[POOL] Argonne pool league

[Craig Stacey]

I highly approve of the alternate names for obvious reasons.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 3:01 PM John Valdes <j-valdes at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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