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IT WAS third time lucky for Gosport teenager Mark Lloyd at the Cuestars South of England Under-21 finals day.
After falling just one ball short of the Silver Tour championship title in two of the last three years, Lloyd finally crossed the winning line at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
The 14-year-old, who was promoted this season and finished the eight-leg Gold Tour circuit as joint rankings winner, accounted for Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 3-0 in the play-off final.
“Stewart had his chances but that’s the way it goes,” he said. “It’s snooker.
In the early rounds, he defeated Jake Keen (YMCA Red Triangle Club, Walton-on-the-Naze) 3-2 and Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) 3-0.
Lloyd, who is based at and sponsored by Stoke Snooker Club, lost in last year’s Silver final to Daniel Knox (Ascot) and in 2011 to Dean Matthews (Reading).
Although he admits that national competitions are now his main focus, Lloyd reckons the strength of the opposition on the Gold Tour makes it the perfect preparation for events run by the English Association of Snooker & Billiards (EASB).
An English Under-16 Championship semi-finalist this year, he currently lies second on the EASB Regional Junior Tour South with one leg to play at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club on Sunday.
“I’ll use this (Gold Tour) as practice next season because you get people like Jake Keen, who can play the game to a very high standard,” he explained.
“He did well in Q School. It was a shame he lost to Michael Leslie who actually went pro in the end. You also get a very good game against Brad (Chappell) and the people from Jesters.”
But he added: “The Premier Tour is the focus. If I play like I can play, I can get through. Fingers crossed.”
Joint rankings winner Chappell (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), a notorious slow starter, kicked off with a 72 break in the first frame of his 3-0 quarter-final victory over Sam Storey (Crucible, Newbury).
He then lost 3-0 to clubmate Ball, who finished ninth in the rankings.
RESULTS
QUARTER-FINALS: Bradley Chappell (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Sam Storey (Crucible, Newbury) 3-0, Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon) 3-2, Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) beat James Budd (Stoke SC, Gosport) 3-0, Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Jake Keen (YMCA Red Triangle Club, Walton-on-the-Naze) 3-2.
SEMI-FINALS: Ball beat Chappell 3-0, Lloyd beat Parsons 3-0.
FINAL: Lloyd beat Ball 3-0.
IT WAS a case of ‘if you can’t join them, beat them’ for Wiltshire snooker ace Conor Flanagan at the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Silver Tour play-off.
Flanagan took advantage of home tables at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon, to emulate Denmark’s fairytale victory in Euro ’92.
Travel problems restricted the 17-year-old to attending only two of the eight legs and he finished the season in 18th place.
But a week before the top-16 competed for the championship title, a couple of players dropped out and Flanagan was invited to make up the numbers.
“My dad said I may as well give it a go,” he explained. “It was good advice.”
Last season’s Bronze Tour rankings winner accounted for Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-1, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC) 2-1, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0 and Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury) 2-0 in the final.
Flanagan, who has increased his highest break to 64, insisted he will compete on next season’s Gold Tour.
“I haven’t been playing competitive snooker, I’ve just been practising,” he said.
“I’ll get back into tournaments next season.”
Elsewhere, 11-year-old rankings winner Mickey Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC) was knocked out 2-0 by Browne in the semi-finals.
Denmark’s players were called back off holiday in 1992 to take the place of Yugoslavia, barred from entering because of their country’s civil war, in football’s European Championship in Sweden. And, remarkably, the underdogs beat Germany in the final.
BREAKS
Jasmine Bolsover: 47, 32.
Bradley Leishman: 31.
RESULTS
LAST-16: Mickey Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Thomas Holton (Woking SC) 2-0, Bradley Leishman (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Joe Kitchen (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-0, Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-0, Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury) beat Lewis Parnham (SWSA, Gloucester) 2-0, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Nathan Farmer (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-0, Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Jamie Wilson (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) 2-1, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC) beat Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-1, Conor Flanagan (Jesters, Swindon) beat Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-1.
QUARTER-FINALS: Joyce beat Leishman 2-1, Browne beat Sykes 2-0, Church beat Cowdroy 2-1, Flanagan beat Bolsover 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS: Browne beat Joyce 2-0, Flanagan beat Church 2-0.
FINAL: Flanagan beat Browne 2-0.
