Cleveland Crokinole League Update & News

[James Gress]

Hi All,

This is your reminder that we WILL NOT be playing at Schnitzel Ale Brewery this coming Monday 5/26/25 due to the Memorial Day holiday.  

Our next league night and casual play meet-up will be Monday 6/9/25.

Attached is the updated Schedule and Standing document for the 2025 Spring Singles League.  As you’ll see, we have several make up matches to be played in addition to our scheduled matches.  If we can’t get those all played, we can extend league play to our 6/23/25 meet up.

When league play is concluded, we can choose to recognize a champ and rankings and end it there or, if there’s interest, we can use the rankings to seed some sort of quick tournament bracket.  We can discuss that on June 9th.

We also need to discuss or decide what to do when the league is concluded and your input is welcome.  Some options are:

• Return to casual play twice a month
• Try an autumn doubles league.  The “season” would be shorter because we’d have roughly half as many matches to play.  Teams could be drawn at random, or we could use the league rankings to try to assign “balanced” teams.
• Do a one-night mini tournament each month
• Other ideas?

A couple other things….

Is there any interest in a summer picnic-style gathering - perhaps in early August?  I’ll offer to host at my house if there’s interest.

We’ll work toward organizing our annual Holiday Singles tournament for 2025 with a tentative date of Saturday 12/13/25.

Have a safe and relaxing holiday weekend!  

Jim Gress

440-668-0865

[Rob Richardson]

Hello!

First things first:  I will not be at our next club gathering.  I will have to play makeup matches on 6/23.

I would like to have our current rankings be used to seed a mini-tournament.  

A doubles league would be fun, I think.  I don't think pure random pairings would work because a team like Jim and me would be too powerful.  Some kind of arrangement for balanced pairings would be needed.

I'd like to try St. Jacobs doubles some time.  That's a tournament with eight players and seven four-game rounds.  Each player keeps their own score sheet.  After each round, players change partners, so that every person has one round with every other person as a partner.  It can be played with seven, eight or nine people.  (I don't know how the nine-person version works, but I think I read that it's possible.)  One web site I saw talking about this format said it takes about 2 1/2 hours to complete.  If we did that at Schnitz, we would probably have to start at about 7 to get organized.  That's a fair bit earlier than we've been starting lately.  Here's Jeremy Tracey explaining the St. Jacobs format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc2kd88UbHk

(I just found a YouTube page that shows several other possibilities for mixing up play.  It's just video and music, no narration, but it's interesting: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcln_-dtvBYs_6AZTwaHd9jwtOqL9NIk)

When I first learned that good Crokinole boards and good Crokinole players existed about four years ago, and started watching videos of the big boys in action, I began learning that there is more to the game than just flicking disks at your opponent's disks.  This is especially true in doubles.  Perhaps some educational programs might be fun, in which one of our better players talks about the strategy of the game.  

(At a preliminary gathering before this past US Open doubles tournament, I was sitting at a table with Jeremy Tracey.  He give me an excellent one-sentence summary of doubles strategy.  He said, "My mission in life is to make life hell for the player on my left."  Unfortunately, I was on his left.)

I am interested in a summer gathering.  I know I'll be itching to play all summer.  

RobR

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