TAP pool leagues add 35 new licensees

[rugerfan]

I captain both TAP and BCA teams weekly and enjoy them for what they are. It allows play against other skilled oppentents, friendly but also competitive. I also played APA years ago but those days are long gone. We have a pretty good number of quality players in the DC/Baltimore corridor. Baltimore has always been considered a pool town (just look at number of world class cue builders are in the general area). Pool is a huge part of our lives and we have met a lot of good friends thru the sport.

Like someone else said, jerks will always try to skirt the rules and try to get an advantage. It's in all walks of life. We owe it to ourselves to call out S.B.'s on their B.S. I call it the way I see it, good or bad. We will continue to support and compete in TAP...

Carefull what you ask for there Greg. I just hope you bought that 21 point cue you were looking at. At least you'll look good when your rackin...hey,hey!

 

[FLICKit]

I believe that TAP could do more to stop sandbagging. I have seen a 3 handicap get DQ'ed at titleholders 2 times as a 3 and play in his 3rd titleholder as a 3.

TAP does keep more stats than the APA, but they do not do a game by game format wich promotes bagging, as well as letting people shoot 1.5-2.0 over thier cap at big events.

Could you imagine your first national trip with TAP, you go 10-1 leading upto natioanls, and you drive over 1000 miles away and on day 1 in the round robin, you get dq'ed? Now you sit there 1000 miles away from home, and they won't even let you compete in the mini's. Even if your a 3, and you say HEY, then make me a 7 and let me play in the mini's, they say no.

I have asked the question, why not raise people during the big events, let your all pro pool-net system do it's job and raise people, they said, what if everyone on the team gets raised and they can't compete, i said what if everyone on the team gets DQ'ed, they can't get play anyways. A DQ does nothing but make the league smaller. I have seen several honest players get DQ'ed and never come back to the league. Quite sad.

THe level of competition in tap is uncomparable to the APA. It is another night out with friends, and fun to bang balls with the best players around. I will be in TAP as long as it is around, but our town has gone from 20 teams to 6 teams in recent years.

I figured there was alot of good said about TAP , people should be aware of the bad. LORD knows i am not allowed to post any questions on the TAP message boards, they just wanna ban me for 30 days everytime i ask them a question. I got banned from facebook, because i asked why certain area's are allowed to roster 2-7 handicaps and some area's are not, but we all must abide by the same rules in dream team events and nationals. THey sent me a letter saying that they use facebook to promote the league and i am banned for 30 days. THey could have just given me a simple explanation.

I also seen TAP DQ a 17 year old kid as a 6 in the singles event at Valley Forge. He was down 4-1 in a race to 5 and came back to win and got dq'ed. THe kid is a mogul in TAP. Has never bagged in his life. He also played as a 6 on my team the following year at valley forge. SO the kid gets dq'ed as a6 and then they let him come back the next year as a 6. This refers back to the 3 who got dq'ed twice and played in his 3rd titleholder as a 3.

THe level of competition in tap is uncomparable to the APA. It is another night out with friends, and fun to bang balls with the best players around. I will be in TAP as long as it is around, but our town has gone from 20 teams to 6 teams in recent years. SO while other places may be flourishing, our area is diminishing.

If you like to bang balls around with weak players. join APA, if you like stiff competition, then play TAP.

Really??? They banned you for asking that question? That sounds a bit too hard to swallow.

 

[KellySr]

Welcome to TAP - to our 35 New Licensees ! Look forward to working with you all.

At TAP, as Sam stated, we are working hard every day to promote and release new formats, products and capabilities to our players and licensees alike. Pool Net has been a great development to give statistical access to our players and capabilities to our licensees to run top notch organizations. There is more to come and to be released.

I am not a fan of negativity and sometimes posts tend to take twists and turns away from the original subject at hand.

I have always felt that as a licensee myself, we should promote the brand that we bought into. We don't have to put someone elses products down to promote our own. If you like fruit, no one tells you, you have to pick between an apple, orange and a banana. Each has its different shapes, sizes and tastes. If you like them all, have a great fruit salad and enjoy ! The billiard industry should be the same, before we give the players a bad taste in their mouth and they avoid fruit altogether.

Sandbagging every league and operator faces its challenges with. Peer to Peer pressure, in my opinion, is the best remedy. Player to player they know what is going on. Whenever you have humans involved, you will have someone trying to manipulate to get the upper hand. Some say its strategy or playing the rules, but at the end of the day we all have it.

Erik The Great - I did email you and suspend you for a time period from Facebook, not because you asked a question or made a suggestion, because of your negativity with the answers and explanations given to you and your reaction of each. I am going to strongly suggest to both of the TAP operators that you play for, to have a face to face conversation with you and get it cleared up and explain our position.

In closing, I had a 10 year old come up to me at a tournament today and say, "Kel, you wanna see my patch collection?" I said sure. He showed me the TAP, APA, and BCA collection he had of Nationals, memberships, break and break and run patches he had collected. He said "when I save enough money, I am gonna buy a cue and play for them all and go all over the place." That put it all in a great prospective for me.

So, enjoy your fruit salad and be 10 again.

Always for the Pool Player and this great industry we are all in!

 

[D_Lewis]

The way TAP is going after the CPA in Toronto is a joke... They are telling all cpa players that if you join TAP you will play 1 skill level lower then what you play in the Cpa so if i am a sl7 i will play as a sl6... That to me is sandbagging and that is going after someones business. Thats not the way to run a league.. But i wish you all luck .

Mike Romita offers this exact same thing for players to leave CPA in Burlington, Guelph or Scarborough to play in Mississauga. Just throwing that out there.

One of the problems with the CPA/APA is the handicaps being capped at 7. You can look my handicap info up if you'd like, since you're a CPA league rep for John but compare the other people in your area who have the same number beside their names and tell me that we should all be the same. TAP has those same top level talent players but then players who are like myself who may be bubble players still get a small spot when playing them.

I have to say I agree with you totally here Sam. It seems that maybe labatt ice Rod should climb out of that beer bottle as his opinions seem a little one sided. Maybe he has had issues where the only league he can play in at this time is CPA. I am a true supporter of the sport of pool and respect all of the time and effort that all members are must commit to in order to make a league successful. It seems to me unless you try it, dont knock it!!! Scarborough TAP rocks, it has tripled in size within a year, yes, that is good business!!! Competition at its finest!:smile:

TAP is growing in Scarborough and Mississauga. Burlington/Hamilton isnt taking off as much as they would have expected but I think with a little effort it will grow also. I think that has to do with one of the host location having really shitty tables. Just a guess, is this Linda?

Im a long time APA/CPA supporter, a recent TAP player because I got a little screwed over via APA head office.

I just want to be able to hang out with my buddies and shoot a few games of pool.

I will be at TAP Nationals this upcoming November with my team from Mississauga 'Color of Money CB1'

 

[gman_tx]

I have played in both APA and TAP have have enjoyed them both. For me I personally like the game play and rules in TAP as I think it helps you grow and learn faster than APA. They are both fun as with most leagues in any sport in can be bad if you have a bad operator or a few bad members that are not trying to have a good time like everyone else around you. As for sandbaggers I know they do exist but I think that there are much less in both leagues than people say. Personally I think that most people have a hard time excepting the fact that they have lost to a lower ranked person and are quick to use the excuse of being beaten by a sandbagger. Maybe I will have a different look at this in November when I make my first trip to a National event.

 

[OneIron]

Would love to get TAP in our area.