A TEN-year-old from Gosport may prove to be snooker’s Dick Fosbury.
Ollie Gibbs and his unique bridge hand defied the coaching textbooks by clinching the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour Championship.
And he achieved it after only six-and-a-half-hours sleep the previous night.
The remarkable youngster from Stoke Snooker Club utilised his phenomenal potting power to see off 15-year-old Callum McDonald (Salisbury) 2-0 in the top-16 play-off final at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
But Gibbs was quick to pay tribute to his opponent.
“It wasn’t easy at all because Callum is a really good player,” he said.
“But I handled the pressure shots well. When the chance came, I took the opportunity.”
Gibbs, who had finished third in the rankings after winning two of the first three legs but failing to escape the group stages in three of the last four events, added: “I knew I couldn’t win the rankings but I knew I could be Bronze Tour champion.”
Earlier, he fought back from 1-0 down to account for rankings runner-up Edward James (Woking SC) 2-1 in the last-four.
“The other two frames were really tense,” said Gibbs. “They were all down to the colours. He played very well.”
And he had a word for his at-home mum, Louise, whose birthday party he left the previous night at 1am.
“Happy birthday mum!” he beamed. “I’m really over the moon at the moment. I’m not really that tired now.”
Turning to the Gibbs Bridge, the budding star reckons he’s the only player using this style and he refuses to change.
“It works for me,” he insisted. “I’m going to stick with it.”
Such innovation and single-mindedness saw high jumping revolutionised in the 1960s. American athlete Fosbury - and his now famous Flop, a then unheard of backwards jump - astonished the world by being crowned Olympic champion in 1968.
RESULTS
LAST-16: Luke Beebe (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Connor Shaw (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0, Ben Tillison (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0, Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC) beat Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury) 2-0, Callum McDonald (Salisbury SC) beat Connor Benzey (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-0, Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC) beat Nat Kidner (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-1, Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC) beat Ben Hatch (Eastleigh) 2-0, Edward James (Woking SC) beat Harry Cook (Woking SC) 2-0. Bye: Ollie Gibbs (Stoke SC, Gosport).
QUARTER-FINALS: Beebe beat Tillison 2-0, McDonald beat Petty 2-0, Gibbs beat Reed 2-0, James beat Pollard 2-0.
SEMI-FINALS: McDonald beat Beebe 2-0, Gibbs beat James 2-1.
FINAL: Gibbs beat McDonald 2-0.
LAST season’s beaten finalists Jasmine Bolsover and dad Gavin claimed the Family Doubles title during the Cuestars finals day at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon – but only just.
Gavin potted the final black and then the re-spot as the Woking pair ended the hopes of World Snooker coach Duncan Ashman and his son Liam, from Westbury, in the final.
FAMILY DOUBLES (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)
LAST-16: Jasmine & Gavin Bolsover beat Joe & Michael Kitchen, Ally & Sarah Pollard beat the Reeds, Bradley & Jim Cowdroy beat Bradley Leishman & Allan Farmer, James Budd & Ian Rowlands beat the Kidners, Oliver & Dan Sykes beat Connor Shaw & Colin Chappell, Liam & Duncan Ashman beat the Dixons, Arnie & Kaine Petty beat Ben & Mark Tillison, Ben & Colin Hatch beat Farmers.
QUARTER-FINALS: Bolsovers beat Pollards, Budd & Rowlands beat Cowdroys, Ashmans beat Sykes, Hatchs beat Pettys.
SEMI-FINALS: Bolsovers beat Budd & Rowlands, Ashmans beat Hatchs.
FINAL: Bolsovers beat Ashmans.
OLLIE Parsons collected two trophies at the Cuestars finals day at his home club, Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
Parsons, who had already won his Section rankings, defeated Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) 3-1 in the Six-Reds final.
Earlier, he had lost 3-0 to the eventual champion Mark Lloyd in the last-four of the Gold Tour play-off.
SIX-REDS CHAMPIONSHIP (ONE-FRAME MATCHES UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)
PRELIMS: Connor Benzey (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Nat Kidner (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Connor Shaw (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Nathan Farmer (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Luke Dixon (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) beat Ben Hatch (Eastleigh).
