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The World Billiards Championship for the year 2011 has now been announced and will take place over the week of October 24 to 30, 2011, with the venue as the same of last year i.e. Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, UK.

 

The event will again be run as a joint initiative of WPBSA / EBOS initiative with same time format, with few modifications as follows:

  • The event will drop the word "Professional" from the title, and will now be termed an "open" event, known simply as the WPBSA/EBOS World Billiards Championship.

  • Direct entry will be open to all, upon payment of the required entry fee of £100.

The Schedule of the championship on a presumption of 40 entries would be

 

1st Group Stage (Monday 24th & Tuesday 25th)

  • Round Robin Matches (Group Stage) 8 x 5 players per group - 90 minutes duration each.

  • Eight seeds only, with those players that reached at least the quarter finals of last years' event being seeded 1-8 (1 seed per group). Open draw for the remainder of entrants into both group and position placement

Top two qualifiers from each group will qualify for the 2nd Group Stage.

 

2nd Group Stage (Wednesday 26th & Thursday 27th)

  • Round Robin Matches (2nd Group Stage) 4 x 4 players per group – 120 minutes duration each.

  • Group placement decided by way of performance (qualification position) from the 1st Group stage

The top two from each group will qualify for the Quarter Finals.

 

Quarter Finals (Friday 28th) - 1 session of 2 hours 30 minutes

Semi- Finals (Saturday 29th) - 2 sessions of 2 hours each

Final (Sunday 30th) - 2 sessions of 2 hours 30 minutes each

 

Entry packs will be released and distributed on the Friday, July 15, 2011, with the closing date for receipt of applications being set as the Wednesday, August 31 2011.

 

The draw will be prepared by 5th September 2011

 

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