Final Divisions for 2022 – August start

8 Ball Division A

  • Hustlers Easy Money
  • Sportsman Sportsmen
  • Sport Corner
  • Hustlers Fun
  • Sportsman SOS 8B
  • Breakers Sun 8B

8 Ball Division B

  • Kicking Donkey
  • Hustlers Ballbreakers
  • Meetup Rock
  • Sportsman Cardinals 8B
  • Dive Bar 22
  • Sports Academy Ace

8 Ball Division C

  • Blue Boar 8B
  • The Game 8B
  • D-Nice 8B
  • Sportsman Breaking Bad 8B
  • Keep in Touch 8B
  • Scruffy Murphy’s

As was noted in the Captain’s meeting, we need more 8 ball teams – this will be a 14 week season with a lot of byes.

9 Ball Division A

  • Breakers Fun
  • Sportsman Safari
  • Sportsman MOD
  • Breakers Live Cobra 9B
  • Meet Up Rockers
  • Sportsman Storm
  • Hustlers United
  • Ice Breakers

9 Ball Division B

  • Breaking Bad 9B
  • D-Nice 9 B
  • Sportsman SOS 9B
  • Golden Breakers
  • Keep in Touch
  • Blue Boar 9B
  • The Game 9B
  • Kiwi

9 Ball Division C

  • Breakers Sun
  • Meetup Monsters
  • Sportsman Globetrotters 9B
  • Suzie Oasis
  • Sportsman Cardinals 9B
  • Why Not 9B
  • B52 New Cowboy
  • Buddy’s Bar Silom

End of Season schedule and beginning of new season

The current Bangkok Pool League season is coming to a close with the last match on the set fixtures on 22 June. There are make-up matches scheduled through 30 June with some others yet to be scheduled (through 6 July is available for make-up matches). The End of Season party/Awards ceremony will be 27 July at Breakers Live. There will be a Captain’s meeting for all team captain’s (including new teams) on 25 July at Why Not. The new season will start on 8 August.

Anyone who wishes to add a new team for the new season, please contact Reto, John or Al by mid-July.

Summary of Captain’s Meeting – 21 Feb 2022

Welcome

Introduce new venues

Rules

1 – Drinks (done – host venue buys one round for both teams) 

2 – Food (not mandatory but encouraged – venues that will not provide food, please let visiting teams know in advance)

3 – Late players and starting numbers (can start with 2 players – need 4 to finish or forfeit missed frames)

4 – Drink prices (The Bangkok Pool League cannot tell venues how they price – we suggest specials on pool night for the pool teams)

Divisions

Ask if any 8 ball team would be willing to move to 9 ball – No

If not, ask Captains whether we restrict to 16 or go with 10 team schedule (a lot of byes) – Suggested that we approach additional teams to try and get to 18 or 20. (Thunder dropped, so we are at 16 – 8-ball locked)

Draw 8 ball list and have Captains say where their team should go (1 to 16 or 17) – done – ranking was very successful

Divide into divisions – make adjustments for 2 team per venue rule – finalize divisions – done – see division lists

Draw 9 ball list and have Captains say where their team should go (1 to 24) – done – ranking was very successful – (New Cowboy bar added, at 24 – 9 ball locked)  

Divide into divisions – make adjustments for 2 team per venue rule – finalize divisions – done – ranking was very successful – Captains agreed

Format (unchanged)? – Format to be unchanged agreed.

Application

Reto suggestions – 

  • Use request mutation function
  • Before adding a player, check the player list
  • All Captains – please open application and transfer teams to new season – some were doing right there.

COVID 19 Restrictions

With government announced restrictions regarding pubs and bars for the balance of April, the Bangkok Pool League is on hold pending change of restrictions.

Team captains’ meeting

On 9 November, shortly before the end of season party, team captains gathered at Sportsman to discuss a number of issues regarding the upcoming season.

The first issue discussed was format to be played.

Overwhelmingly, the Captains voted for the mixed format to be dropped and return to 8-ball on Monday and 9-ball on Wednesday.

After consideration, the 8-ball format of 6 singles, 4 doubles, 6 singles and 4 doubles was retained, but the scoring system was changed so each night is a match, with a team either win, lose or draw. Frames to be used as a tie-breaker. This was by vote of Captains.

Consideration was given to 9-ball being a race or multiple races or a fixed number of frames and a vote was taken of options. The vote was for 31 total frames (not a race), with each night being a match – win or lose. Frame count used for tie-breakers. This format was later modified by vote among the Captains to 27 frames in the Line Group based on concerns that 31 frames might go long.

Division match ups were discussed, with the final consensus by most Captains that they wanted more variety in who they played and a solution that would allow for promotion and demotion as seasons go forward. Also, the use of handicaps was voted down as unnecessary with the number of teams because over time the divisions should be competitive (and the committee should do the best they can to set up the divisions to be competitive).

Brief discussion of financial support for the application was tabled when John said he believed the current fees were adequate to allow for supporting the application and related costs with the number of teams expected.

Owners meeting

On 9 November, we had an owner’s meeting to discuss some specific items.

The first item was regarding mandatory food and drink provided by the host venue. There were some points made by a number of owners regarding having these items not be mandatory as well as options to have it be a choice (food or drink).

In the end, the options that were voted on were:

1. Food not mandatory, but venues are welcome to provide it as they see fit, drinks to continue as set with host venue buying a round.

2. Venues to provide one or the other, but not expected/required to provide both.

3. Remain as is, but make it clearly stated in the rules that drinks cannot be “upgraded” – people must get a drink of same or lesser value than what they are drinking.

Although the vote was close, option 3 was supported by the most bar owners.

The second item was regarding what the Pool League can do for the venues. One bar owner has requested that teams take a photo during the match, post it to Facebook and tag it with the venue. This is straight-forward and can be done thorough the scoring application by any player. Other owners requested that players try to make sure they have a reasonable bill – that the venue is providing food and one drink, and it is really not fair for a customer or team to be spending just a couple hundred baht over the three or four hours of the night. We all know times are tough, but the venues are not charities. They voted to retain food and drink because they understand times are tough, but they are tough for the venues as well.