PRE SEASON SEASON 3 WEEEEEE!

Welcome to another WPC season! Also welcome to Sports Scene! This season has been more popular than ever and it will consist of 14 strong teams. Some making there debut in WPC, and others making there comeback to inter leagues after a long absence. What is different this season to the other two seasons? The tourneys are different for a start, there will be a mixture of 1v1 which will be rank tourneys, 2v2 random partners, 2v2 non mixed and 3v3 events once a week it will be one of them four tourneys where again like last season there will be a scoring system for the tour. Tourneys are played in patience every Friday at 5 o’clock.

Now onto a few rule changes, A new rule as far as coaching is concerned this season where the captain may coach the player sitting at the table, no one else just the captain, if anyone else does it they will be disqualified. You have been warned!

This is still 6v6 and if tied the points will be shared. The top 4 from each division of 7 will progress to the playoffs and as it’s a 12 week season you will need 3 games to be eligible for the playoffs which will be on camtasia.

There will be a ref and an admin on duty this year, the admins will take a back seat and will only get involved if asked by the ref. What the ref says will usually stand unless in extreme circumstances.

Ok I got that lot sorted now onto the main bit, let’s look at the teams!

There are two conferences this season of 7 teams, Eastern Conference and Western Conference. Let’s look at the Eastern Conference first.

Teams that are in the Eastern Conference are as follows:
Devine Cues (DC)
Greatest Pool Competitors (GPC)
Latino Pool Legends (LPL)
PoolCuez (PCZ)
PoolFiction (PFN)
Pure Skillz (PS)
Sexy Poolerz (SP)

This is a very tough Eastern conference where I would say all but one team could have a shot at the playoff top 4 here. In LPL and PFN you have the winner and runners up in the same conference and they must go well lets look individually at each team in the Eastern Conference.

Devine Cuez
Captain – Nealjess
Last Season – Semi Finals lost to PFN
Prediction – 5th Place

Well DC got to the semi finals last season after some great early showings in WPC season 2; however they lost there way at the end as the league went through a rocky time where they lost players and ended up not having enough eligible players to give PFN a challenge. What will they do this season? Well with Jeanna in there team and with Eric(real_fkin_deal) and Kelly (sexxxy_fatality) back DC will have a good season under there captain Neal I however see them just missing out on the playoffs here.

Greatest Pool Competitors
Captain – GPC_ownz_you
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – May surprise one or two teams but essentially will finish last with such a tough draw 7th Place

GPC, some people will say GPWHO? Well this is a very solid well organized team with sexy.banker I would say is there best player. I am only going on what I have seen in PRO but she looks good and GPC have looked good and will definitely pick up a win or two.

Latino Pool Legends
Captian – Tino/Player_dude
Last Season – Champions
Prediction – 3rd Place

LPL are the reigning champions and will no doubt be right there in the mix at the end of the season. I can see them just doing enough to scrape into the playoffs where they will no doubt play there A game again. Last season’s Playoff MVP Player_dude will no doubt lead from the front and Korban will also add that firepower in the middle of the order again. I see LPL really going for it in WPC season 3 and although they will finish third in the group I expect them to be near the WPC World Cup finals again.

PoolCuez
Captain – Danielle
Last season – N/A
Prediction – 4th Place

Well when I heard that PCZ was getting pommy I was shocked, it is a massive coup for them and no doubt will add to the already strong line up Danielle has for WPC season 3. PCZ also have the shock of Pro at the moment in Perry and Steven will also beat most players put in front of him. In all I see PCZ flying this season and grabbing that last playoff spot just ahead of DC.

PoolFiction (PFN)
Captain – Kev
Last Season – Runners up
Prediction – 1st Place

I really don’t know how in the two seasons of WPC PFN have not won this yet. In season 1 MP beat them and in season 2 LPL beat them. PFN have added lewis (ll_ewis) from DC which I feel will push them onto possibly winning this seasons WPC. They will be there for sure with the likes of cubby, Jamie, Ogges and JJ this will surely be a season of joy for PFN.

