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Sam at TAP

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TAP LLC is looking for some hard working and honest people to bring the TAP pool league to your area. If you are tired of playing "slop", non typical 9 ball rules, tired of constantly breaking your team up due to low team point handicaps and tired of trying to make it to nationals then it is time that you and your friends try TAP.
In a recent Inside Pool magazine article, one of the oldest billiard leagues reported they had less than 1% growth in 2009, adding less than 1,300 new members nationwide that year. TAP on the other hand is now the fastest growing league in the country with new members totaling 8,082 in 2009. There is no slow down in sight for the TAP sales office either. For the first four months of 2010, TAP has recorded record breaking sales with new licensees being added areas such as Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey and Indiana just to name a few.
With TAP's innovative league features including the state of the art Pool-Net system, which includes many options such as, the players statistical module, user friendly report queries and the most advanced handicapping system in the industry and so much more, round robin national formats, TAP's Rally in the Valley at the Super Billiard Expo every March, TAP's traveling nationals going to locations such as New Orleans, Louisville, Charleston, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach and Orlando is a hit with the players and it is no wonder why TAP is now recognized as the leader in the billiard league industry and known as "The league that goes places."
If you are tired of your dinosaur pool league, then try TAP and improve your game with our format. Please call the sales office at 1-800-984-7665 ext. 2 to schedule a quick tour of Pool-Net or visit tapleague.com for more info. Or email me at tappool@aol.com You will not be disappointed and glad you did.
 
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Blackball75 said:
Please explain.
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Short version. TAP started here in IA.

I started as a SL 5. I won my first week, lost my second.(to a 7) Third week a SL 3, won the lag and broke and ran out on me and got a 8 ball break. Next week the system moved me down to a SL 4 and the LO kicked me and my team out of the league for sandbagging.

I called the TAP HQ, they said we hear you run your team like Hitler, like a NAZI. In control making people bag. Keep in mind, we were 4 weeks in, and i was the only person to go down on my roster. And 1 person went up. All new players obviously.

I said, you guys really talk to customers this way ? This is how you all think a business should be run ?

I think the LO did me a favor, because im glad not to be giving my money to people who act, and talk like that to other people they've never met.
 
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Richardson said:
Short version. TAP started here in IA.

I started as a SL 5. I won my first week, lost my second.(to a 7) Third week a SL 3, won the lag and broke and ran out on me and got a 8 ball break. Next week the system moved me down to a SL 4 and the LO kicked me and my team out of the league for sandbagging.

I called the TAP HQ, they said we here you run your team like Hitler, like a NAZI. In control making people bag. Keep in mind, we were 4 weeks in, and i was the only person to go down on my roster. And 1 person went up. All new players obviously.

I said, you guys really talk to customers this way ? This is how you all think a business should be run ?

I think the LO did me a favor, because im glad not to be giving my money to people who act, and talk like that to other people they've never met.
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Now this is funny. I can imagine you marching your "troops" in to play pool, making them sit at attention and clap on command. I think I heard about you when I lived in Omaha :)
 
Tap on!

I am not going allow myself to get dragged in the mud with you guys as I know how in the past this seems to always happen. I have been getting a steady stream of private messages since I posted this earlier today so there is alot of interest in TAP.
TAP is the fastest growing league in the country as per what they printed in IP magazine last month and you can not deny it since it is from their own words and data. TAP is only stating that if you are interested in bringing TAP to your area, then please call us. If not, then we wish you the best in whatever league you decide to play in.
 
cbaumann212 said:
TAP is a joke. I am an APA 7 and play pretty competitively. The TAP Nationals were won by a 3 that plays as good as me.
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im calling bullchit. i was AT nationals, and no way a 3 played like a 7 and won anything.

anyone who played more than 2 skill levels over their handicap was DISQUALIFIED.

TAP is by far the best league going right now in my opinion. the competition is good, they dont break up teams with the 23 rule, and the rules are geared more towards players that want to play the game right.
 
Sam--

I have never played in a TAP league. Could you explain the basics of the handicapping system. Thanks in advance.
 
Fastest Growing?

I do not know where TAP gets off making these absurd claims. In 2007 the TAP league where I live had 63 teams and now has 14 or less.

Seems like I saw a stat last Spring that showed TAP had gone from about 1,700 total teams to a little under 1,710. In fact if I remember correctly they had added 11 league operators and only about 8 total teams.

So based on what are they the fastest growing league?

By the way, I don't doubt the 3 playing like a skl 7 thing. I knew a player who had just gone up to a skl 7 in APA and was playing TAP as a skl 3. I asked if he was embarrassed. He said yes but he was qualified for singles. There are a number of players in this area that play 6 or 7 speed playing TAP as skl 4 or 5. Seems like TAP has the idea that only "pros" can be 7's in their league.
 
