WeNuts Newsletter

                                                                                    January 25, 2012
Hi my nutty buddies: 

Wow!!!! This has been a very busy time for the staff at WeNuts. We are really working hard to find and fix problems in the league. Some of the staff has been having problems with computers and we are struggling to keep the tours coming. God bless Elf and Water for their coordinating efforts and hard work!!!!!!!

One of the most common complaints that we hear is that some of our members are so good that some players do not see any reason to play in tours with them. We are feverishly looking at ways to level the playing field from time to time so all will have a chance to win. This will be a major topic for the staff to discuss in our TD meeting on Monday. If you have any suggestions, please let any member of the staff know.

On Monday, January 30 starting at 7:00 am, Elf will hold her “Almost 3000th Tournament” This will be special tours throughout the morning tournament times. The games will be as follows:

ONE BALL
1. Players will throw one ball per frame, any player who throws 2 balls will be disqualified for that round.
2. If both players throw a second ball the first one to do so is disqualified and the opponent wins. On frame 10 you play the whole frame. In other words, you roll the ball up to 3 times.

NO STRIKE TOURNAMENT
1. Members will be paired and play each round by the regular Swiss System. However, If a player gets a strike, they must call it out and the td will deduct 10 pins from the score.
2. If a member fails to call out a strike, they forfeit the game.
3. At the conclusion of the round, the player reports their score and number of strikes for deduction. The TD will record and determine winner of pair for the round.
4. After winners are determined, they advance to the next round, until a winner is determined.

SPARES COUNT
The tour is a regular swiss pairs tour only the highest score is not necessarily the winner. Each opponent counts and calls out the number of spares they make during the game. The highest number of spares (10 max) is the winner. If both opponents make the same number of spares, then the high score counts.

HANDICAP TOURNAMENT
The Td will check each player’s skill level at the beginning of the tournament. A handicap will be given based this number. (This handicap will be the same throughout this tournament) At the end of the game, the handicap will be added in and winners determined.
Handicaps will be determined as follows:
Skill Level Handicap
1300 – 1399 +25
1400 – 1499 +20
1500 – 1599 +15
1600 – 1699 +10
1700 – 1799 -15
1800 + -20

BIRTHDAYS…. It has come to our attention, many of your birthdays are not included in our birthday list (accessed from a button on our home page). Please check to see if yours is there and if not please email it to Elfinhiding@aol.com. You don’t have to include the year, month and day are all that is necessary. Thanks!!!

The player that I have chosen to highlight in this issue of the newsletter is our own slamminsam. We all know and love sam. He's even won a Player of the Quarter in the past, but I've got even more information that I've found on the internet so we can all truly know him.

The biggest secret that sam is hiding is that his parents are rather unique. Rather than being born as most people are, sam was create thru the strange relationship of Dr. Seuss and Horton, who kept hearing a who. His birth name of course was Sam I Am. However, as life continued, sam found himself confused. As the family grew and Dr. Seuss' books became more acclaimed, he kept hearing people talking about him and things he wasn't doing well or not at all. He felt that he was giving all that he had to give, but yet people everywhere were wanting more. Apparently the general population of the world felt that he should clothe, feed and shelter him, especially in times of disasters. Sam's financial standing was okay, but there was no way he could handle all things to the entire world. He even wondered, if he was related to the whole world, why his family never practiced birth control or self control. He began to wonder if he would ever stop hearing the crowds call out for him. It was nearly impossible for sam to get any sleep. "Uncle Sam! Uncle Sam!!!" the world would cry continually.

Finally, Horton sat on Sam's house to try to help sam. Oh, my, how Horton laughed when he heard sam's complaints. "You are Sam I Am, not Uncle Sam!" he exclaimed. "You do not have to take care of everybody!" Together, they worked through all those worries that Sam had. Sam was soooooooo relieved, but felt that the best thing would be to change his name. However, so many of his own family knew him as sam, he knew he should keep sam in his name. Therefore, our own beloved slamminsam was created!!!!! And now you know the rest of the story.    See you at the lanes.

Love, 
Jan (mikesdream_)
Head Admin