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Things got VERY interesting in the 8th week of Season 12, here are some of the major storylines:

ONE LESS ZERO

Lucky Shots knocked off Pool Fiction on Wednesday night, 5-2. LS's the.bawbag got the clinch for last season's National League Semi-Finalists, as they look to make yet another Wildcard run and perhaps gear up for another trip to the NL Semis & beyond. With the upset, Lucky Shots now sits at 3-5, one game behind Elite Pool Legendz & Magic Pool for not only 5th, but also FOURTH. For Lucky Shots next week, it's a showdown with that Magic Pool team, with EPL the following week. Pool Fiction battles Dream Pool next week for #1 in the NL, thanks not only to LS's win, but also Dream Pool's ass-whooping of Break And Run, effectively ending BNR's season. Only one zero remains (and no we won't be counting 10s,) and that's Wasted Shotz, 0-8 now after taking over 8 Ball Joke's 0-for-everything record midway into the season.

HAPPY TRAILS... AGAIN

I don't know who has quit more times over the history of MLP; Me, Moe, or Pool Pals. Regardless, Pool Pals have once again left MLP, supposedly, after EPL beat them 5-2 Monday night. The first to reap the benefits of their departure? Tourney Pool, unless somebody replaces PP. So pencil Tourney Pool in at 6-3 for now, just a game out of 2nd place by the end of Week 9. Oh by the way, they get a rematch with Pool Fiction for their next real match in Week 10. Before quitting, Pool Pals had started 0-4 before picking up a win over Lucky Shots. Pool Pals departs with a 1-7 record, and a mere 20 wins on the season, one more than Break And Run at the moment for the 2nd worst record in the NL. Last time Pool Pals quit, however, it was only a 45-minute hiatus. So, who knows?

DEVINE INTERVENTION

So the Sports Center jinx hit not only Devine Cuez hotshot eng.ishman, who lost his first game this season (now 7-1,) but apparently the entire Devine Cuez team suffered. Coming into the week at 4-3 and battling Cheap Shotz for the #4 spot in the American League, DC looked like they would just run a line right through Pool Loverz on route to more serious threats to their record. Well... Not so much. Trailing 0-2, Pool Loverz, who had just picked up win #1 last week against Wasted Shotz, rallied to take a 3-2 lead, capped off by PZ Captain & MLP Admin Lenny winning game 5 over lackin_skillz. Well, after Game 6, when real_fkin_deal saved it for DC, Pool Loverz was lackin_playerz. They had to forfeit the final game of the match, and Devine Cuez gladly took their 4-3 win and quickly exited You Got Lucky, stage right. A fitting name for the room in which the match was played, no? Cheap Shotz did beat United Pool the following night, 4-3, when Ant defeated Ketan in Game 7. So both leagues, DC and CZ, now sit at 5-3 in a tie for 4th place. United Pool has lost 2 in a row to drop to 6-2, True Pool Legends also sit at 6-2. As far as head-to-head records between the tied leagues: United Pool holds #2 via tiebreaker, beating TPL 4-3 earlier in the season. By the way, they play each other next week. Between Devine Cuez and Cheap Shotz... You may remember, Devine Cuez put a big ol' mushroom stamp on Cheap Shotz in round 1 of their home-and-home battle, 6-1. Next week, DC takes on #1 Pool Legends. Cheap Shotz gets a suddenly dangerous Pool Loverz team.

BIG LEAGUE DOMINANCE

I bet you thought Miz's run a couple seasons ago was something special in terms of the MLP Big League Tour. Luis has already passed Miz's mark of 4 tourneys in a season, and still has many more to go. What's so significant, though, about the Big League Tour? Let's examine. In a given week, you have to win anywhere from 5-7 games in a row. Now, one may think it's pretty easy if you catch fire somewhere and go on a streak. While that's true, it can't be used to describe what Luis has done. Lulu has done it multiple times in the 1v1 Tour on Sundays, but also won the most recent 2v2 Tour at the end of August. In August ALONE he won 4 Big League Tours. What we're seeing is quite possibly the most dominant performance by any one player in any form, in MLP history. Luis has also withdrawn from the ladder before, erasing his total stats from previous seasons. Yet still, in the Hall of Fame, he sits only 3 behind Miz in Tourneys Won.

Week #9 is just around the corner. Things have become very interesting in both Conferences. Previews will come over the weekend.