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Our office hours are 12 noon to 9 pm. Most of your questions should be able to be answered by consulting the Team Manual, the Local League By-Laws, the American Poolplayers Association national website (poolplayers.com) or the League website (dadecounty.apaleagues.com). If your questions cannot be answered by one of the previously listed informational tools, please call Gary at 305-896-6786. If you have a situation that demands immediate attention and you cannot reach Gary at the main league phone number call Howard at 954-559-1549.
The regular weekly and playoff match fee is $35.00 per team, not $7.00 per player played. The fee is $35 every week for 8-ball matches and 9-ball matches, it does not matter how many matches are played or if there are forfeits. Other formats may have a different fee, please consult the League office for this information.
League fees can be paid in Cash or a Check written to Dade APA. If you pay your weekly fees in cash we cannot be responsible for it, if it is not received. If any check is returned for insufficient funds, the team will be responsible for the amount of the check plus a $25.00 returned check charge and loss of their bonus points. Shortages must be remitted within 7 days of the time the League Operator informs the team Captain and/or any member of the team of the shortage.
Any players $25.00 membership fee is due upon their first week of play or by the fourth week of play, which ever comes first. All unpaid players will be removed from the roster after the fourth week of play.
Any team that falls 2 weeks behind on their weekly fees will be removed from the schedule if their fees are not paid up to date. Individual team members will be required to pay their portion of the remaining session fees to return to play in the league. If a member is on another team currently playing on another night, they will be required to pay their portion of the outstanding fee to remain on their other team.
The bonus points are 2 points per week of play for 8-ball teams and 10 points per week of play for 9-balls teams. Bonus points are for:
a) Fees being paid in full and on time.
b) Picking up and returning the paperwork on time. The scoresheet envelopes must be returned by the specified time to the specified drop off locations for your division. Mailed scoresheets must be postmarked the day following your match. If we do not receive your scoresheet envelope by Saturday of the week of your play, and the postmark is not the day after your team plays it will be considered late. The League mailing address is Dade APA, 18014 S.W. 33 Ct. Miramar, FL 33029.
c) The paperwork must be done correctly. The scoresheets must be legible with accurate information and be complete.
A failure to do any one of the above will result in a loss of your bonus points. We will not accept any excuse for a late scoresheet envelope or fee shortage for any team that plays at a drop off location, even if the envelopes are picked up early. If you play at a drop off location, your envelope should be turned in that night.
A single game forfeit is 1 point in 8-ball and 15 points in 9-ball. A team can only receive their forfeit points if they have players present and are not breaking the 23-point rule with those players. A full match forfeit for a team that does not show up to play a match will be scored as a 3 – 0 match victory for the team receiving the forfeit. Both teams still owe the $35.00 weekly fee. A forfeiting team can still receive their bonus points if they pay the weekly fee and turn in their scoresheets on time.
A team receiving a scheduled bye does not owe any fees for that week. Byes will be scored as a 3 – 0 match win plus the 2 bonus points for a total 5 points for 8-ball matches. A 9-ball team receiving a bye will receive 45 points plus the 10 bonus points for a total of 55 points. Byes will not be scored until after the fourth week in order to allow for make-up matches if new teams are added to the division.
Playoffs will consist of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams in the regular season plus a wild card team. The wild card team will be picked in a blind draw from their respective division. Only teams in good standing (i.e. teams with up to date monies) that have played the entire session and are present for the wild card draw are eligible. The two highest finishing teams will be the home teams in the first round of the playoffs. The first round match-ups will be 1st vs. wild card and 2nd vs. 3rd. The 2nd round will be winner vs. winner with the highest seeded team hosting the match and loser vs. loser with the highest seeded team hosting the match.
Of the $35.00 weekly fees, a portion will be placed in the prize fund. The money in the playoff prize fund will be disbursed as follows in divisions with 6 or more teams:
a) The 1st place finisher in the playoffs will receive 40% of the division playoff prize fund.
b) The 2nd place finisher in the playoffs will receive 30% of the division playoff prize fund.
c) The 3rd place finisher in the playoffs will receive 20% of the division playoff prize fund.
d) The last 10% of the division playoff prize fund will be given to a team randomly drawn after the wild card draw of the remaining teams not already in the playoffs. Only teams in good standing (i.e. teams with up to date monies) will be eligible for this portion of the prize fund. A representative team member must be at the wildcard draw to be eligible for this prize.
