APA End of Session Payouts..

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rope_one

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Does your league have them or is it just trophies? Our league did have a payout for the top 3 teams of every session, but is currently eliminating them. Just curious if other still have payouts or if payouts are unusual. If you have them which state are you in?

Thanks for the feedback.
 
We only get plaques. No payouts, no trophies.
Our 8-ball team won the division twice and our 9-ball team won the division once. All I have is plaques. Since our 9-ball team won the playoffs and are division high point winners, we can only advance to City Cup and not receive any cash payouts unless we get to regionals and place.

For City Cup:
If a division winner team wins all scheduled matches, they advance to regionals and can continue play in the tournament.
If a division winner team places in the tournament, cash prizes are awarded.
If a high point winner team wins all scheduled matches, they advance to regionals and are ineligible for cash prizes.
 
we get a small payout if we make it out of our division (100 dollars for the team) and more cash if we qualify for states
 
I wish leagues would give a prize out to the top finishing team for the season not just a playoff spot for a Vegas trip or something.

My teams must have finished top in a season 4-5 times but we never were able to win a playoffs to get the final trip. You should get someting for bring top team at end of season, even $50-100 per player would be nice, just something to show you outlasted the other teams.

My TAP team is in first place, I think our reward is that we get home room advantage in the playoffs, which is actually nice since our home room is a real pool hall with 9' decent GCIII tables, but it's not money hehe.
 
Team trophies, in one area. In another there was a payout. However teams voted and put the fund in the Tri-Annual Cup. (For Cash). LTC,Cities, States ect. Is used to advance to APA National Championships.
 
No payout here. The division winners get plaques, then when all the playoffs for that session are done a sort of area-wide trophy winners tournament is held, one for 8 ball and one for 9 ball. The top two places are paid in each. I understand the payout is not what we'd win if we were to win cities, but it's not that bad
 
When I was a new APA LO (1991) we were taught that the concept of the APA league was not based on cash payouts, and that very few of the LO's had any kind of "payback" system. At the time, Terry Justice, the #1 APA LO paid back something like $100K locally...but he had over 1000 teams then! I had a payback in only one of my five league areas, and the players paid an extra dollar each week to have a payback. Whenever I ran the end of the year tournaments to see who would go to Vegas, the other teams in the playoffs got cash prizes.

Scott Lee
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In my area it's trophies for session play and plaques for top-shooter. The money is saved for tri-annual and LTC matches.
 
Wow....I guess we have it pretty good here.

In addition to trophies (plaques for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams, individual trophies and patches for each member of the first place team, and a plaque for top shooter, who aso gets a patch and $50) each of the four playoff teams gets a cash payout.

The payout is determined by how many teams there were in the division that session. For instance this past session for 8-ball there were 13 teams. First place split close to $1000, second, third and fourth incrementally lower.

There are also cash prizes for each team in each round at states. Nothing at tri cup, beyond trophies.

We pay $45 per team each week, some of the extra cash goes to fund these prizes plus other tournies.

Its not a huge payout, the fourth place team players sometimes end up with $15-20 each, when we won first a while ago it was over $100 per player. Kinda nice to get something.
 
I'll never understand the success of APA or the other national leagues. I run in house leagues, some that play other rooms in the area and some that play at just one room. I pay out 100% of the fees, there are no annual dues and no payments of any kind. One dollar from each player goes to the room owner for the tables (they make their money from bar business). One of my current sessions is coming to an end and the pay out (each team gets something back at the end of the session) is going to be about $4500 with the first place team getting about 35% (chopped between a 4 man team).....the players love it ...the room owners love it....

everybody wins...
 
I'm in California and top two teams get a payout I believe first is $360 for first place for the team and second is $240. First place gets plaques as well and automatically placed in tricups. The next four teams play in the playoffs. And we have about 4-6 teams that advance from tri-cups to LTC, payout Is about $700 per team for tri-cup.
 
Don't feel so bad. Consider this, our APA league has remained stable size-wise for the last eight/nine years. Prior to the last five years, we would receive $6,000 for advancing LTC teams not counting Vegas money for the winning teams. Apparently, the built-in system profit wasn't enough for our money-hungry LO as he decided to return that $6,000 to the "LO CONTROLLED PRIZE FUND." That's $30,000 we have never received a dime of. (How do you trigger an IRS audit?). Love to see how he returned that $ to his players on the books. Another area APA LO, who has been around a lot longer, never added any LTC money since his conception. So, he's no saint too but maybe it's less painful this way than having it taken away from you.

The days of receiving $599 per player or even $5,000 per eight-player Vegas team is so old considering the rising cost of travel these days and the profits earned and TAKEN, not to mention an 1/8 of three crummy Riviera rooms.
 
We get trophies AND cash. But then again, our LO is AWESOME. Top gun tournaments every session, captains tournaments, doubles tournaments, singles tournaments, ect, ect..ect... All with added money.
 
In our APA the L/O runs a money tournament for the top 2 finishers in each division in both 8&9 ball for each session. She also runs top gun and captains tournaments each session. I didn't join the APA to win money, I joined to play pool and she gives us a chance to play more of it this way.

This is not a social activity for the L/O's. It's a business. I'm sure some of them do it because they enjoy it but all of them are in business to make money. I know I never went to work just for the fun of it.
 
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