Event 5 - 9-Ball Tour 2022 - Leicester Rileys

Welcome to the fifth event of the 9-Ball Tour 2022, being held at the newly refurbished Rileys Sports Bar in Leicester (UK).

This will be the fifth of 7 events, leading to a Grand Final eighth event near the end of 2022.

To qualify for entry to the Grand Final, please visit www.cueballpromotions.co.uk/events/9-ball-tour-2022 to see the criteria.

We will be doing the draw on Wednesday 6th July at approximately 7.30pm at Rileys Leicester, and it will be aired live on Facebook. Tune in to see who you will face in the group stages.

All players are required to arrive by 10:45am. Doors will be open from 10am with the tournament starting promptly at 11am.

Players will be able to have a little practice between 10am and 11am (pending table availability). Although on a first come first served basis, please share this table-time with your fellow players.

For players that haven't arrived by 11am, if you are 15 minutes late (11.15am) then we will have to give your opponent a 2 rack head-start.

If you are 30 minutes late (11.30am) then your first group game will be forfeited to your opponent.

We apologise in advance for these rules, however, we do have a very jam-packed day of games ahead of us and we need to keep to schedule to avoid delays. We thank you in advance for your co-operation.

The format will be a group stage, followed by a 16-player single elimination.

The group stage will consist of 8 groups, each with 4 players. The top 2 players of each group will advance.

Now that we have our ranking system in place, the top f8 players of our overall ranking will be seeded and take a place in each of the 8 groups, with the remaining 24 players randomly drawn (on Wednesday 6th July).

Following on from the group stage on the event day, we will do a random draw to determine the last 16 single-elimination matches. The 1st placed players will play the 2nd placed players and we will randomly draw each half live on the day.

Group stage matches will be races to 5 & single-elimination matches will be races to 7 all the way to the final.

Alternate breaking will form the basis of the entire tournament. We would prefer that players rack their own rack.

We will be utilising the "Shark Rack" racking template for this event.

The racking rules are - the 1 ball at the top, the 9-ball on the spot and the 2-ball at the back. All other balls can be racked anywhere else.

There will be no 3-point rule.

We believe in good sportsmanship amongst players, and we wish for all players to exercise professionalism throughout their games. If there is a dispute, please call one of the tournament directors to your table. To avoid potential disputes, if you request for a tournament director to watch a shot in case of a potential foul, please request so before the shot is played.

All scoring will be tracked via Cuescore - there will be a tablet at every table for score tracking. If there are any problems with the technology, please give one of the tournament directors a shout.

Finally, a big thank you to Rileys for providing their venue and tables for our events, along with their bar and food services.

If there are any other questions, please drop us a message on our Facebook Page.

Side Events:-

Break and Dish (Starting Pot = £100)

If you are unaware of how this event works, please come and see one of the tournament directors and we will explain. This will take place before the last 16 single-elimination matches.

In Event 4, Tommy Donlon was picked out, and he showed his class by applying a great break and running out the entire rack including a couple of tricky positional shots. He won the entire pot of £300, so we will be starting fresh in Event 5 with £100 added by Cueball Promotions to get the pot going.

We look forward to seeing you all on Sunday morning!

The Cueball Promotions Team.