Free APA patches

I see APA patches plastered all over the jackets with APA logo shirt, hat and keychain quite regularly where I shoot. The 23 rule is making it difficult to get a table and teams are multiplying like rabbits.

I feel like a minority outcast being a lowly BCA member for playing scratch and for actual cash.

-Kat
 
Dave-Kat said:
I see APA patches plastered all over the jackets with APA logo shirt, hat and keychain quite regularly where I shoot. The 23 rule is making it difficult to get a table and teams are multiplying like rabbits.

I feel like a minority outcast being a lowly BCA member for playing scratch and for actual cash.

-Kat
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i never see any one sportin patches around here...except for one old lady that does have a nationals patch on her case.

i am guilty of wearing a nationals cap:grin:

very few around here wear apa shirts except when ltc's come up....guess they want to intimidate their opponents then. :D

as for gambling...you would be in hog heaven here. quite a few league players gamble.....seen mostly 20.00 a rack 9 ball on both big and bar tables.

seen 800.00 and 1,000.00 races to 10 9 and 10 ball. yes they are apa players. :grin:
 
Hey everyone,
I’ve seen a lot of players proudly showing off their APA patches — definitely a great way to celebrate achievements. It’s awesome that APA offers these patches for free. Do they still send them by mail, or is there a new process now?
 
as easy as it is to get patches why would anyone want patches they didn’t earn. 😂. I got piles of them. I’ve had matches where I got as many as 5 in the same match
 
My GF and I play in our local APA league, and play in both an 8 ball, and a 9 ball division. We're the ones that give out the patches to whoever gets them for those two divisions. They really are a big deal for people when they first start playing, and for when someone beats a higher level handicap person in the league.

In our league, any patches earned in a match get communicated to the League Operator through the scoring app. There is a "comments" section, at the final stage of submitting the match results in the app, where those achievements would get noted. The league operator then compiles the patches earned, and forwards a list to us. My girl then puts whatever patches are earned into little baggies for each team, with a note as to who gets what, and will give them out to those teams when we play them. She also brings her box of patches to our weekly matches, and if someone earns one while playing our team, they get the patch right away. We call that "insta-patch". Every now and then, someone will remember a patch that they should have earned, and with the scoring app, most can be documented within the app, so they'll get that patch then too. We went a long time when no patches were distributed under a previous LO, so our new one made it a point to correct that, and my GF has really taken to . She does a great job of making sure anyone that earns one, gets it.
 
fastone371 said:
My favorite "patches" from pool are the ones with dead presidents on them.
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Don't forget when they use to actually give trophies. I had a friend who had a storage unit and they were filled with nothing but pool trophies. He didn't play in leagues it was something he accumulated through various tournaments.

That was a regular joke...give us the money that it costs to order that trophy. LOL

I always get a kick out of the trophy being to be presented .

Now a gold bracelet would be different.
 
billiards_watch said:
Don't forget when they use to actually give trophies. I had a friend who had a storage unit and they were filled with nothing but pool trophies. He didn't play in leagues it was something he accumulated through various tournaments.

That was a regular joke...give us the money that it costs to order that trophy. LOL

I always get a kick out of the trophy being to be presented .

Now a gold bracelet would be different.
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I actually think that trophies for amateurs is better than cash.
Money comes and goes, the trophy stays forever and tells a story.
It also keeps bad elements away from amateur pool
 
Iwishiwasrich said:
I don't know one person that joined a pool league for or because of patches,and I know a lot of people that play league pool.
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One year a long time ago I played league. I never did it again. Just not for me.

A guy had patches glued to his case. When I got some patches he suggested I glue them to my case...a Fellini...no, that's OK...

I think it's cool that people are into it. Just not my gig.

I am still surprised to see them on EBay.
 
billiards_watch said:
Don't forget when they use to actually give trophies. I had a friend who had a storage unit and they were filled with nothing but pool trophies. He didn't play in leagues it was something he accumulated through various tournaments.

That was a regular joke...give us the money that it costs to order that trophy. LOL

I always get a kick out of the trophy being to be presented .

Now a gold bracelet would be different.
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Probably depends on the trophy, right? If you won a BIG tournament, with cash AND a trophy, would you rather have the extra $50 or the trophy? Gimme that trophy all day baby!!
 
easy-e said:
Probably depends on the trophy, right? If you won a BIG tournament, with cash AND a trophy, would you rather have the extra $50 or the trophy? Gimme that trophy all day baby!!
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If I had to guess. APA bulk trophies cost like $5 and 50 cents per patch.
 
billiards_watch said:
Don't forget when they use to actually give trophies. I had a friend who had a storage unit and they were filled with nothing but pool trophies. He didn't play in leagues it was something he accumulated through various tournaments.

That was a regular joke...give us the money that it costs to order that trophy. LOL

I always get a kick out of the trophy being to be presented .

Now a gold bracelet would be different.
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When I was a kid i was in a junior bowling league and we had an awards banquet at the end of the year. I was embarrassed because I got like 8 trophies for that league and nobody else got anything. They would announce what the award was for then say the name of the winner, they started handing 2 trophies to me at once.
 
Somewhere I think I still have one small trophy I won in some local tournament in the late 80's. It's the only one I ever won. I didn't think it was a big deal. In fact I just remembered it while visiting this thread.

I also have two trophies I won in a local custom motorcycle show for a chopper I built 25 years ago. I didn't enter it in the show, my friend did without me knowing. I was just there to hang out and look at bikes. I went back to the bike at some point and it had a number on it, an entry in the show. It's a vintage Triumph chopper, I still have it. It turns out a girl at that event liked the bike, she had asked me to enter it and I declined. So, she went to my friend and he did it. She was a bit of a cutie, barely dressed, and went around the event drumming up votes for the bike, pretty much "showing off" herself as I am sure you can understand. I think it's hilarious how the bike won two trophies. Somewhere I have a picture of me and her with the bike. They also took a professional photo of me with the bike for a magazine. I have a big print of that somewhere.

I have those two trophies around somewhere too.

I think I treat such things as "been there done that, once is enough". And even then I mostly don't seek such things out. I even treat my professional career that way. I don't care about my CV and haven't for 15 years. The awards, degrees, certificates etc. that I earned are packed away. I don't care about them much. I don't have a "glory wall" in my office.

I think the real trophies are my memories.
 
One of my favs!

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