Entries by Chris Jones

Hi all

Apologies for the late sending of results, our ATD has other commitments this week.

Below are the results and attached is the detailed ladder. Please note my manual calculations of for and against are not official, but should be pretty accurate. I also apologise for only including team names not venues, again this is manual so trying to save time.

Good luck to all teams next week.

Regards
Chris Jones
ACTEBA Tournament Director


The detailed ladder is available here:

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Winter/2011_Winter_Ladder.xls

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RONY SOOD

A massive congratulations to Rony on winning his first Open Singles Title. This was Rony's second state final after his runner up in last year's Open Doubles. It was also his second attempt at the Open Singles Top 4 after finishing 4th in 2008.

Rony beat Anthony Chia in the final 9-4, stepping up his game to another level after Anthony had won all 3 matches in the round robin stage to enter the final as slight favourite.

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Hi all

After an exciting and draining two days of eight ball, we have the first 9 players to be offered an invitation to the 2011 ACT Mens Team, as well as out final four players in the two month long search for our State Champion. A massive 480 frames were played this weekend, with it all coming down to the final two frames at the table deciding our top 4 and potential top 9. Not to mention 3 frames separating 6th from 12th...

If you want to put 480 frames in perspective, by the way, that’s the equivalent of 20 rounds of Wednesday nights all in one weekend.

A cold July Canberra morning greeted the players on Saturday as they arrived at The Maram for two days of the toughest Eight Ball in the ACT. With four rounds of 15 frames ahead of them, it is always the player whose mental stamina is the toughest that wins through in these rounds. With 9 spots in the State Team and 4 spots in next weekend’s State Championship up for grabs, the players’ mental stamina was going to be severely tested.
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Hi all

You couldn’t have asked for a better round going into the last weekend of the 2011 ACTEBA Open Singles Title. With one group decided by a playoff, the other 3 all had just one frame separating 4th and 5th.

While group 3 had three players tied for 2nd on 16 frames, 5th place was just one back on 15. But Group 2 produced the tensest finish of the day, as 3rd and 4th sat equal on 14 frames, 5th, 6th and 7th were just one frame back on 13!!!
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Hi all

Please find attached the Captain's Pack for the 2011 Winter Season. (Thanks to Matt Power for putting this together).

Included is:

• The Draw


• Summary of Team grading


• World Eight Ball Playing Rules


• A guide for new captains


• Scoresheets in colour and black & white

You will notice that the finals series format has changed. For those who haven't attended the meetings or read the minutes, week 1 is 1 v 2 and 3 v 4. The winner of 1 v 2 progresses straight to the Grand Final, while the loser plays the winner of 3 v 4 to get there the following week. For the loser of 3 v 4, sorry, no more second chances this year. This gives more of a reward to the teams that finish in the top 2.

Please refresh yourself with the guide for captains, it is a useful tool for any queries that may come up throughout the season. It also avoids the "I didn't know I had to do that" argument!

Also, a LOT of work has been done to update the by laws by Matt Power. These were officially passed as accepted at last night's meeting and will be emailed out soon. Please don't just delete the email when it comes, it can save you a world of hurt if you know the rules.

IMPORTANT - registration fees are due at the next meeting, MONDAY 1st AUGUST. This only gives you 3 rounds to collect your fees from your players, so please be organised.

Good luck to all teams this season. We continue to see close battles for the finals spots and tight finals matches being played, showing that we are getting stronger each season.

Regards

Chris Jones
ACTEBA Tournament Director

0403 545 619

The 2011 Winter Team Gradings, Scoresheets, Captain's Guide, the Winter Draw, and a copy of the most recent World 8-Ball Rules are available as a single WinZip archive here:

2011 Winter Captain's Pack (Winzip, 231 kb)

UPDATED - Venues are confirmed.
Group 1 - The Basement (Sun)
Group 2 - The Maram (Sat)
Group 3 - The Maram (Sat)
Group 4 - Labor Club (Sun)

Hi all

Yet another exciting round of eight ball was contested on the weekend, with two groups decided by playoffs. This included group 3, which saw the top 3 finish level on 16 frames, then two players play off for 4th after finishing just one frame back on 15!

Not too many surprises, with most of the top seeds performing well, but some big efforts from some of the "lower" seeds certainly shook things up this weekend. Mention has to go to Brent Hampton (23/9), as well as Mongrel and Dean Welsh (both 22/6).

We did see 10 of the top 32 seeds fall this weekend, including one very big upset, but with 8 of our top 10 and 16 of our top 20 still remaining, it's going to be very tough for one of our three Round One "bolters" to keep their great run up.

