Fall
Dear Members, The LAPL board has voted on a few items that will directly affect the Fall 2024 Playoffs.
First and foremost, we have decided to delay the start of the playoffs by one week due to the unprecedented threat from the fires in the Los Angeles area over the past 5 days. For everyone's safety we feel the delay is in the best interest of the league and most importantly the members. We hope all of you and your families are safe in this tragic event. The league calendar and playoff brackets have been updated to reflect these changes.
There are 9 teams in the league, and only 8 will qualify for the playoffs. We are requiring teams to commit to possible Thursday play, or they will not be allowed to participate in the playoffs. Please let us know as soon as possible, so we can put a team into the bracket that can participate without forfeiting out on the loser's side of the bracket.
The board has decided to eliminate any participation requirements for the Hi-Lo, Individuals and Women's tournaments as we have done in all previous non-WCC seasons. Meaning if you are on a roster and played a game you are welcome to participate in our post season tournaments.
Let us know if you have any questions or if we can help you in any way. Please stay safe.
LAPL Board
Steve, Jon, Al and Bryan
Fellow Los Angeles Pool League Members,
As we enjoy our Winter break, I wanted to wish each of you a safe and enjoyable holiday season. Our 10th and final week of regular season play is on January 7th. Play offs for the top 8 teams will begin the following Tuesday night. Playoffs will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The play off bracket will be posted online with the locations of play after our 10th week.
Captains, if your team cannot play on Thursday nights, and does not want to be included in the playoffs, please notify the Board on the last night of play by writing a note on your score sheet for the statistician so that we do not include you in the bracket.
The top 2 teams in play offs will receive trophies at our Fall 2024 Award’s Party in March.
Our last fundraiser of the season is on Sunday January 12th, Sudden Death (5 and Out) is at the Eagle LA 12 noon registration. Charlie and Hunter, the owners of the Eagle LA donated $300 in recognition of our 50th anniversary so let's have a big turn out and show our sponsor we appreciate their generosity.
There is no West Coast Challenge at the end of this season, but we will be having our Hi-Lo Tournament on Sunday, January 26th at Jerry’s. $15 registration starts at 12 noon. There is no late registration. You must physically be there. The 1st Place team will receive a trophy at our Fall 2024 Award’s Party in March.
For all our new members this season, come out and use this as well as the February 8th tournaments as a dry run for next seasons qualifiers to the West Coast Challenge in Long Beach.
Our Open Individuals and Women’s is on Saturday, February 8th at Jerry’s. $15 registration. Individuals' registration begins at 11am and Women’s is at 1pm. There is no late registration. You must physically be there. The top 8 Individuals and Top 4 Women will also receive trophies at our Fall 2024 Award’s Party in March.
WELCOME TO THE BOARD!!!! This season there are only 4 board members doing the job that 7 should be. At least 2 of those 4 board members have expressed a desire not to be on the board after over a decade of service to the league. The league needs members to step up and volunteer if it's going to survive. Without new board members we may not have a league in the very near future.
If you have the skills and the right temperament we need you on the board.
If you are interested in serving on our Board of Governors, please write your name on the scoresheet when we return in January for week 10 or any time during the first week of playoffs. You can also reply to this email that you are interested or to request more information.
If we have the same number of nominees as positions open, there will be no balloting and the Board has the authority to fill those positions. These are volunteer positions and one-year terms which begin at the Spring 2025 Members Meeting.
Please consider helping us to keep this League around for another 50 years!!!!
And finally, to celebrate our 50th anniversary, we are selling souvenir T-shirts with a commemorative logo. The logo was designed by Jose Torres and the shirts are being produced by Tod Davenport. There is a flyer available with sizes, colors and logo placement options. E-mail me for a flyer. I hope every active member will donate $20 for a shirt they can wear to promote and support our league.
MERRY XMAS!!!
HAPPY HANNUKAH!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Shoot well. Play Fair. Have fun.
Steve Duckman
LAPL President
Playoff Bracket
Welcome to week 5 of the Fall 2024 8 ball season!!!!
ALL TEAMS ARE PLAYING AT JERRY’S FAMILY BILLIARDS TONIGHT!!!!!
There will also be a table for the team that has a BYE to practice on.
ALSO!!!! from 6:30 - 8:00pm we are having the SPRING 2024 AWARDS PARTY!!!!
All league members that attend tonight will receive 1 free drink ticket and 3 free raffle tickets.
There will be lots of Papa John’s pizza and El Pollo Loco chicken and side dishes. We also have cake and raffle tickets to sell if you want more than the 3 free chances to win one or more of the Captain’s gifts that are donated each season.
We will also be advertising and taking pre registrations for our Leagues 50th anniversary tournament weekend in December. A poster for the event will be at the Awards party.
I hope to see as many of you as possible at 7pm for presentation of the trophies for last seasons team, fundraiser and West Coast Challenge qualifier winners.
Shoot Well. Play Fair. Have Fun.
Steve Duckman
LAPL President
