Captains or representatives from 14 teams attended the mid-season captains meeting. Those captains that did not attend the meeting should read these minutes to see what they missed, especially the part on time-outs, as two significant rule changes were voted on.
Banquet
This year’s banquet will be on Friday, December 6 at the Crown Hotel at 7pm. This is due to a prior booking on December 13, the date we ideally wanted.
Tournaments
By a vote of 13-0, tournaments will continue to be double elimination. Following discussion, a vote was 11-2 in favour of ranking points counting in double elimination tournaments.
Score sheets
Captains are reminded to ensure that new or migrating players are entered on the website and the names of new players on a team be clearly marked on the score sheet. Unknown players are always a major headache for the executive committee, one that can be easily relieved by captains taking a couple of minutes to check that their matches are entered correctly.
A comment option when editing matches will be added presently to try and help captains clear up any confusion concerning unknown or new/migrated players.
The rules concerning score sheets will also be reworded to:
1.3.2. After Match Play is completed it is the Team Captain's responsibility to enter the match scores into the database. The opposing team’s captain should double check the entered scores and modify any new or migrated players in his team. After the match scores are submitted, the score sheets must be handed in. This can be the next day, or the day after, but no later than within a week.
1.3.3. The President of the League will be responsible to set up a location for score sheets to be dropped off at and collect the score sheets from this location.
New Secretary
Emily Yang has had to step down as secretary. Many thanks for all her hard work for the league this year. Thanks also to Jumie Ahn who has agreed to be the secretary until the end of the year.
New Executive Committee
A new executive committee will be voted in at the banquet. Those interested need to form a team of 4 people (president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary).
New executive committee member
At the last captains meeting, a proposal was made to appoint a steering committee or extra committee member to look at ways the league can develop and improve. The current committee felt that finding more people to volunteer for such a role would be difficult. Instead, to try and garner the opinions of the league, the committee will set up polls for league members to express their opinions on issues concerning the IPL.
Time-outs
There have been 2 changes to the time-out rule, effective immediately.
The rule was:
1.6.2. A player is limited to 1 time-out per a game in singles games. Each time-out is not to exceed 2 minutes, and may be called by the player or the captain of the player's team. If the captain calls the time out, he/she may do so at any time prior to the player making contact with the cue ball with his/her cue.
It has been changed to:
1.6.2. A player is limited to 1 time-out per a game in singles games. Each time-out is not to exceed 2 minutes, and may be called by the player or the player's team. If the team calls the time out, he/she may do so at any time prior to the player making contact with the cue ball with his/her cue.
This was passed by an 11-1 vote
The second rule change concerns refusing time-outs.
If a player’s team calls a time-out, it will be counted as the time-out for that game, whether the player shooting wants to receive advice or not. The player shooting cannot refuse to accept the time-out and then call a time-out later in the game.
The vote was unanimous.
Trophies for most special games
It was proposed that the player with the most special games (8-ball runs or break & runs) be recognised at the end of the season. This was voted in unanimously. However, rather than receiving a trophy it was decided that some other form of recognition be awarded.
By a vote of 9-3, it was decided that one award be made for the player with the most 8-ball runs and break & runs combined, rather than separate awards for the most 8-ball runs and one for the most break & runs.
Table run pin
This will be awarded to players who run all the balls available when they first select stripes or solids but miss out on an 8-ball run because one or more balls in that set have already been potted.
This was voted in unanimously.
T-shirts
A proposal was made that Itaewon Pool League t-shirts be made for league members wishing to purchase them. The committee will look into this further, especially as to what the shirts could cost, and what the best method of ordering and receiving payment would be.
