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Because of our disatisfaction with the official association here in Ontario and our inability to get them to agree to some changes Les Edwards and myself are going to start another snooker circuit in Ontario. It will be called 'ontariosnooker.club' and that will be the actual website (I didn't know you can have 4 letters in the extension, but I guess you can). The website should be active by this coming Friday 16th of January (fingers crossed).
Here is some info which will appear on the home page:
"Les Edwards and Terry Davidson became progressively disenchanted with the way snooker was being organized in Ontario. Mostly they felt the present association wasn't being very supportive in finding a way less skilled players could get some competition with their peers and be able to win some prize money and also the way the entry fees were being distributed back to the players as prize money since over half the funds were being held back and this resulted in limited prize money in the regularly scheduled tournaments.
After a non-productive meeting held in January, 2015 Les and Terry had a meeting with interested players and people with a vested interest in growing snooker in Ontario and came up with an alternative plan for tournaments which would be more inclusive and provide players of any skill level a chance to compete with their peers without having to play a strong player in their first match and end up losing their first match 4-0 and going home.
OntarioSnooker.club intends to start a series of tournaments at first-class clubs which will have 2 separate flights of players, designated 'AA' for those less skilled players and 'A' for the more skilled players. On the first day all the AA players will be placed in a random draw and will play down to 4, and a little later the A players will play their peers and get down to 4. At that point the 2 groups of 4 players will be put into the 1/4-final in a directed but random draw where in the 1/4's each AA player will play an A player.
Entry fees will be 100% distributed as prize money in a 40%-20%-10% and 5% and there will always be 4 AA players in the 1/4-finals where they will each receive at least 5% of the prize pool. We intend to have no membership fees initially and entry fees will be $40 with $30 going to the prize pool, $7 in green fees to the room owners and the remaining $3 will go towards the high break which will be limited to $50. Any money remaining from the $3 will go to website maintenance and anything left over at the end of the year will be plowed back into the prize pool for the next season's first tournament.
We are also hoping juniors (u21) and women players will be interested in being able to play 2 or 3 matches with their peers before they play one of the more skilled players and also we will be offering free group coaching to anyone who wants it from Terry Davidson who is certified as an IBSF Master Coach and WPBSA Level IV Coach."
Please pass this information to any snooker players in Ontario who may be interested. Our first tournament will be at The Corner Bank with 8 Shender tables, Hainsworth Match cloth and new 1G balls. Because we don't have any referees it will be no MISS rule (although players are expected to make an honest effort) and cueball fouls only. Relaxed casual dress (dress shoes, slacks and golf/polo shirt). All matches up to the final will be best-of-5 and the final will be best-of-7.
Here is some info which will appear on the home page:
"Les Edwards and Terry Davidson became progressively disenchanted with the way snooker was being organized in Ontario. Mostly they felt the present association wasn't being very supportive in finding a way less skilled players could get some competition with their peers and be able to win some prize money and also the way the entry fees were being distributed back to the players as prize money since over half the funds were being held back and this resulted in limited prize money in the regularly scheduled tournaments.
After a non-productive meeting held in January, 2015 Les and Terry had a meeting with interested players and people with a vested interest in growing snooker in Ontario and came up with an alternative plan for tournaments which would be more inclusive and provide players of any skill level a chance to compete with their peers without having to play a strong player in their first match and end up losing their first match 4-0 and going home.
OntarioSnooker.club intends to start a series of tournaments at first-class clubs which will have 2 separate flights of players, designated 'AA' for those less skilled players and 'A' for the more skilled players. On the first day all the AA players will be placed in a random draw and will play down to 4, and a little later the A players will play their peers and get down to 4. At that point the 2 groups of 4 players will be put into the 1/4-final in a directed but random draw where in the 1/4's each AA player will play an A player.
Entry fees will be 100% distributed as prize money in a 40%-20%-10% and 5% and there will always be 4 AA players in the 1/4-finals where they will each receive at least 5% of the prize pool. We intend to have no membership fees initially and entry fees will be $40 with $30 going to the prize pool, $7 in green fees to the room owners and the remaining $3 will go towards the high break which will be limited to $50. Any money remaining from the $3 will go to website maintenance and anything left over at the end of the year will be plowed back into the prize pool for the next season's first tournament.
We are also hoping juniors (u21) and women players will be interested in being able to play 2 or 3 matches with their peers before they play one of the more skilled players and also we will be offering free group coaching to anyone who wants it from Terry Davidson who is certified as an IBSF Master Coach and WPBSA Level IV Coach."
Please pass this information to any snooker players in Ontario who may be interested. Our first tournament will be at The Corner Bank with 8 Shender tables, Hainsworth Match cloth and new 1G balls. Because we don't have any referees it will be no MISS rule (although players are expected to make an honest effort) and cueball fouls only. Relaxed casual dress (dress shoes, slacks and golf/polo shirt). All matches up to the final will be best-of-5 and the final will be best-of-7.
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