1. Financial Report
2. ADO report
3. All-stars
4. ORBC
5. Clan d’ Stein / Bulls score conflict

1. Financial Report

    Nichole presented a financial report for the beginning of the season. Notable figures were fees collected: A league Players $840, B league Players $1,680, and pub fees $850.

2. ADO Research Committee (ADORC) report

    Abel reported that as of that time he had had no responses from the league to be on the committee, his initial summary of the situation was as follows: To be a ADO sponsored league the league itself would have to pay $165 and then individual members who wanted to be ADO sanctioned would have to pay an additional $25 a head (per year nor season). Sanctioning also means the league would have to play by ADO rules which most notably means no-call cricket, also for any tournament to be sanctioned we would have to offer a $1000 fund for the winners. Should we choose to go ADO individual members who paid the fee would receive ADO rankings and winners certificates for 8T0’s, Ro9’s, and hat tricks. Major issues facing the board would be do we raise fees and make everybody join ADO or would we pay for the league and let those who wanted to join, and if we were making league members join how do we divide $25 over 2 or 3 seasons? Cliff requested a copy of the ADO information be mailed to him, as no copy was present at the meeting.

3. All-Stars

    The issue was where to have the All Stars tournament this season. Unlike last season when they were both scheduled on the same Saturday, this season the All Stars tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, March 23 for B League and for Wednesday, March 24. This means that conceivably both could be held at the same pub. The pubs in the league with enough boards to hold a tournament are: 1oo7, Britannia Arms, Poet & Patriot and Charlie O’s. Bocci’s Cellar was considered ineligible after their no-show from last season.
    After the board debated factoring in drive time, turn out, and fair distribution of the leagues business to pubs, Cliff made the motion to keep the All Stars Centralized (at Poet & 1oo7), Keith seconded. The motion passed with 4 ayes (Keith, Cliff, Abel, Nichole) and 2 nays (Charlie and Jon). Abel brought up the point that we’re more likely to get a good turn up at All Stars as opposed to singles tournament since people can show to all starts with the hope of filling in, therefore we should split the business between the two pubs. Abel also had the opinion that A Leaguers are more likely to turn up at the Poet, and it was mentioned (I didn’t mark down by who) that a greater number of B Leaguers like to drink hard alcohol with is unavailable at the Poet. Charlie then motioned that we have the A league at the poet and the B league at the 1oo7, motion passes with 6 ayes.

4. ORBC Proposed Changes

    See below, new business put first to indicate actual order of discussion.

