T9B
Topic: T9B Euro Qualifier (Saturday 17.01.2015)

Total9ball is back in mid January and this will be our biggest season yet FACT!!

We begin with a Euro Tour Qualifier event sponsored by Dynamic Billard.

**AMATEUR PLAYERS ONLY**

When - Saturday 17th January
Where - St Albans Hurricane Room
Time - Draw 10.15am - Matches begin 10.30am
Entry Fee - T9B Members in advance £35
             - Non Members in advance £40
(In advance will be classed as the Thursday before the event)

***Having listened to the players views T9B have decided the following rule:-
Each player will be given 1 life for pay on the day. As we want players to pay in advance there will be a £5 charge for pay on the day players. If a player puts his/her name on the list but doesn't attend or let us know before the Thursday before the event (except extreme circumstances) they will be expected to pay a fine of half the entry fee before they will be allowed to play future T9B events. We can't say fairer than that***

Discipline - 9ball using T9B handicaps
Races to - 7 Racks (plus handicaps)
Draw - Random No Seeding


**T9B membership is available for £25 for the whole of 2015, being a member saves you £5 per event entered on entry. With over 20 events planned being a member could save you £75!!**

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The Winner of this event will receive entry into a choice of any of the 2015 seasons Dynamic Euro Tour events and will be sponsor £250 towards flight and Accommodation (receipts must be submitted to T9B to release sponsorship money)

There will also be prize money available on the day. The amount will depend on entry numbers
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Starting from this event, T9B will be implementing some rules and they will be stuck to 100% so don't test them!!

**Payments - Entry fees must be made in advance via bank transfer, Paypal (details on total9ball.com) or cash paid into a Lloyds branch to receive the entry discount (In advance will be classed as the Thursday before the event). Players wanting to pay on the day will be given 1 life for Pay on the Day and as we want players to pay in advance there will be a £5 charge fro pay on the day players.

**Lateness - 1 rack will be docked per 5 minutes that your late up to 20 minutes at which point the match will be awarded to your opponent,

(Racks will be taken regardless of if the opponent agrees or not)

**Leaving the venue - Players must let the TD know if they are leaving the venue! If your match is called and your not in the venue the above lateness penalties will apply.

Entry List

1 Phil Wildman (Paid)
2 Mark Parker (Paid)
3 Jamie Bryan
4 Aslam Abubaker (Paid)
5 Tom Staveley (Paid)
6 Ashik Nathwani (Paid)
7 Dave Evans
8 Lionel Brown
9 Steve Chick
10 Chris Seville (Paid)
11 Shakz Islam (Paid)
12 Apostalis Harmas
13 Paul Taylor
14 Zoltan Kojska
15 Darian George
16 Mark Silvester
17 Alan Bell
18 Bob Harris
19 Vesilin Paprandonov
20 Joe Granville
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Can you win your passport to the big time?

Yep

they would also have to be a member of the british pool federation in order to compete in epbf or wpa events.

£35 with membership and £50 without? Thought it was a saving of a fiver for being a member?

Hi Robin. It is a £5 difference. The extra money is for pay on the day. We want committed players to pay up entry early it's alot better for the comps and for us so we can be organised before the event.

it will put some people of to bud, take me, I do not have internet banking and finish work after 6 so impossible for me to get to a bank to pay up front and I would not pay £50 each comp to enter just because I cant pay upfront

Hi Rick thanks for your comments I can understand what your saying. The problem we have is as follows:-

*The Friday before the event all prize money ect is worked out. Then players drop out and new players come in. That means the work has to be redone several times.
*it's not so bad when we have say 32 players registered but an event like this one that is so far a low entry. If we allow all players to pay on the day we might end up with a 5 player event due to players not turning up. If we know this to be the case we would postpone but with pay on the day we don't know until it's to late.
*I'm sure you must know somebody who if you gave them cash could transfer your entry for you???
*we want committed players who put the date in there diary and commit to the event.
*Players who pay in advance would lose there entry fee if they don't turn up (except in extreme circumstances) How is it fair that those players are pushed for paying upfront when pay on the day players wake up in the morning and think. Nah I don't fancy going today.
*There are players willing to travel up to 300 miles to play these events but would want to know the minimum prize money before travelling. We lose these players as we can never say for 100% however now we can.
*imagine we said pay on the day to all and you get the train at your expense. You arrive and it's just me, Mark and yourself, guarantee you wouldn't be happy. That's what could potentially happy without these stricter rules.
We also have the club's to consider who need to know if extra staff are needed for the event again at the moment we cant say for definite and would hate to lose a venue due to staff wages being wasted.

If you really want to play m8 there are many ways to make a payment with a bit of effort.

This isn't in anyway a dig at you Rick it's just an explanation of the reasons why we are enforcing this. I know when you say you will but there then you do turn up but has to be one rule for all bud. You say we may lose players due to this and I agree but at the same time we would lose alot more players and alot quicker if players waste time and money to an event that's expected to supported but isn't.


Sorry if there is mistakes in this... typed on my phone therefore its my phones fault haha

na that's all cool, I see you point of view and understand why you have done it and i wish you luck with it all bud

***Rule Change***

***Having listened to the players views T9B have decided the following rule:-
Each player will be given 1 life for pay on the day. As we want players to pay in advance there will be a £5 charge for pay on the day players. If a player puts his/her name on the list but doesn't attend or let us know before the Thursday before the event (except extreme circumstances) they will be expected to pay a fine of half the entry fee before they will be allowed to play future T9B events. We can't say fairer than that***

Also the winner of this event will be the first player invited to the Champions Of Champions event at the end of the Season.
Entry for this event will be £30 if paid on the day of winning the event this confirming your space. There is already over £400 added to this event pot and the event will be open to a maximum of 16 players.



Even more reason to make this Euro Tour Qualifier your first T9B event of the new year.