In case you didn't already notice and haven't opened the attachments before reading my dribble, attached are the results from Round 3 and groups for Round 4. With so much more on the line this weekend, there will be no changes. These are locked in. Venues, however, will be added tonight (didn't get a chance what with the meeting last night).

Well played to the players who bowed out this round, there are a lot of players out there who would have loved to have had a shot. And of course, good luck to all players this weekend. Remember - a spot in the 16 and a chance at the State team is on the line!

Click to download:

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round3_Results.xls


http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round4_Groups.xls

Regards

Chris Jones
ACTEBA Tournament Director

[UPDATED 11:15 29/6/11: Round 3 groups available here: http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round3_Groups.xls]

[UPDATED 21:05 28/6/11: Round 2 results attached.]

Hi all

With 4th place in all 9 groups decided by 2 frames or less (including two playoffs), it was another tight weekend of tournament Eight Ball.

An incredible 12 players notched up 20+ wins on the weekend, with Palmer Dunn hitting 24/8 to win the most frames, and Simon Wade clocking 21/7 in a group of 8 to also hit 75% for the day.

With 67 players left, this weekend sees the Top 32 seeds join the qualifiers in 8 groups (3 x 9 players and 5 x 8 players). This is where it really gets interesting as the pressure definitely gets raised about 4 notches.

For those who like my useless facts, the 36 qualifiers contain just 21 of the 35 players from the 33-65 seeds. Now, the 65th seed was ranked 76th, and of the remaining 15 qualifiers, only 6 also come from within the top 100. A further 5 are from 101-150, while 4 players are ranked outside the top 150!!!

I'll have more useless facts about the number of frames we've played so far next week...

Groups for round 3 will will be out in the morning, I was supposed to do it today but the file I sent myself at work was corrupted so here I am now doing this.

I have only sent this to the captains, as my email doesn't have the capacity to send to bulk addresses, so if you want to send it on to your team please do, but I will send to all players in the morning as well.

Please find attached the results for round 2.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round2_Results.xls

Rehards
Chris Jones
ACREBA Tournament Director
0403 545 619

[UPDATED]: Please note that the Round 2 groupings were re-adjusted about two hours after they were first emailed, please check that you have the latest version.

Hi all

Well, my final tournament has kicked off in style with a tight round of the Open Singles this weekend gone.

Of the 11 groups that competed, 4th was decided by a playoff in two of them, with a further 7 decided by 1 frame! Only group 11 was clear cut, with a massive 4 frame gap between 4th and 5th. As for the other group...

We had the unfortunate situation this week of being left with a group of 4. Well, not unfortunate for the 4 who then got a free pass to round 2, but I guess unfortunate for the rest of us battling through a group of 8 or 9 only to miss out by one frame after 7 hours of eight ball. (Curse that missed black in round 1!!!!)

I know circumstances change and people can't always make their group, but I only ask that if you know you will be unavailable, please call either myself or Matt Power before the weekend to inform us. While we won't be able to help with switching your day of play, we can at least look at moving players around to keep it a level playing field. Think about how you felt at 6 o'clock on the weekend knowing a group of 4 had played. I know I was pretty p***ed off on the day.

All that being said, there were a few players who did the right thing and let us know in advance, so thank you to them.

Moving on, well done to all players who played this weekend. And congratulations to the players who qualified for Round 2. This weekend sees the seeds 33-65 join the fray with our 44 qualifiers. A bumper round 2 of 77 players has been split into 9 groups this weekend, again with the top 4 qualifying.

Please find attached results from round 1 and the groups for round 2.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round1_Results.xls

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round2_Groups.xls

[UPDATED Jun 16, 14:48]

Hi all

Again - apologies for the delay in finalising these groups. The extra players I missed actually would have created a group of 10, so to alleviate this we now have a 65th seed (Phil Bryan) who will join in Round 2 with seeds 33-64.

You will notice that a few players have changed groups - however only two have actually changed their day of play. This was unavoidable in the process of adding the additional players.

Please see attached for final groups and venues.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round1_Groups.xls

Regards

Chris Jones


Please find attached the groups for round 1 of the Open Singles. Venues will be confirmed in the next few days, but thought you might like to at least see when and who you were playing.

Don't forget that the top 64 seeds have the first week off.

Play will start at 11am for all groups, with tables open from 10.30am for practice. If you are not present WHEN THE FIRST FRAME OF THE DAY IS CALLED you will be disqualified, unless you have notified either your adjudicator, myself or Matt Power PRIOR to play commencing - with a GOOD excuse. "I slept in" does not count as a good excuse.

Play will be four round robins, so for the groups of 9, this does mean 32 frames. Please be mindful of the need to shorten breaks between play by checking with your adjudicator FIRST before you go for a smoke, take a toilet break or try and squeeze in a bite to eat. You will find they are usually accomodating.

