Baton Rouge APA's FREE Team Captain's Challenge

March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Baton Rouge APA's FREE Team Captain's Challenge

March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM

The 2025 Baton Rouge APA Team Captain's Challenge will take place June 21, 2025.

This is our annual free event for our team captain's in which we will again award two FREE $3,000 trips to Vegas to compete in the August 2025 World Pool Championships Team Captain's event at the Westgate Hotel and Casino!

Registration will open May 1, 2025!

The details:

Entry Fee: FREE
3 players per team. The total of the skill levels of the 3 players fielded in any team match cannot exceed 15.
● A player’s highest skill level between formats (8-Ball & 9-Ball) must be used towards the 15-Rule.
o Skill levels more than two years old will not be used in this event. Skill levels and scores must be current to be
applicable.
o Skill level 8/9s will count as 7s in this tournament.
● Only one player of skill level 6 or higher, sometimes referred to as a senior skill level player, may play in any given match.
● Players may only participate on one team.
● Players must be from the Baton Rouge league area.
● Alternate between 8-Ball & 9-Ball racks, starting with 8-Ball. Each individual rack is worth one team point.
● Games Must Win chart will be used.
● Players must have at least twenty (20) 8-Ball League match scores or twenty (20) 9-Ball League match scores within the last two
(2) years by the entry deadline of June 30, 2025. A combination of scores from the two formats is not allowed.
● Players must have completed two (2) sessions as a Team Captain of a standard 8-Ball, 9-Ball, or Ladies team in the 2024/2025
League year in the area the team represents. Teams must be in separate sessions. Players are not allowed to captain two teams
in the same session and still be eligible for this event.
● Players must have played at least four (4) times in the Spring Session in the League area the team represents. Matches played
can be in either the standard 8-Ball, 9-Ball or Ladies formats.
● Players must be on an active (Summer Session) APA roster.

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