My first APA 8-ball night - lesson learned

[BrokeStroke]

Are you sure it's your winning percentage, and not the top half of your division? That's the way it is in the team manual. The manual also says "subject to heavy scrutiny and/or loss of eligibility."

I will elaborate a little. And this was told to me by 2 league reps and the LO.

If we wanted to take the summer off (and that is the short session), we would forfeit our shot at regionals. It didnt matter that we were coming back for the fall session, and the fact that 3 of our 6 players were going to shoot for other teams.
Second, our team would have to stay in the top half of the division for the remainder of the YEAR, not just the following session, or we would lose our eligibility.

I doubt that the 3 of us that were taking the session off were going to go out and practice to the point of becoming unstoppable. (Im already a 7 so i cant go up. One woman is a 3 and her kid is starting school at the end of summer. The last guy just doesnt want to shoot.) The other 3 guys were going to shoot for another team, but we were told to either keep the team or lose our shot.

Honestly, its not that big a deal to me and 2 others on the team, but it is to the remaining teammates. One for all, and all for Vegas.
Its just ashame that there are no other leagues (TAP, VNEA, BCAPL) around here to give our LO some competition so he knows, in order to keep people, he should part with some of that 'hard-earned' money.

 

[justadub]

I will elaborate a little. And this was told to me by 2 league reps and the LO.

If we wanted to take the summer off (and that is the short session), we would forfeit our shot at regionals. It didnt matter that we were coming back for the fall session, and the fact that 3 of our 6 players were going to shoot for other teams.
Second, our team would have to stay in the top half of the division for the remainder of the YEAR, not just the following session, or we would lose our eligibility.

I doubt that the 3 of us that were taking the session off were going to go out and practice to the point of becoming unstoppable. (Im already a 7 so i cant go up. One woman is a 3 and her kid is starting school at the end of summer. The last guy just doesnt want to shoot.) The other 3 guys were going to shoot for another team, but we were told to either keep the team or lose our shot.

Honestly, its not that big a deal to me and 2 others on the team, but it is to the remaining teammates. One for all, and all for Vegas.
Its just ashame that there are no other leagues (TAP, VNEA, BCAPL) around here to give our LO some competition so he knows, in order to keep people, he should part with some of that 'hard-earned' money.

Well, if there were enough people to keep the team going, it shouldn't matter if three of you dropped out for the session. You can add/drop every session. I don't know if it's a local rule or a national rule but as long as there are 4 people from the team that qualified, you can add/drop and still keep the spot in the qualifing tourney. If your LO still has a team playing, it shouldn't matter which players are playing, again so long as enough originals are there for the regional aspect of it.

Maybe that is a local thing. Too lazy to look it up, but I know that's how it's done here. Happened to us last year.