[FSPA] Carpool Winter/Spring season - Pre-registration is live

[Joe P. Said]

Ive always thought the venue can afford (and would welcome) paying the $1.
With another league I even asked them to pay $100 a season. Incentives to
give the players is excellent.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 10:12 PM Kevin Stone <pinball at kevinsplanet.com>
wrote:

> We’re considering the same for our tournaments at Carpool and Mustang
> Sally.  As operators it makes more sense.  For a stand-alone TD I would say
> no.  Matter of fact, Josh Alber was paying the MSB tourney dues to IFPA
> until I won and asked him if he took out the money for IFPA and he said he
> just pays it.  I paid it for him out of my winnings and told him he
> shouldn’t have to pay out of his own pocket, so now we’re looking to do
> that.  Forgot about tonight’s tourney but will discuss it with him soon.
>
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> *From:* Joe P. Said <jsaid12 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:10 PM
> *To:* FSPA main discussion list <fspa at fspazone.org>
> *Cc:* Kevin Stone <pinball at kevinsplanet.com>; kevin at fspazone.org
> *Subject:* Re: [FSPA] Carpool Winter/Spring season - Pre-registration is
> live
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> Great financial components that we’ll try and follow at Spinners by at
> least paying the IFPA $1.
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:18 PM Kevin Stone via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
>
> Good evening current, former and hopefully new Carpool league players,
>
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>
> Pre-registration has begun for the winter/spring season at Carpool.  We
> play on Monday nights at 8pm (check-ins at 7:45pm).  Dues are $40 / person
> for the 10-week season.  Week 0 is on January 30th and Week 1 is on
> February 6th.
>
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>
> *Please pre-register *if you plan on playing as it will help with setting
> up week 1 and getting started by 8:30pm.  Week 1 always takes a while due
> to manual setup and positioning of players with the inevitable walk-ins we
> get.  We’ll send out a reminder email to those that have registered a few
> days before.
>
>
>
> *Pre-register here*: http://fspa.league.papa.org/eventRegistration/118
> (if you get a warning about an insecure site, just click proceed with the
> non-https version – no financial transactions going on).
>
>
>
> *Changes for this season*
>
> The operators (Rich and Kevin) will be paying the IFPA dues of $1/person,
> which previously came from the league dues.  We’re also going to put games
> on free play during finals (including warmup).  The kitty will remain to
> make it fair to players coin-drop when free games exist on a game, but all
> those proceeds will go into the prize pool.  Between the IFPA dues and
> kitty, we expect the overall prize pool to increase by $150-200 depending
> on how many players are in the Spring season.
>
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> Carpool has also agreed to provide a $20 and $10 gift certificate each
> week.  We’ll award these to the players with the highest point totals each
> week and give them out the following week.  We’ll figure out a tie-breaker
> method.  Remember that this isn’t geared to the division A or B players but
> all players since anyone can rock their group at any time.  Pre-plays will
> not be eligible for gift certificates, and we may also limit the number a
> player can win each season.  More details will be worked out once I do an
> analysis on all previous season points / player / week.
>
>
>
> Looking forward to a great season and year at CarPool.
>
>
>
> Kevin
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