1. Clan d’ Stein / Bulls score conflict

    On the previous Tuesday night there was an issue between these two teams, Clan d’ Stein was the home team at the Poet & Patriot, when it came time for singles, Justin Dion (captain of Clan ‘d Stein) wrote up his line up with himself playing fourth, Jason Roper (captain of the Bulls) gave him back the match up with himself playing Justin, the match commenced but when it came time for the fourth match Justin wasn’t anywhere and his name was scratched out and Dave Rector’s written in.
    At this point Charlie McClain (there as an observer for his old team) advised Jason that he could take the automatic forfeit, as was his right, or play against Dave. Jason decided to play the match, he lost 2-0. After the match Abel Romero showed up, Charlie told him what had happened and Abel told Jason it should have been an automatic forfeit with no possibility for playing but to report the score as it stood (Bulls 8, Clan 1) and the board would discuss if it should be a 9-0 or not. Jason then reported the score 9-0 with Justin’s admission of fault and agreement to the 9-0. The issue is that Jason agreed to the game and then after he lost chose to take the forfeit.
    Keith put forth that Justin was in violation of the rules of play, once the line up is made it cannot be changed without permission of other Captain, Abel put forth that by the new rules you can’t change at all. Cliff asked if Jason talked to Ayle, the co-captain, and if in Justin’s absence such a talk would be considered an agreement between captains. Nichole said something about how Jason agreed to play the game, and that Charlie advised him of his options, therefore he shouldn’t be able to switch now. Keith replied that initial misdoing was still Justin’s. Nichole asked if it was possible to somehow take away a team game but leave the singles win, as the match was 9-0 or 8-1 the answer was no.
    Cliff said that the board set precedence last season by taking away the doubles game that the captains agreed to play short handed, thus limiting the power of captains agreement during a match, and noted that it is important to make sure Justin doesn’t do this kind of thing again. In response to the precedence it was pointed out that last seasons case they were changing the format of the game, where as this case was just a matter of line up.
    Jon asked why this didn’t go through the proper channels, as Captains in B-League with a conflict they should have gone through their B-League rep.
    Cliff says we should leave it 9-0 and send out a letter telling them how they both did wrong.
    It was then discussed if the rules should contain a line captains can agree to work within the rules but can’t change format. They can change according to circumstance but cannot make drastic changes to the way the game is played.
    Laura put in that something can’t change after the fact.
    Nichole motioned we leave it 9-0 and send out a letter.
    Ayes: Nichole and Charlie
    Nays: the rest, motion fails
     Charlie finds the appropriate rule: Article III, Section G Each set, Before each set (a "set" is a team game, a doubles game, a combination of two doubles games of the same type, or the final group of four singles games) each captain shall write the names of his or her players on a score sheet in the order desired for competition, and hand said score sheet to the scorekeeper or the opposing captain. No substitution of players may be made once a list of player has been submitted unless the consent of the opposing team captain has been obtained. (In the event a team is playing shorthanded, the captain can place the forfeited games anywhere in the line up and said match will not be played.)
    Abel motion that the match go 8-1 with a letter
    Motion passes with 6 ayes (all present), Cliff with write a draft, e-mail it to the board, the Jon will send it.

4. ORBC Proposed Changes

Part 1, Official rules of play
    There is a totally new preamble that allows captains at matches to make decisions and have leeway but not to set precedence for future league play. Cliff wanted a mention in the preamble about formal protest, as another option or logical step in the process. It was decided to amend #4 in the options list to include “If a conflict can not be resolved or a resolution can not be reached. There was a motion to accept the changes presented by the ORBC in their amended form, motion passed with 6 ayes.
Part 1, Article V, Scorekeeper
    In paragraph B the proposed change limited the ability to challenge the scoring of a dart to the captains’ position, Cliff proposed we change it back to captain and participating players. In paragraph D it was decided to shorten the list of people not able to touch the dart before the score is called to a simple no one. The question arose if we still had the 5-second rule written into the rules; apparently it’s not currently in the rules but is a part of standard dart procedure. Charlie motions we accept the proposed changes with the boards amendments, motion passes with 6 ayes.
Part 1, Article VII, Protest Procedures
    The board discussed why protest power should lie with only participating captain, or even with only the captains. Nichole asked if it would ever be or possible to file a protest against your own captain? We discussed personal misconduct protests and the power of the player and then the board sent this section back to the ORBC.
Part 1, Article VIII, Final Standings
    This proposed change was adopted with out change, Charlie moved we approve and motion passes with 6 ayes.
Part 1, Article IX, Tournaments
    The board decided that any prize monies should be called referred to as a portion of the contributions instead of the a portion of the proceeds from contributions since proceeds makes it sound like the league is making money. The proposed changes also made buy-in’s completely optional, Cliff pointed out that this makes it extremely hard to determine how the monies are distributed if one member of a blind draw doubled team paid and the other didn’t. The section was sent back to committee.
Part 1, Article X, Awards
    This proposed change was adopted with out change, Charlie moved we approve and motion passes with 6 ayes.
Part 2, Article V, Dues and Fees
    The only modification to this proposal was that in paragraph E the way the penalties for playing an ineligible player are set up does not necessitate the need to see a game score sheet, so requiring the captain to turn one in is redundant. Charlie moved we approve and motion passes with 6 ayes.

It was asked that every one read Part 2 Article XII Amendments before next meeting.

1. All-stars results
2. ADORC report
3. More ORBC!