ACT Eightball Association (ACTEBA) continues to closely monitor developments surrounding the outbreak of the Noval Coronavirus COVID-19.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that events that attract a crowd of more than 500 people are banned to help contain the spread of the illness.

Events with crowds that fall below this threshold can proceed as scheduled. As no ACTEBA schedule event will attract more than 500 people, all events will continue as scheduled at this stage.

If you have recently returned from Overseas, you must self-isolate for 14 days, avoiding contact with others including playing 8 Ball.

If you have had exposure to a possible or confirmed case of COVID 19 you must self-monitor and seek medical review if you develop any symptoms.

If you are unwell with fever and cough, please seek medical advice and practice self-isolation at home until cleared.

The advice regarding COVID-19 is changing on a daily basis, please regularly follow the latest information here https://www.health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-system/novel-coronavirus-covid-19

To minimise the risks of COVID-19 spreading, please review safe hygiene practices here http://www.health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-system/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/protect-yourself

The health and safety of our Members and the community remains the priority of ACTEBA. We will follow any advice provided by relevant authorities, which at this stage is that all events under 500 may proceed.

The position of ACTEBA may change at short notice as professional advice comes available. All correspondences will be posted on the ACTEBA page, our website and via the captains mailing list.

ACTEBA encourages players not to shake hands, use hand sanitisers which are available at venues and practice good self hygiene as described via above link. As also indicated in above information, please do not attend any ACTEBA events if you are sick or showing symptoms.

When and if the situations changes we will update members, and if the advice is for all events to not proceed, It is likely that events will be cancelled and not postponed (including current events) as this is not just a short term pandemic based on expert opinions.

If you have any questions regarding this advice or the status of events, see the below contact details

pres@acteba.com.au

sec@acteba.com.au

Venue: Harmonie German Club
Date: Saturday, March 28th
Start Time: 5th, 4th, 3rd division at 2.30pm. 2nd, 1st division at 6pm.
Initial Teams: Download as PDF
Series Score: 0-0, Southern Guns won last year

Players can expect to be contacted by Graham O’Connell to confirm your position and availability to play, or you can comment or private message him from the post on facebook.

We are looking for whole side captains for this match to assist with getting each of the sessions underway. If you are interested or if you will be at the club for the two starting sessions please let Graham know.

For any general enquiries about the event please contact Graham on atd@acteba.com.au

The top ranked player in each team will be designated captain on the day to organise team order and substitutions, unless they organise with another player on the team to be the divisional captain.

I believe there will be an official announcement regarding COVID-19 at some stage. If that affects whether or not this event will go ahead I will contact all those involved. For now the event is progressing as planned and I would encourage players to maintain high levels of hygiene and to washing and sanitise hands regularly.

Hi Everyone.

A reminder that all team fees are due before tonight’s matches. In the event that a player’s fees have not been paid before tonight’s match then that player will be disabled and you will not be able to select them in poolstat.

Note that there is some human error possible in my determination, so if I have made an error I apologise for that upfront, but would rather make an error and ensure someone has paid rather than not.

CLARIFICATION
There are a number of by-laws dealing with fees and forfeits. 14, 15, and 18. These three by-laws sort of contradict each other so we want to be clear on our stance. We will not forfeit frames that have been played in the first half of the season if a player does not pay their fees on time. That player will become ineligible to play any future frames until they have paid. This is consistent with how the weekly tournament has been run in the past and the core has noted that there is a task to clean up these three by-laws.

OUTSTANDING FEES
I have attempted to contact the players who I currently have listed as not paid their fees, however note that I haven’t been able to contact everyone.

I don’t want to call out any individual names so I have listed teams below, if captains are curious please reach out and I can provide further information.

1x The Firey Shooters
1x Screamers
1x Buffalos
2x Gringos
1x Crackpots
1x DV8’s
1x Felt Rippers
1x Budgie Smugglers
8x Rucoons
3x Team Lish
1x Hurricanes

Morning All!

Please see the 2020 Summer Captains Pack on the website here: https://acteba.com.au/wp/?page_id=9336

and some notes on some specific items below.

Next Season

Poolstat PINs will be sent to Captains and Vice Captains over the coming week.

All captains should ensure their venues are aware the season is starting, and provide them with a copy of the relevant draws so they know when to expect players to show up.

If you have any questions or notice any errors, please feel free to contact Graham O’Connell or Ian Stanley.

The Draw
Note that there have been significant scheduling challenges so it has been made as fair as possible but the draw will not exactly resemble what has occurred in the past for some teams (1 home and 1 away game against each team in your division).

For example, you may find that you play the same team at home twice, or away twice this season. However, except for a small number of teams, when combined with all of your other matches you will have the same number of home games as away games.

We expect to get a lot of feedback about this draw however please note that significant discussion and iterations have already taken place to get it to this point which we believe is as fair as possible, so with that taken into account, please still feel free to send through any feedback or thoughts.

Team Gradings
Another item that may cause significant discussion is how we have come up with the team gradings. Basically, this is the process that was followed:
1. Rename all divisions up one (Div 1 becomes Super League, Div 2 becomes Div 1, etc)
2. Apply bye-laws to promote and relegate teams, this was as per normal for all divisions except Super League where we relegated 4 teams to Div 1.
3. Specifically related to Super League, it is a coincidence that the top 4 teams from last season’s div 1 have remained in Super League. As per the Super League proposal the selection was the top 2 from last season’s div 1 followed by the next 2 highest ranked teams for the inaugural season, after the inaugural season it will follow the same promotion / relegation system as other divisions.

Thanks, and play well!

Graham and Ian
Tournament Directors