NAPA of KC

Congratulations to The Experienced Ones for winning playoffs.
Runner-up Shot Takers.
3rd/4th Just Here/Ball Bangerz

Next session starts Jan 6th at 7pm

$8 per player, Sundays at Side Pockets Blue Springs. Starts in less than 2 weeks, get your team signed up now.

Congratulations to Dirty Mike and the Boyz for first place. Incredibles finished second in monday night Astros in house league.

This is great news!!! Anyone can qualify for Nationals!!!
NAPA Players,
I HAVE SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!
For this year's team event, the first place team is guaranteed $5,000 in prize money. This is very exciting and we look forward to more teams getting reststered by the June 12th deadline. Be sure to tell all your players! Guaranteed $5,000 for only a maximum 5-man roster is awesome!
I have more good news.
For this year's NAPA Nationals we have encountered some very unusual circumstances that have enabled NAPA HQ to rethink how our qualifications for the NAPA Nationals are handled. Over the years, we have taken pride in providing a structured qualification format, that requires our players to achieve certain criteria in order to participate in our national event.
While, this structure has had some competitive benefits and creates excitement, it has also had its downfalls. Many players are unable to qualify due to any number of personal pitfalls, like loss of job, or change in job schedules, personal tragedies, etc; Yet, these people who are unable to qualify and are left out of our national event while their friends and family go have fun and attend without them, are still pool enthusiasts and ONLY play the game for their love of the sport. For thousands of our pool players, it's not about being a pro player or a Grandmaster. It's about the love of the competition and their enthusiasm and love for the camaraderie of the sport.
After some very detailed, in-depth thought, NAPA HQ and our team have decided to make a change to our nationals qualifications, and we are going to put that change in effect today.
Per existing qualifying criteria, a player with a minimum of 5-matches between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2017 can only qualify by being a top point shooter, a team captain, or on a championship team. This is where the challenge comes in. This is simply not possible for a lot of players due to time, personal circumstances, job schedules, playing ability, etc;
We need to fix this and give everyone the ability to qualify.
Beginning today, ANY player who has 5-matches played in our calendar year (June 1-May 31), automatically qualifies for the NAPA nationals. That includes this year, for the upcoming 2017 NAPA Nationals.
NAPA HQ has had years of practice and dedicated analysis fine tuning our skill level application and player analyzer. We are confident it is the best in the business and can continue to maintain a quality annual championship with this new qualification format.
Team Captain's, Top Point Shooters, and All Players on Championship teams from now on will receive certificates of achievements. We are also planning to add some added incentives to teams for the 2018 team championships as well.
Today, we have qualified ALL of your players who have had 5 or more matches played in the NAPA Calendar year. The 5-matches played criteria is per format. So, in order for a player to qualify in 8-ball, he/she must have 5-matches played in 8-ball. If he/she wants to play in 9-ball, he/she must have 5-matches played in 9-ball. If he/she wants to play in 10-ball, he/she must have 5-matches played in 10-ball.
Keeping the 5-matches played per format will keep the skill levels more honest.
All of the newly qualified players are now able to simply go to the Nationals registration page and it will let them know which tournaments they qualify for. Please let all of your players know that the gates are open for this year's event and it's come one, come all.
THIS APPLIES TO ALL OF YOUR JUNIORS AS WELL.
5-matches played allows them to qualify for the adult events as well.
As far as the team event goes, your players now only have to have 10 NRP points instead of 15.
We look forward to seeing much larger turnouts and much larger prize funds.

Congratulations to Leland Deering for winning 8 ball playoffs. Joel Branstetter 2nd, Chris Hultman 3rd/4th and Chris Putthoff 3rd/4th.

Laggers choice playoffs next monday. Stay tuned

Signing players up for Thursday night 9 ball and Sunday night 8 ball singles at Empire in Lawrence. Lots of fun and a chance to qualify for nationals. Contact me or Chris Putthoff for more info or to sign up!

Congratulations to Sunday 8 ball singles playoff winners.

1st Chris Putthoff
2nd Kris Bailey
3rd/4th Dewey
3rd/4th Jimmy Rodgers
5th/6th Brian Stidman
5th/6th Rob Dover

Congratulations to Courtney Hultman for winning monday night 8 ball singles. Chris Hultman runner-up, Chris Putthoff and Joel Branstetter 3rd/4th.

Congratulations to Monica Dibben and Ed Meyer for their 1st and 2nd place finish on Thursday night 9 ball singles at Empire!

We are still looking for some singles players for Side Pockets in Blue Springs on Mondays. It is double play 8 and 9 ball. It should be a short summer session but lots of fun and pays well. You could also qualify for nationals next year! Sign up by Friday if you are interested.

Thursday night Stars and Stripes 8 ball playoff winners