[POOL] The situation with the table.

[Roger Sersted]

The X-Cue-Ses table is their table for practice.

The league practice table is a first-come-first-serve table.  You 
sign-up on the white board and wait your turn.  If you win, you stay on 
the table.  If you lose, you put a $1 in the can and walk away or 
sign-up again.


Roger S.


John Valdes wrote:
> I'm fine with the plan.  Out of curiosity, what do the other teams do?
> Also, what are the league's practice and X-Cue-Ses table used for?
> 
> John
> 
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:14:23PM -0500, Brian R. Toonen wrote:
> 
>>I think we have other options if this falls through.  I suspect that if we
>>talk with the owner, we can work out a flat rate or a charge per person.  We
>>could also offer to give up our free drink ticket in exchange for a
>>discount.  That would benefit them twice since they wouldn't be giving us
>>free drinks and we would be purchasing more expensive drinks in their place.
>>
>>--brian
>>
>>|-----Original Message-----
>>|From: owner-mcs-pool at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-mcs-pool at mcs.anl.gov] On
>>|Behalf Of Roger Sersted
>>|Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 15:05
>>|To: mcs-pool at mcs.anl.gov
>>|Subject: Re: [POOL] The situation with the table.
>>|
>>|
>>|It sounds like a good idea.  But, I think the overflow table has helped
>>|enough to be worth it.  Typically, the latest I've stayed was around
>>|10:30-11pm.  Before the overflow table, leaving at 11:30-midnight was
>>|not that unusual, IIRC.  They've also been using the league practice
>>|table on occassion.
>>|
>>|I guess what you're saying is this, "If the league doesn't give-up the
>>|overflow table, we end-up paying a full rate for our table."  Is that
>>|correct?
>>|
>>|Roger S.
>>|
>>|Craig Stacey wrote:
>>|> Spoke to Kevin last week about our getting a practice table at league
>>|> rate ($15/week) some more.  Here's the deal:
>>|>
>>|> - The pool hall wants to keep two tables open.  The league gets 7
>>|> tables (of 9) right now.  4 Match tables, one practice table, 1 table
>>|> for X-Cue-Ses, and one table used for overflow matches.
>>|> - The overflow table hasn't appreciably changed the problem it was
>>|> designed to fix.
>>|>
>>|> So Kevin will be putting a questionnaire in the envelopes tonight  about
>>|> what to do about the table.  Namely keep it for the purpose it  has, or
>>|> free up $15/week for prizes and stop using it as an  overflow.  If the
>>|> second option is what people choose, the table will  be ours for
>>|> $15/week under the following conditions:
>>|>
>>|> 1. We're committed to renting it every night.  Whether we use it or not.
>>|> 2. If a night is particularly bad, we have to give it up for  matches.
>>|> We will not pay on those nights.
>>|>
>>|> Sounds fair to me.
>>|>
>>
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