LAST-16: Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon) beat Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC), Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Joe Kitchen (Stoke SC, Gosport), Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Bradley Leishman (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Benzey, Kidner beat Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury), Lewis Parnham (SWSA, Gloucester) beat Farmer, A Petty beat James Budd (Stoke SC, Gosport), Parsons beat Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC).
QUARTER-FINALS: Trigg beat Lee, Gillon beat Leishman, Parnham beat Kidner, Parsons beat A Petty.
SEMI-FINALS: Trigg beat Gillon 2-1, Parsons beat Parnham 2-0.
FINAL: Parsons beat Trigg 3-1.
ENGLAND internationals Ben Harrison and Billy Castle were impressed with the current crop of Cuestars champions.
The former Cuestars juniors, dubbed the Powerpot Men, presented the trophies and played exhibition frames against prize winners during finals day at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
Harrison, fresh from Q School, picked out Silver Tour rankings winner Mickey Joyce.
“He’s only 11!” he said. “He’s very good. I was impressed with him.
“And (Gold champion) Mark Lloyd hits the ball really sweet. There are some really good players.”
Castle added: “There’s some good players, especially Mickey Joyce and (Bronze rankings winner) Luke Beebe. Mark Lloyd looks a very good player.
“The one that won Bronze (Ollie Gibbs), every time I looked over he was potting balls. He looks like he’ll be a good player.”
Harrison and Castle, who are now both knocking on the door of the professional circuit, said they “enjoyed” their second year as special guests.
“It’s good fun,” said Harrison. “I really enjoy it, seeing the different types of style.
“I played in all the age groups. It’s weird how old we feel.”
Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)
About Cuestars
Founded 20 years ago by director John Hunter, Cuestars runs grass-root snooker tournaments across the South of England and South Wales.
Competitions take place on Sundays between October and June, and cater for players of all ages.
All Cuestars tournaments are played off scratch. There are no handicaps, except in the Under-21 Plate. Cuestars uses a round-robin format leading to a knockout.
Competitions for 2013/14 included: South of England Championship Tour; Under-21 Gold, Silver and Bronze Tours; Weekend Junior Section Rankings and Seniors (40+) Tour.
Website: cuestars.co.uk E-mail John Hunter: john@cuestars.co.uk.
After falling just one ball short of the Silver Tour championship title in two of the last three years, Lloyd finally crossed the winning line at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
The 14-year-old, who was promoted this season and finished the eight-leg Gold Tour circuit as joint rankings winner, accounted for Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 3-0 in the play-off final.
“Stewart had his chances but that’s the way it goes,” he said. “It’s snooker.
In the early rounds, he defeated Jake Keen (YMCA Red Triangle Club, Walton-on-the-Naze) 3-2 and Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) 3-0.
Lloyd, who is based at and sponsored by Stoke Snooker Club, lost in last year’s Silver final to Daniel Knox (Ascot) and in 2011 to Dean Matthews (Reading).
Although he admits that national competitions are now his main focus, Lloyd reckons the strength of the opposition on the Gold Tour makes it the perfect preparation for events run by the English Association of Snooker & Billiards (EASB).
An English Under-16 Championship semi-finalist this year, he currently lies second on the EASB Regional Junior Tour South with one leg to play at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club on Sunday.
“I’ll use this (Gold Tour) as practice next season because you get people like Jake Keen, who can play the game to a very high standard,” he explained.
“He did well in Q School. It was a shame he lost to Michael Leslie who actually went pro in the end. You also get a very good game against Brad (Chappell) and the people from Jesters.”
But he added: “The Premier Tour is the focus. If I play like I can play, I can get through. Fingers crossed.”
Joint rankings winner Chappell (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), a notorious slow starter, kicked off with a 72 break in the first frame of his 3-0 quarter-final victory over Sam Storey (Crucible, Newbury).
He then lost 3-0 to clubmate Ball, who finished ninth in the rankings.
RESULTS
QUARTER-FINALS: Bradley Chappell (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Sam Storey (Crucible, Newbury) 3-0, Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon) 3-2, Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) beat James Budd (Stoke SC, Gosport) 3-0, Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Jake Keen (YMCA Red Triangle Club, Walton-on-the-Naze) 3-2.
SEMI-FINALS: Ball beat Chappell 3-0, Lloyd beat Parsons 3-0.
FINAL: Lloyd beat Ball 3-0.
