Mezz Cues Baltic pool tour - stage II (women)

Tournament regulations:

Dress code

Qualifying rounds: The dress code is nice and tidy pants or jeans in one color, polo shirt or long sleeved shirt with collar. No untidy clothing is allowed.

Play offs: Dress code B.

The head referee reserves the right to decide on the clothing. Additionally, the organizers reserve the right to make exceptions on clothing based on the circumstances, e.g. sweater for cold pool hall, short smart pants for very hot weather etc. All the exceptions will be announced no later than 2 days prior to start of the matches.

Entry fee (optional)

All players CAN pay their entry fees by transfer to below details:

IBAN: LT273250007823857496

Receiver: Gintaras Petrovas

Purpose: Entry fee for BPL xxxxx (xxxx means division, i.e. open, mini, senior or all together or separate)

Paying at a tournament desk on the day of the tournament is 5€ extra.

Time out

Time out can be taken at any time in a match in between the racks. Time out cannot be more than 5 minutes and no smoking and drinking alcohol during time out is allowed. Time out can be taken by any player.

Alcohol, smoking, snuff, chewing tobaco or any other drugs

It is not allowed to use any of these drugs during the match. It is not allowed to use alcohol during whole tournament day. As time out is part of the match it is not allowed to use any of these during time out.

Mobile phones, smart watches

It is not allowed to use mobile phones or smart watches during the matches, unless smart watch is on flight mode. If such a situation occurs, participant will get a warning at first occasion and at 2nd - penalty is 1 rack to opponent.

Unsportsmanlike behavior

Unsportsmanlike behavior will not be tolerated and will be evaluated by the head referee and penalized accordingly to the WPA tournament regulations.

Protest against referee decision

There might be some situations where athlete will not agree with referees decision. In these circumstances protest can be given by an athlete in writing no later than 3 days since the situation happened and 100 Eur paid at the front desk as a protest analyze fee. If after investigation protest is valid to athlete side, fee is returned and valid actions to be taken. In case the athletes protest is not satisfied the 100 Eur fee will not be returned to the athlete.

Tournament page and setup system

Tournament will be running in www.cuescore.com and all tables for main event will have tablets for live scoring and result entering. Players will need to update their scores on the tablets and at the end FINISH the match by pressing the button.

Late cancellations

Participant has to pay an entry fee if on the day of the tournament or after draw they cancel their participation.

30 minutes before the match

Each participant has to be 30 minutes before the match is scheduled as ther might be that the match will be called earlier.





Women:

Name

Mezz Cues Baltic 9 Ball Tour women division

Description

Women division will be played on the first day of the tournament as early as possible.

Saturday

9 AM

Player type

Singles

Tournament type

Round robin qualification and single depending from amount of participants

Game type

9 ball

Race to

5 in a group stages, race to 7 in single knock out and race to 9 in semi and final.

Bracket size

max 16 participants
Tables

As many as possible

Break format

Alternate break

Rules

WPA

Entry fee

50 Eur

Draw type

Best players according to MCBPL2024 stage I rankings will be seeded in a groups and first places from the groups will be randomly seeded in a single knock out.

Draw to Single KO

Depending on amount of participants we want to leave a free choice to us how many players will qualify to Single Eliminiation, but current thought is not les than 50%. For example 16 players in total and we want to let 12 players to single KO. 2024 is a year where we want women to play as much as possible.

Tournament Director and Referee

Gintaras Petrovas

Event Head Referee

Payouts (guaranteed - in 2024 we will give away all entry fees in women group and additionaly add 300Eur)

Place

Payouts

1st

45%+150 Eur

2nd

25%+70 Eur

3rdx2

15%+40 Eur

Total:

100%+300 Eur

Prize money will be paid during award ceremony only.