ENGLISH POOL ASSOCIATION

ALL EPA EVENTS POSTPONED

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Update 01 July 2020

The Sport and Recreation Alliance has informed us that the DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) has advised that fitness and sport activity should not take place in indoor venues which are able to reopen from 4 July. Therefore, pool clubs would be able to open their bars/restaurants but no sporting activity would be able to take place inside.

The EPA is currently following Government guidance and will update you as and when further guidance is issued.

Due to the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and following Government advice,
ALL EPA events will be postponed UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

This will apply to ALL events organised by the EPA including Intercounty, Interleague, Competitions etc.

For now, all entries into the Mens World Championship Qualifiers have been transferred to the Mens National Amateur event due to take place 8/9 October at Vauxhall Holiday Park at the Interleague Weekend.

The 2019 Interleague Finals which were due to be played 28/29 March are now scheduled to be played in place of the Interleague KO on 10/11 October and the 2020 Interleague KO is now scheduled for the weekend of 5/6 December 2020. The Golden Cue competition which was due to take place on 5/6 December is now cancelled for this year.

Please bear with us in these difficult times for us all.

Further announcements will be made here.

Notices
Coronavirus Update (Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:56:21 +0100) The Sport and Recreation Alliance has informed us that the DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) has advised that fitness and sport activity should not take place in indoor venues which are able to reopen from 4 July. Therefore, pool clubs would be able to open their bars/restaurants but no sporting activity would be able to take place inside. The EPA is currently following Government guidance and will update you as and when further guidance is issued.

EPA Tour 4 - Daventry (Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:28:11 +0100) Unfortunately due to recent Government guidance the EPA have postponed Tour 4 for the safety and health of all our players and officials. We are optimistic that Tour 5 may well be able to go ahead as planned at the end of October. All players will be contacted shortly.

England Men's Senior - Friendly - August 2019 (Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:14:54 +0100) England Seniors Manager, Ian Ingham, has drawn attention to a YouTube video supplied by Paul Goddard showing a recording of a friendly competition which took place in August last year. Here is what Paul said... "In August 2019 I filmed the EPA's (English Pool Association) Men's Seniors Team during a weekend of Friendly matches at Top Q Snooker and Pool Club in Gloucester. Kind permission was given by Dawn Zimbalatti and Ady Williams who own the club, also special thanks to the EPA for allowing this to happen." View the video ... Click ...

2020 Champion of Champions - Deadline Extended (Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:44:18 +0100) Due to the current circumstances the entry deadline date for the 2020 Champion of Champions has been extended to September 13th.

Interleague Finals, KO and Golden Cue 2020 (Sun, 24 May 2020 17:51:52 +0100) A National Meeting was held 23 May 2020. Subject to the current restrictions on large social gatherings being relaxed sufficiently enough for us all to safely resume playing pool at both the Interleague and the Interleague KO cup along with the safety of the teams, captains/organisers/staff and individual players ongoing safety not being compromised, the following was agreed... The 2019 Interleague Finals which were due to be played 28/29 March are now scheduled to be played in place of the Interleague KO on 10/11 October and the 2020 Interleague KO would be scheduled for the weekend of 5/6 December 2020. The Golden Cue competition which was due to take place on 5/6 December is now cancelled for this year. Due to the exceptional circumstances, it has been agreed that the greatest flexibility will be allowed in selecting players and teams for the Interleague events. Further guidance has been sent to County Secretaries.

Buy Your Own Supreme Pool Table! (Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:33:57 +0000) Did you know that it is possible to purchase your own Supreme pool table directly from one of the EPA Pool Tour events (order in advance). Contact Bob Love on treasurer@epa.org.uk, Tel: 07720 852310 for more details.

Online Entry Forms Now Available (Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:46:16 +0100) Online entry forms are currently available for the following events ... 2020 Events EPA Mens Singles (19 September) - Closing date: 11 September 2020 Champion of Champions Finals (13-15 November) - Closing date: 13 September 2020 Seniors Singles (26 September) - Closing date: 18 September 2020 Mens National Amateur Singles (8/9 October) - Closing date: 27 September 2020 Interleague Flyer One (8/9 October) - Closing date: 27 September 2020 Ladies National Singles (12 November) - Closing date: 1 November 2020 Junior U16 National Singles (28 November) - Closing date: 8 November 2020 Junior U18 National Singles (29 November) - Closing date: 8 November 2020 ... Click ...