This year we introduced a new team league that involves 8 teams of 5 players. There are7 stops that take place in various cities around the country. Each event has four encounters and is played on 5 tables. So each team member plays each member of the opposing team, they play two racks each round. There are also 5 doubles matches also of two racks. To try to keep each match down to about 2 hours, we introduced for the first time, a shot clock system. For this first year, in an effort to keep costs down we used volunteers with stop watches and had one per table. As anyone can imagine, this is not the most interesting task to give to anyone and after at least 8 hours standing or sitting by a table with shot clock in hand the volunteers are not to keen to volunteer again.