Pure Skillz
Captain – Dan
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 6th Place

Welcome to WPC pure skillz! Led by Dan, he will need to draw on all his captaining experience to get these into the playoffs, BUT it is not out of the question. Paul (sleepyman) is extremely talented and although they don’t have anyone signed up yet on the ladder I see a very successful season for PS although they wont reach the playoffs this will be a stepping stone for WPC season 4 where I feel they will make a great challenge.

Sexy Poolerz
Captain – Ross
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 2nd Place

Welcome back to WPC SP, This team was smokin’ hot back in season 1 where they were lying top at 4-0 when they just pulled out! Will they do that this time? HELL NO as they have a stacked team with the old members from season one and the players from the UP team that now play at SP. Soothing affect if played can be great on the day. Arron, Ste, Pool chicky and danny all can show there worth here and command a high seeded playoff spot alongside PFN. How will Ross do this season only time will tell.

So you have the Western Conference now for the Eastern Conference where it is WIDE open and probably not as strong as the Western Conference.

Teams in the Western Conference are as follows:
Cuemasters (CM)
Dead Strokes (DS)
Freedom (FR)
High-Timez (HT)
Lucky Shots (LS)
Magic Pool (MP)
Straight Shots (SS)

Out of all these Teams only two teams was in this competition last season so this is a prediction into the unknown!

Cuemasters
Captain – Lisa
Last Season N/A
Prediction – 7th Place

Welcome to another new team in WPC and CM have a tough job here. Lisa still needs to get them signed up but annie is already signed up and is a very good player so watch for annie this season getting a few wins on the board!

Dead Strokes
Captain – Rick
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 4th Place

Dead Strokes are going to be a factor this season in WPC, Welcome to WPC and I hope you enjoy it, Rick will get quite a team here with Roy and JD probably playing a big role this season. WPC looks good for DS as they are in the ‘weaker’ of the Conferences and for that reason and the fact DS are a pretty solid side I will go for the playoffs for these guys. Watch out for scotty_who he is class!

Freedom
Captain – Ashley
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 3rd Place

Welcome to WPC petey and Ashley. FR must have a chance with the likes of petey and adambuddy going and I see a very successful season for them here as long as they can show with 6 every week they have a chance of making it far in the playoffs. If so then you would have to fancy them possibly going all the way.

High-Timez
Captain – l3ad_boy
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 6th Place

Welcome to WPC High-Timez and we hope you have a fun time. This team will shock people this season and have a lot of players signed up for WPC. I don’t know much about this league but I know they are not here to give in, in every game but they are here to try to win games and try to get to the playoffs. I don’t think they will but we will see this is yahoo pool and as everyone knows it is very unpredictable.

Lucky Shots
Captain – Bev
Last Season – Semi finals
Prediction – 1st Place

Luckyshots was so close to the finals last season and so close to the regular season championship but ultimately they lost in the final couple of matches and was left rueing what could have been. They lose petey this season he is replaced by me(Jason). Chris is a important member of LS team and he will need to be the one to help and encourage LS to victory.

Magic Pool
Captain – Jordy
Last Season – 8th of 8
Prediction – 5th Place

Well last season couldn’t have been any worse! MP was no where and need a complete change this season. But jordy is back and in form, he has got them really focussed and I feel MP having a good season but just missing out on the playoffs. Watch for Ian and Mick to play again this season and recapture the form that sees them back to there usual best.

Straight Shots
Captain – Scotty
Last Season – N/A
Prediction – 2nd Place

Welcome to WPC SS and what a season that’s in prospect for you. Scotty has got a lot of players signed up including steven.rules who is I think there best player, Scotty is good but maybe has a bit to prove and it will be interesting with me predicting 2nd in this conference how scotty will handle the captaincy I see him being a success and SS storming into the playoffs!

There you have it the pre-season predictions and what to look out for. PLZ REMEMBER THIS IS COMPETATIVE BUT WE INCLUDING THE REFS ARE ALL HERE FOR FUN AND TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. REMEMBER ON FRIDAY THE KICK OFF TOURNEY AND PLZ LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS IN THE BOX BELOW AND GL ALL TEAMS