We have 30 entries for this year’s Yorkshire Billiards Championship to be held at the Northern Snooker Centre on Sunday 9th February.

As last year players are requested to bring a set of Billiard balls if possible.

The field will be split into 8 groups, 6×4 and 2×3. With the 8 group winners qualifying for the quarter-finals.

Group matches will be 60 minutes, the QF’s and SF’s 75 minutes and the final 90 minutes.

The anticipated timings are as follows-

10:00-11:00 1st round of group matches.

11:15 -12:15 2nd round of group matches.

12:30-13:30 3rd round of group matches.

13:30-14:15 Break.

14:15-15:30. Quarter Finals.

15:45-17:00 . Semi-Finals

17:15-18:45 Final.

The make-up of the groups is as follows-

Group 1. Kyle Cunningham. Tom Middleton. Simon Coyne. Lee Connor

Group 2. Peter Atkinson. John Marwood. John Bedford. Terry Singleton.

Group 3.  Ron Bickerdike. Tony Brown. Chris Jarvis.

Group 4. Simon Kippax. Paul Shore. Mark Hirst. Steve Nicholson.

Group 5. Simon Snee. Robert Ledger. Bob Patterson. Andrew Blamire.

Group 6. Jonathan Snee. James Waterfall. Stephen Kershaw. Sajjad Ghazan.

Group 7. Darren Kell. Tom Halliday. Gerry Garland.

Group 8. Brian Barnett. Phil Stocks. Adam Clarke. Richard Bowes.

1. Number of wins

2. Points difference

3. Points scored.

Winner G1 V Winner G2

Winner G3 V Winner G4

Winner G5 V Winner G6

Winner G7 V Winner G8

A reminder that Dress Code applies. No Jeans, trainers or collarless T-shirts please.

Paul Marlow
General Secretary & Tournament Director