On that note, while we encourage you to purchase food from the venues that are supporting us, please be aware that a full sit down meal that takes you half an hour to eat is not fair on the other players. If you
are happy to come and go from your food then by all means order whatever you like.

Remember that at all times the adjudicator is in control of the group, so be ready to play at all times if they need you to. Adjudicators also have the final say in any close decisions or rulings that may come up through the day, so please call them over if you have any queries.

Other than that, good luck to all players this weekend in what is our largest tournament of the year. Again - venues to be confirmed in the next few days.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Singles_Round1_groups.xls

Venues for the deciding State of Origin matches are confirmed!

As we hopefully anticipated, our two premier venues have agreed to host two of the most important matches in the calendar, the Division 1 and Division 2 State of Origin matches.

Next week, Fyshwick Tavern will host the all important Division 2 match, while Canberra Labor Club will see the deciding Division 1 match to crown the 2011 Champion.

Every frame in this series is important as the next, be it div 6 or div 1, and the matches so far have been hotly contested. Now it is time for the big guns to have their turn. Whether your team has the lead, or if you need the State Team regulars to make up a few for you, this will be the best Eight Ball you will see outside the Top 16. In fact, given the pride that is at stake, I reckon it might just rival it...

And remember, each of these div 1 and 2 players is playing alongside you all to defeat the enemy that is the Nor - oh yeah, I forgot, impartial Tournament Director and all that...

So come and have a gander at some top quality Eight Ball, and see the Southern Guns walk away with the trophy... (oh crap I'm supposed to be impartial aren't I... hey it's my last season - GO THE GUNS!!!)

Regards
Chris Jones
5 Time Southern Guns Representative
ACTEBA Tournament Director
0403 545 619

Hi all

Below are the State of Origin Venues for the next two weeks:

Divs 5 and 6 (Wed 8 June) - The Basement

Divs 3 and 4 (Wed 15 June) - The Maram

Divisions 1 and 2 are scheduled for two separate Wednesdays, I will have those venues confirmed shortly. Please inform all your players.

Good luck to all players, may the best team win as long as that team is the Southern Guns...

The 2011 ACT Masters Singles is being held this weekend at The Maram.

With 17 entries this year, we are continuing with the format of splitting the field into two groups of 8 and 9, with seedings based on last year's results. Each group will play 4 round robins instead of the 3 trialled last year.

The Top 4 from each group qualify for the Top 8 to be played on the Sunday. At the end of the Top 8, the Top 4 qualifiers will receive invitations to the 2011 ACT Masters Team, while the Top 2 will play a race to 5 Final for the 2011 ACT Masters Singles Title.

Play commences at 11am on both days, with tables open from 10.30 for practice.

Good luck to all players this weekend.
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Masters_Singles_Round1_Groups.xls

Regards
Chris Jones
ACTEBA Tournament Director

The final round for selection in the 2011 ACT Ladies Team was held this weekend at The Maram. The field included defending Champion Nicole Welsh, as well as former Ladies Singles Champions Cindy Blackmore, Theresa Whitten and Lesieli O’Connor. Backing up from last year’s Top 12 were Michelle Massey, Penny Foudoulis, Heather Robertson and Jennifer Everett. Ann Peffer, Kathy Harmon and Theresa Skipper made welcome returns to the Top 12, while Tammie Ashlin was the sole newcomer.

With 6 of last year’s brilliant Ladies Team in the field, as well as the player who withdrew due to injury, the quality of the Top 12 was as high as ever. With the Top 4 to qualify for next week’s State Title Top 4 Shootout, and the Top 7 to be offered places in the 2011 ACT Ladies State Team, the format for the weekend was four round robins of 11 frames apiece, for a total of 44 frames. That’s a lot of pool…
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[UPDATE]:

I missed a player in the draw for round1, so the groups have changed slightly to accommodate her.

My apologies, but everyone is still at the same venue at the same time, so hopefully this doesn't cause any inconvenience.

Attached are the revised groups.

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Groups for Round 1 of the 2011 Ladies Singles are now available:

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Ladies_Singles_Round1_Groups.xls

Play commences at 11am, tables will be open from 10.30.

Good luck to all competitors!

2011 ACTEBA Ladies Doubles Champions

Cindy Blackmore & Nicole Welsh

Congratulations to Cindy and Nicole on their 5th consecutive Ladies Doubles title, and their 9th overall as a pair. Cindy also boasts a further 5 titles with other partners, while Nicole has won all nine of her doubles titles with Cindy. It was hard to see these two hall of famers being topped this weekend, but as it unfolded, they didn’t have it all their own way.
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