[POOL] Argonne pool league

[John Valdes]

Hi Moe,

As he indicated in his email, Dean is looking to get the Argonne Pool
League going again in some temporary fashion, as some folks have
indicated that they'd like to start playing again.  The current
proposed format would be shortened, 7 week sessions with smaller teams
(4 members/matches per night) with matches beginning at 4PM when Q
opens so as to avoid more crowded times (particularly from the APA
league) with matches potentially spread over multiple nights.  Once
the world is back to "normal", then we'd resume our regular format.

As far as Team Moe is concerned, when last surveyed we only had 2
players willing to resume play, so to participate, Team 2 will need to
temporarily accept players from other teams and/or new players.  If
you're still interested in playing, drop me a note so I know.
Likewise, let me know if you know of anyone not currently in the
league who would be interested in playing.  I'm still planning to sit
out the league until things return to normal, so if you are interested
in playing now, also let me know if you're interested in being
temporary team captain to help coordinate/schedule team matches.

Finally, since the makeup of the team will be a bit different during
this time, I'm thinking we should also make a temporary change of team
name?  We can use one of our alternate names, either "Carl Crew" or
"Lenny and the Jets", https://comb.io/arEptV :)

John

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:00:27AM +0000, Bass, Dean Allen wrote:
> Hi all, we had a meeting of the captains on Tuesday night and have decided to do a modified league format using 4 players per team for a 7 week session.  The season we started and did not finish will be completed when we have enough players to return to the 5 man teams.  The first 7 week session will begin November 3, but we may need new team leads and to shuffle a couple of players from one team to another to make sure all teams have enough players.  We need players so anyone who knows people who would like to join, let me know and they are welcome.  We will be scheduling our matches and I would ask the team captains to take care of that.  I will be begin contacting each team to get things set up.  Most teams are pretty close to sufficient.    Please note we are requiring masks even when you are playing and encouraging people to grab the earliest slots for the fewest people in the Q meaning the lowest potential exposure.  The first 7 week session should end before Christmas and the we can evaluate where we are for January.  I’ll keep everyone posted.  - Dean