IT WAS a case of ‘if you can’t join them, beat them’ for Wiltshire snooker ace Conor Flanagan at the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Silver Tour play-off.
Flanagan took advantage of home tables at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon, to emulate Denmark’s fairytale victory in Euro ’92.
Travel problems restricted the 17-year-old to attending only two of the eight legs and he finished the season in 18th place.
But a week before the top-16 competed for the championship title, a couple of players dropped out and Flanagan was invited to make up the numbers.
“My dad said I may as well give it a go,” he explained. “It was good advice.”
Last season’s Bronze Tour rankings winner accounted for Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-1, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC) 2-1, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0 and Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury) 2-0 in the final.
Flanagan, who has increased his highest break to 64, insisted he will compete on next season’s Gold Tour.
“I haven’t been playing competitive snooker, I’ve just been practising,” he said.
“I’ll get back into tournaments next season.”
Elsewhere, 11-year-old rankings winner Mickey Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC) was knocked out 2-0 by Browne in the semi-finals.
Denmark’s players were called back off holiday in 1992 to take the place of Yugoslavia, barred from entering because of their country’s civil war, in football’s European Championship in Sweden. And, remarkably, the underdogs beat Germany in the final.
BREAKS
Jasmine Bolsover: 47, 32.
Bradley Leishman: 31.
RESULTS
LAST-16: Mickey Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Thomas Holton (Woking SC) 2-0, Bradley Leishman (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Joe Kitchen (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-0, Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-0, Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury) beat Lewis Parnham (SWSA, Gloucester) 2-0, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Nathan Farmer (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-0, Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Jamie Wilson (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) 2-1, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC) beat Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-1, Conor Flanagan (Jesters, Swindon) beat Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-1.
QUARTER-FINALS: Joyce beat Leishman 2-1, Browne beat Sykes 2-0, Church beat Cowdroy 2-1, Flanagan beat Bolsover 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS: Browne beat Joyce 2-0, Flanagan beat Church 2-0.
FINAL: Flanagan beat Browne 2-0.
A TEN-year-old from Gosport may prove to be snooker’s Dick Fosbury.
Ollie Gibbs and his unique bridge hand defied the coaching textbooks by clinching the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour Championship.
And he achieved it after only six-and-a-half-hours sleep the previous night.
The remarkable youngster from Stoke Snooker Club utilised his phenomenal potting power to see off 15-year-old Callum McDonald (Salisbury) 2-0 in the top-16 play-off final at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
But Gibbs was quick to pay tribute to his opponent.
“It wasn’t easy at all because Callum is a really good player,” he said.
“But I handled the pressure shots well. When the chance came, I took the opportunity.”
Gibbs, who had finished third in the rankings after winning two of the first three legs but failing to escape the group stages in three of the last four events, added: “I knew I couldn’t win the rankings but I knew I could be Bronze Tour champion.”
Earlier, he fought back from 1-0 down to account for rankings runner-up Edward James (Woking SC) 2-1 in the last-four.
“The other two frames were really tense,” said Gibbs. “They were all down to the colours. He played very well.”
And he had a word for his at-home mum, Louise, whose birthday party he left the previous night at 1am.
“Happy birthday mum!” he beamed. “I’m really over the moon at the moment. I’m not really that tired now.”
Turning to the Gibbs Bridge, the budding star reckons he’s the only player using this style and he refuses to change.
“It works for me,” he insisted. “I’m going to stick with it.”
Such innovation and single-mindedness saw high jumping revolutionised in the 1960s. American athlete Fosbury - and his now famous Flop, a then unheard of backwards jump - astonished the world by being crowned Olympic champion in 1968.
RESULTS
LAST-16: Luke Beebe (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Connor Shaw (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0, Ben Tillison (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-0, Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC) beat Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury) 2-0, Callum McDonald (Salisbury SC) beat Connor Benzey (Chandler’s Ford SC) 2-0, Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC) beat Nat Kidner (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) 2-1, Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC) beat Ben Hatch (Eastleigh) 2-0, Edward James (Woking SC) beat Harry Cook (Woking SC) 2-0. Bye: Ollie Gibbs (Stoke SC, Gosport).
QUARTER-FINALS: Beebe beat Tillison 2-0, McDonald beat Petty 2-0, Gibbs beat Reed 2-0, James beat Pollard 2-0.
