA cared to...

they could easily sue these people in civil court for damages and attorney fees. Surely they have legal counsel available. This would require commitment of money and taking the risk , but they would demonstrate their commitment to mandating fair play. Hell just spend a few hundred and serve them legal papers. Most of the time those who are guilty pay to avoid having to spend money to lawyer up. A civil court judge would nail them to the wall.

In place of that YOU GET NOTHING!!!
 
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StonedCEO

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I joined this site because I was interested in getting more serious, and probably joining TAP, BCA, or APA. Been recruited by all 3. I've seen a thread pretty much weekly dealing with drama, in one or the other. This thread pretty much sealed my decision. Life's too short, ill stick with my local bar league and tournaments.
 

Black Cat 5791

I get all the Breaks
Silver Member
I joined this site because I was interested in getting more serious, and probably joining TAP, BCA, or APA. Been recruited by all 3. I've seen a thread pretty much weekly dealing with drama, in one or the other. This thread pretty much sealed my decision. Life's too short, ill stick with my local bar league and tournaments.

I can not say this with enough sincerity, please don't let all of the prima dona's on this site change your mind. There is more good coming from leagues, than the negative.

Black Cat :cool:
 
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