For divisions with 4 or 5 teams the playoff prize fund will be disbursed as follows:
a) The 1st place finisher in the playoffs will receive 50% of the division playoff prize fund.
Playoff prize money will be paid out the first or second week of the following session depending on logistics. Playoff winners will receive trophies along with prize money once playoff winners are determined.
The playoff money payouts will be paid to the team captain or co-captain. They will be required to sign a receipt for this money. It is the team captain’s responsibility to dole out the monies among the team members. Choose your team captains wisely; they will be responsible for these payouts.
To qualify for the Local Team Championship Tournament, for the opportunity to go to National Team Championship Tournament in Las Vegas the team must be:
a) The points’ leader at the end of the session in a division of 12 or more teams or,
b) The playoff winner or,
c) If the playoff winner is already qualified, the highest non-qualified finisher in the playoffs.
The National tournament is currently held in Las Vegas at the Riviera Hotel and Casino. We will provide travel assistance for your plane tickets and double occupancy rooms, for team members only, for the duration of the tournament the team is playing in. If for some unforeseen reason, travel becomes exceptionally expensive due to gas prices, weather, or terrorism, etc. We will provide the available amount in the travel assistance fund and the team will be required to make up the difference.
No make-up matches will be allowed in the last 2 weeks of the session. If you know in advance that your team cannot attend a match notify the opposing team Captain and the League Operator to re-schedule the match. It is not in the spirit of the League to give out forfeits, if the match can be played. We do not want to give out forfeits. We will always rule in favor of playing the match.
If it’s about a player on your team have that player call the League Operator NOT the team Captain. If it’s about a player on another team, do not call, make a note on the scoresheet, your inquiry will be addressed during weekly scoresheet preparation.
If you feel that any team did not receive the correct points, call the league office and your inquiry will be researched and resolved. After 2 weeks have past all scores will be considered correct. We reserve the right to make corrections if an obvious error has occurred.
No person is eligible to play in a match unless they have paid their $25.00 annual membership fee and filled out an application. If an application is not available, make a note on the scoresheet and write their personal information on the back of the scoresheet. The information required is full legal name, address with zip code, contact phone number, date of birth and sex. You may also email the information to the league office.
The regular league start time is 7:30 p.m. for nightly league play. There is a 15-minute grace period before a forfeit may be called. The league office really wants to see the matches played on the table. Do not call at 7:46 pm and say, the opponent was one minute late, we want our forfeit. We will always rule in favor of playing the match. If there is only one player of a team there at the start time, then that player should start the match. We don’t want to ever hear that a player would not start the match because he was waiting for the rest of his team.
The league start time in not set in stone. The league office will be receptive to changes in league start times to accommodate specific divisions. A division can be run at any time day or night on any day of the week as long as there is a host location that is willing to accommodate it. A location can be any place with a pool table such as an Elks club, Moose Lodge, Condominium recreation room, private club, bar, or billiard room.
Example: A division of players, such as bartenders, nurses and anyone who may have a night time work schedule, who would like to play league in the afternoon if possible. We would do our best to accommodate all situations like this.
Matches are won and lost on the table, not in the rulebook. The team manual is your guide when it comes to the general rules of play. We will enforce the intent of the rules, not the letter of the law. We expect sportsmanship to rule the day.
League play should be continuous. Be prepared when it is your turn to put up a player. It should not take more than a couple of minutes to decide whom to play in a match. Keep the match moving.
Anytime a Hurricane Watch is in effect for Dade County the matches will remain scheduled for play. When the advisory becomes a Hurricane Warning for Dade County all scheduled matches will be canceled. The matches will be rescheduled for a later date if possible. Once the hurricane passes and the Hurricane Warning advisory is lifted, all scheduled matches will resume play as soon as host locations can accommodate them.
If we have a catastrophic hurricane, we will resume as soon as host locations are available for play.
Once both teams sign the scoresheets they are final. Be careful what you sign or you may be stuck with it.
Pocket markers for the 8-ball may be anything except chalk or obscene objects. The pocket must be marked. No agreements, expressed or implied, will be recognized by the League operators. If the 8-ball makes contact with the pocket marker it will not be loss of game unless the marker forced the ball into the pocket.
The League Operators reserve the right to add teams to any division at any time. New teams added after the start of the session will either be required to play make-up matches or be given the same points as the last place team, at the League Operators discretion.