SEMI-FINALS: McDonald beat Beebe 2-0, Gibbs beat James 2-1.
FINAL: Gibbs beat McDonald 2-0.
LAST season’s beaten finalists Jasmine Bolsover and dad Gavin claimed the Family Doubles title during the Cuestars finals day at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon – but only just.
Gavin potted the final black and then the re-spot as the Woking pair ended the hopes of World Snooker coach Duncan Ashman and his son Liam, from Westbury, in the final.
FAMILY DOUBLES (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)
LAST-16: Jasmine & Gavin Bolsover beat Joe & Michael Kitchen, Ally & Sarah Pollard beat the Reeds, Bradley & Jim Cowdroy beat Bradley Leishman & Allan Farmer, James Budd & Ian Rowlands beat the Kidners, Oliver & Dan Sykes beat Connor Shaw & Colin Chappell, Liam & Duncan Ashman beat the Dixons, Arnie & Kaine Petty beat Ben & Mark Tillison, Ben & Colin Hatch beat Farmers.
QUARTER-FINALS: Bolsovers beat Pollards, Budd & Rowlands beat Cowdroys, Ashmans beat Sykes, Hatchs beat Pettys.
SEMI-FINALS: Bolsovers beat Budd & Rowlands, Ashmans beat Hatchs.
FINAL: Bolsovers beat Ashmans.
OLLIE Parsons collected two trophies at the Cuestars finals day at his home club, Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
Parsons, who had already won his Section rankings, defeated Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) 3-1 in the Six-Reds final.
Earlier, he had lost 3-0 to the eventual champion Mark Lloyd in the last-four of the Gold Tour play-off.
SIX-REDS CHAMPIONSHIP (ONE-FRAME MATCHES UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)
PRELIMS: Connor Benzey (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Nat Kidner (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Connor Shaw (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Nathan Farmer (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Luke Dixon (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Ollie Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) beat Ben Hatch (Eastleigh).
LAST-16: Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon) beat Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC), Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Joe Kitchen (Stoke SC, Gosport), Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Bradley Leishman (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Benzey, Kidner beat Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury), Lewis Parnham (SWSA, Gloucester) beat Farmer, A Petty beat James Budd (Stoke SC, Gosport), Parsons beat Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC).
QUARTER-FINALS: Trigg beat Lee, Gillon beat Leishman, Parnham beat Kidner, Parsons beat A Petty.
SEMI-FINALS: Trigg beat Gillon 2-1, Parsons beat Parnham 2-0.
FINAL: Parsons beat Trigg 3-1.
ENGLAND internationals Ben Harrison and Billy Castle were impressed with the current crop of Cuestars champions.
The former Cuestars juniors, dubbed the Powerpot Men, presented the trophies and played exhibition frames against prize winners during finals day at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.
Harrison, fresh from Q School, picked out Silver Tour rankings winner Mickey Joyce.
“He’s only 11!” he said. “He’s very good. I was impressed with him.
“And (Gold champion) Mark Lloyd hits the ball really sweet. There are some really good players.”
Castle added: “There’s some good players, especially Mickey Joyce and (Bronze rankings winner) Luke Beebe. Mark Lloyd looks a very good player.
“The one that won Bronze (Ollie Gibbs), every time I looked over he was potting balls. He looks like he’ll be a good player.”
Harrison and Castle, who are now both knocking on the door of the professional circuit, said they “enjoyed” their second year as special guests.
“It’s good fun,” said Harrison. “I really enjoy it, seeing the different types of style.
“I played in all the age groups. It’s weird how old we feel.”
Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)
About Cuestars
Founded 20 years ago by director John Hunter, Cuestars runs grass-root snooker tournaments across the South of England and South Wales.
Competitions take place on Sundays between October and June, and cater for players of all ages.
All Cuestars tournaments are played off scratch. There are no handicaps, except in the Under-21 Plate. Cuestars uses a round-robin format leading to a knockout.
Competitions for 2013/14 included: South of England Championship Tour; Under-21 Gold, Silver and Bronze Tours; Weekend Junior Section Rankings and Seniors (40+) Tour.
Website: cuestars.co.uk E-mail John Hunter: john@cuestars.co.uk.