Coffs Ex-Services Intra Snooker & Billiards Club

Happy New Year to all. Hope you all enjoyed the festive season and that you're looking forward to a properous 2008!

Please find attached to this article the completed draw for this years North Coast Handicap Snooker Tournament.

Good luck to all involved!

Nominations for the annual North Coast Handicap Snooker Tournament are now open. Please find attached to this item the information and nomination sheets. Nominations will close Wednesday 15th August. Please note, no nomination will be accepted without it being accompanied by the $30 entry fee.

This inaugural Open Pool Tournament will be held over the weekend of 3rd and 4th November 2007. Five hundred dollars first Prize and two hundred and fifty dollars Runner Up.
A limit of 32 players to be accepted. Nomination fee of twenty five dollars payable to The Woolgoolga P.S. & B. Club. Post to: The Secretary P.O. Box 639 Woolgoolga NSW 2456.Other prizes to include a repechage on Sunday, semi finalist and quarter finalist prizes plus incentives for local members to join in.
This Tournament will be run under the rules of The Woolgoolga Pool, Snooker and Billiards Club.
Sponsorship by Coffs Harbour Tile Wizards..Miles of Tiles at 186 Orlando Street, Coffs harbour 2450

Woolgoolga will hold its second Snooker Tournament on Saturday and Sunday 22nd and 23rd September 2007. A Five hundred dollar first prize packet with two hundred dollars to the runner up. A Repechage will be held with one hundred and fifty dollars Prize to the winner and fifty dollars to the runner up. Semi Finalists: Fifty dollars each. Quarter Finalists: Twenty five dollars each. Best performed P.S. & B club member twenty five dollars. Last year proved to be a very socialable and enjoyable first time for us. The Woolgoolga returned Services Club was happy with the results and again this year are helping to sponsor this event with the help of Spanline Home Edditions. Thank you to these sponsors.

The normal Thursday Night Snooker Competition held weekly now has an added bonus.

The players who win either the Main Draw or Repechage on every Thursday night in a given month qualify to play a full frame, knock-out game on club handicap at the beginning of the next month, with the winner claiming $100.

Brian Foley won the January competition, and tonight is the final night for qualifying in the February draw. Get in on Thursday nights and be rewarded for playing well.

Any further questions can be directed to myself, or any other committee member on Thursday nights.

The Coffs Harbour Ex-Services Intra Snooker and Billiards Club's annual North Coast Handicap Snooker Tournament is slated to be held on the 18th and 19th of August 2007.

Watch this space for when nominations open!

For any further information, please don't hesitate to contact any of our committee members via the information on the contact us page.

Mark Nuske (Sawtell) defeated Roy Peisley (Taree)to win the North Coast Handicap Snooker Competition in a nail-biting five frame match which went down to wire. Mark needed both the pink and black in the final frame to win and potted them in convincing fashion.

An earlier fight back by Roy seen the game levelled 2 all in the 4th frame after a 'spectator friendly' 22 break which saw an amazing blue go around the table and sneak past the black perched precariously over the top pocket. Congratulations to both of our finalists, well done.

Competition was fierce all weekend, many of the top players were knocked out of the main draw in the first round. Brett Hunter was unfortunate enough to be included here, but subsequently went on to win the Repechage after playing consistently for the remainder of the weekend.

With the tables having just recently been recovered, it was the general concensus of the players that break building would be diffucult, despite the playing surface being in top condition. This however didnt stop local man Rob Nicholls from compiling a commendable 51 point break to take the prize for Highest Break of the Competition. Semi-Finalist, Jeff Otto also compiled a 44, coming from 37 points behind to take the frame.

Congratulations must also go to our losing Semi-Finalists, Jeff Otto and Peter Peawkumdee both of Coffs Harbour.

As always, everyone I had the chance to talk to enjoyed the weekend and the play, as did the committee. We hope to see everyone back next year for what is certain to be an even more enjoyable competition.

Sam.

Edit 21/08:- Added completed main draw. (main_draw.jpg, 219k)

As an incentive for women to play in more competition in general, the club has decided to offer $100 to the best performed woman in our annual august North Coast Handicap Snooker Competition.

This is a prime opportunity for the women of the Snooker and Billiards community to show they can stick it to the men and make a tidy profit for doing it.

As a side note, nominations for the competition will close at 7pm on Wednesday 16th August. No further nominations will be accepted after this time. Anybody whom is posting their nomination in and expects it to arrive on or after the 16th is advised to contact a comittee member and inform them.

Nominations may be posted to the club using the details on our contact page.

Looking forward to a great weekend this year, hope to see you all there.

Nomination form and Information attached to this post, see attachments at top.

Due to an overly large amount of A and B Grade players and a low amount of C Grade players participating in the clubs graded competitions, the grading structure has been revised.

The Grading now stands to have a small A Grade and medium sized B Grade instead of a huge A & B Grade contingent.

A Grade will now ONLY comprise of 8 players. The grade will be our 'premier' grade, containing only the clubs best players. To remain in the grade the player must play consistantly well and consistantly better than those in B Grade.

B Grade will now contain those removed from A grade and a portion of those who were in B Grade. B Grade will be the stepping stone for those who play well to reach A Grade.

C Grade now has more players due to the re-shuffle.

All graded competitions are still handicapped so there's no need for concern about A grade players being in B Grade or etcetera. Gradings will be re-assessed a various points throughout the year.

We hope this system will both level the playing field a bit and encourage all our players to play well and attain a higher grading.