The official signup for the general public concluded with 15 teams enrolled. If it remains at this quantity, there will be a BYE week scheduled for a different team each week and the season will end on 25Sept2025’s Party night.
If any other individuals or teams are interested to join in, please notify the venue (Shooter’s Sports Bar and Billiards, Grayslake Illinois) before Tuesday, 10Jun2025:7:00pm. The venue will, in turn, notify the league operator by the final deadline of 8pm on the same night.
The season’s match play officially begins on Thursday, 13Jun2025 at 7:30pm.
The captains/delegates at the meeting participated in a rule change discussion and vote. Summary of the discussions and changes:
- Rule 20Ei: adding: The MAXIMUM Bonus awarded will be capped at 16 points.
- REMINDER of Rule 21B: Game: If a player abandons the match before all her/his games have been played, then each un-played game/s will be forfeited with 10 points awarded to the opponent and zero for the deserter (and the zeros will not be credited to the deserter’s average). The only exception is if the deserter departed due to a verifiable emergency issue.
- It was voted that is NOT a foul if a Coach uses a cue stick to show/coach his player on how to hit the shot. See Rule 9A
- Scotch Doubles. It was recently changed to one coach per team/per game, which has helped with the time constraints. However, it is a friendly/fun tournament being played on party night. If a team already had their one coach for that game and tries to have another coach, just inform them they already had their one coach, it will not be a ball-in-hand foul. Remember, this is all for fun and comradery.
- ENVELOPES (Rule 18D) Reminder: Each player listed on the team’s envelope is accountable to record the EXACT numeric dollar amount they inserted on a GIVEN DATE/WEEK for their name. For example, 0 for Week 3, then $40 for Week 4. PLEASE do not change any previous amounts on the envelope that were already entered.
- ACS Sanctioning. It was unanimously voted to NOT be ACS Sanctioned starting with the 2025 Summer Season.
RAFFLE Status:
There were 272 chances invested in this evening’s raffle opportunity.
- John R: Table 6: first one selected for the 2025 Summer season. He sunk the 6-ball in the corner pocket. He had a not-so-easy bank on the 1-ball, but made it with authority, leaving him a long straight-in shot on the 2-ball. He made that with ease and with no shot on the 3-ball, ended with 3/9ths of the pot.
- Josh G was selected next: Table 2: Made the 3-ball in the corner and the 5-ball in the side on his break. He had a great shot on the 1-ball, but didn’t want to chance the 2-ball in the side or run it down to the corner passed the 4-ball. He also settled for 3/9ths of the pot.
- The remaining raffle pot rolls over to 2025 Summer’s Week 01.
OTHER:
- We have one person left on the teamless signup sheet if anyone is in need of a player/sub. Please contact Nancy if you are interested.
- A HUGE Shout Out to Jim McCauley for the beautiful shadowbox with Paul’s cue stick, claw (that Jim made for him years ago), glove, chalk holder all in memory of Paul H Adler’s many, many years of being our favorite League Operator. Thank you so much Jim. It is hung above the schedule and stats for everyone to see and remember! (Thanks for hanging it so quickly and securely Bill!)