TAP league is an absolute JOKE!!!! The rules are terrible, and the people who run that league are deadbeats!!!

Have a nice day!!! :)
 
How can you want to play in a league where the 8 counts on the break, and if you scratch on the break while making the 8 you lose the game? In my opinion, BCA is the best league, with the best rules in the country.
 
Big Dog said:
How can you want to play in a league where the 8 counts on the break, and if you scratch on the break while making the 8 you lose the game? In my opinion, BCA is the best league, with the best rules in the country.
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I agree with you on this rule. What is the handicapping system like? Personally, I don't like handicapping period, but it is necessary for leagues.
 
TAP is a great league for me.
I play in the APA and the TAP league has taken all of the sandbaggers away and given them another place to play and cheat.
In the TAP league in our area, the same team won 3 years in a row and their handicaps went down. Nice system. There are APA 7's in TAP that are playing as 4's.

I should also add that the TAP league is down 40% year over year in our area and the trend is continuing.

If you ask anyone related to the pool industry they will tell you that the owner of TAP is a snake and that their national championship is the joke of the industry.

I have played in the BCA and APA and really enjoyed both.

Bottom line is that the TAP league sucks.
 
Out of all my years in leauges the only governing body or organization that handicaps most accurately is THE BCA.

End of PERIOD. So tired of hearing about the TAP and the APA. One says their a 5 one says there a 3??? Do the math on innings and balls pocketed and there is yoru TRUE speed. Of course your gonan have sandbagging but majority of players want to improve their game and not dump.

Peopel that dump are in the leauge for all the wrong reason. That or they having problems coping with the SMALLER end of the stick if you catch my drift
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Sam at TAP said:
TAP LLC is looking for some hard working and honest people to bring the TAP pool league to your area. If you are tired of playing "slop", non typical 9 ball rules, tired of constantly breaking your team up due to low team point handicaps and tired of trying to make it to nationals then it is time that you and your friends try TAP.
In a recent Inside Pool magazine article, one of the oldest billiard leagues reported they had less than 1% growth in 2009, adding less than 1,300 new members nationwide that year. TAP on the other hand is now the fastest growing league in the country with new members totaling 8,082 in 2009. There is no slow down in sight for the TAP sales office either. For the first four months of 2010, TAP has recorded record breaking sales with new licensees being added areas such as Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey and Indiana just to name a few.
With TAP's innovative league features including the state of the art Pool-Net system, which includes many options such as, the players statistical module, user friendly report queries and the most advanced handicapping system in the industry and so much more, round robin national formats, TAP's Rally in the Valley at the Super Billiard Expo every March, TAP's traveling nationals going to locations such as New Orleans, Louisville, Charleston, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach and Orlando is a hit with the players and it is no wonder why TAP is now recognized as the leader in the billiard league industry and known as "The league that goes places."
If you are tired of your dinosaur pool league, then try TAP and improve your game with our format. Please call the sales office at 1-800-984-7665 ext. 2 to schedule a quick tour of Pool-Net or visit tapleague.com for more info. You will not be disappointed and glad you did.
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Nice work Sam. This would be Sam Rullo from the TAP National Office. VP of sales.

I have seen varioys posts from Mark Griffin of the BCA and also from various APA League Operators. They spen time clarifying misconceptions about their league, not soliciting new members.

The TAP league must be getting desperate if they need to come on here and insult the other league and beg for players.

Well done Sam.
 
APA Gene said:
I do not know where TAP gets off making these absurd claims. In 2007 the TAP league where I live had 63 teams and now has 14 or less.

Seems like I saw a stat last Spring that showed TAP had gone from about 1,700 total teams to a little under 1,710. In fact if I remember correctly they had added 11 league operators and only about 8 total teams.

So based on what are they the fastest growing league?

By the way, I don't doubt the 3 playing like a skl 7 thing. I knew a player who had just gone up to a skl 7 in APA and was playing TAP as a skl 3. I asked if he was embarrassed. He said yes but he was qualified for singles. There are a number of players in this area that play 6 or 7 speed playing TAP as skl 4 or 5. Seems like TAP has the idea that only "pros" can be 7's in their league.
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only two ways for what you are saying to happen. the player LIED about his known skill level when he entered tap, or this is proof of just how far apa will go to break up a team and increase membership. (raised a guy all the way to a 7 when he didnt belong there).

if you are an apa 7, you will probably be somewhere around a 5 or 6 in tap. the competition is much stronger.

you don't have to be a pro to be a 7 in tap, but you won't be a 7 unless you are breaking and running several racks per match.

they don't artificially inflate skill levels to break teams up the way the apa does.
 
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