The 2005 Ladies Pool Championships will take place at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth on Friday 4th November 2005 competing for a share in the £1,600 prize fund, with prize money paid down to the last 16 players.

Entry is restricted to EPA cardholders only.

The draw has now been completed and is available online. This will be posted out to all entrants during the next week.
Play will commence at 9.00am on 4th November and it is intended to complete the tournmament on that day

The Draw

The draw has now been published for the Mens and Ladies Individuals, with play commencing in both tournaments at 6.30pm on Friday 4th November.

There are scheduled to be 96 teams at Great Yarmouth and the team draw is expected later this month.

Teams are asked to note that any teams found flouting the entry requirements will be evicted from the tournament. To date the Tournament Director has investigated and removed three teams. Further investigations are ongoing.

Ladies Individual Draw --------- Mens Individual Draw

The Interleague Knockout Cup is now completed for another year and the Tournament Director, Tom Fahy, has released his final report along with an update of the rankings.

Links to all the pages are listed below for your convenience.

Round Robin Draw & Results
Last 32
Timetable
Tournament Overview
Team Rankings
Final Report
Images

The Interleague Knockout Cup is now well underway on this fine sunny Saturday (8th October) at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth. 96 teams battle it out to get a place in the last 32. A draw takes place for the last 32 during the morning so teams do not know who they will meet at this stage.

Saturday will be completed down to the last 16 which will then recommence on Sunday at 9am. This evening will see the semi finals of the Hardy & Hansons Professional Challenge starting at 8pm, followed by the Hardy & Hansons final at 10pm.

Links to all the pages are listed below, and results will be updated at regular intervals. First results from the teams are not expected much before 11am.

Round Robin Draw & Results
Last 32
Timetable
Tournament Overview
Team Rankings

The EPA Amateur Pool Championships are being held at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth starting today Thursday 6th October with completion tomorrow Friday 7th October 2005. Players are competing for a share in the £5,200 prize fund, with prize money paid down to the last 32 players.

Results are being updated at regular intervals during the event.

The draw and Results

A list has now been published of teams and individuals who have qualified so far for Great Yarmouth over the weekend of 5th-6th November. The draw itself for the events will not be published until late October.

There are scheduled to be 96 teams at Great Yarmouth and accommodation forms for teams qualified so far have been posted out.

Teams are asked to note that any teams found flouting the entry requirements will be evicted from the tournament. To date the Tournament Director has investigated and removed three teams. Further investigations are ongoing.

Qualifying Teams and Individuals

It's here, hope you are all packed and ready to go!!, It's October and that means it's time for the K.O. Cup

From Thursday we start the extended Interleague weekend with the National Singles championship and by Friday we will know who it will be this year.

Once that has finished the Interleague takes centre stage.

Everything you need to know about the weekend is now on the web site, so if you don't know the following documents are there for you to have a look at before you arrive to give you a flavour of what to expect.

The Interleague Knockout Cup round robin draw
The timetable for the weekend
The quarter final draw for the Hardys & Hansons professional challenge
Carl Morris and Andy Breen Charity Challenge
Interleague 2005 ranking list
My overview on every group and every match (always good for a laugh)

On top off all that we will have England youth V England U21's on Friday night and if we can arrange it England men V England U21's on Saturday

To those of you who can't make for whatever the reason from the teams that were replaced, (nothing personal, I have a job to do and I hope to see you in April) the teams that did not get an invite (again I hope to see you in April),

The County & Regional officials who made sure we have another full to the rafters Interleague event a big thank you, I hope everyone outside the initial loop realises how much work is put in by the county officials and in some cases Regional officials to make sure all you have to do is turn up with your cue and play.

We owe Vauxhall's in general and Vicky in particular a thank you for making sure you have a bed to sleep on and excellent facilities in which to play Pool

I have seen many people in our sport from local league players right up to the top professionals use the tag "the legend" but there is only one true legend and that is STAN "THE MAN" GRANT who will be working from Tuesday night to make sure that the legendary Yarmouth tables we will be playing on are once again in tip top condition

Finally a very big thank you to the 96 captains who have made sure that their teams were booked in in time

Tom Fahy - Tournament Director

The EPA Amateur Pool Championships are to be held at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth over Thursday 6th to Friday 7th October 2005 with players competing for a share in the £5,200 prize fund, with prize money paid down to the last 32 players.

ID cards must be produced when you register or you may not be allowed to play
A dress code is in operation. Please read your acceptance letter
Players who do not adhere to the dress code will be required to change, and lose 1 frame for each 10 mins away from the table
Players who are late to the table when called will lose 1 frame for each 10 minute period from the time the match is announced

The full draw for the event has now been released

Please Note - the draw has been amended since 1st issue due to an administrative error.

The National Youth Championships take place over the weekend of 15th/16th October at the Green Baize Pool Club, Tontine Street, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.

Entry forms are now available for the two categories of under 16 and under 18.

Under 16's Entry Form (Word Doc 28k) ................................... Under 18's Entry Form (Word Doc 28k)

The annual Home Internationals were completed last weekend (Friday 16th to Sunday 18th September). This year they were hosted by the Scottish Eightball Pool Federation and were played at the Aberdeen City Hotel, 43/45 Market Street, Aberdeen AB11 5EL.

The SEPF have set up a website specifically for this event with full results of the weekends play.

Congratulations go to the England Squads for sweeping the board with Mens Team - England, Mens Individual - Darren Appleton, Ladies Team - England, Ladies Individual - Barbara Taylor, Under 21 Team - England, Junior Team - England and Junior Individual - Jordan Church.

With all 96 teams now safely booked into Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth, the draw for the group stage has been released earlier than usual, so if you want to know who are playing take a look at the draw.

The release of the draw is a sure sign that that the K.O. Cup is just around the corner. Also planned for the weekend is the National Men's Singles championship with lots of interleague players entering, the weekend's fun will start on Thursday 6th October.

On top of that there are also the finals of the Hardy & Hanson's Professional challenge trophy, as well as England youth and the U21's in action over the weekend.

Triangle will be going to retain the title they won last year whilst Trent Trophies will be looking to take back the trophy they believe is theirs. Imperial will want to get in on the act as well. Dawley, Ollerton, Brighton, Sun Valley & P.J's Stourbridge are just some of the teams who will be going all out to stop the big three from having it all their own way.

There will also be a number of new teams such as Preston City (Lancashire) sampling the unique atmosphere of the National Knock Out Cup for the first time and some old friends returning to the national stage after a long absence like Stockport (G.M.C.)

To all teams involved good luck and get ready to write another chapter in the annuals of the Interleague knock out cup

The annual Home Internationals start today (Friday 16th September) and run until Sunday 18th September. This year they are being hosted by the Scottish Eightball Pool Federation and are being played at the Aberdeen City Hotel, 43/45 Market Street, Aberdeen AB11 5EL.

The SEPF have set up a website specifically for this event, and it is expected that results will be posted at intervals.

There will be soon a list of teams and individuals published who have qualified so far for Great Yarmouth over the weekend of 5th-6th November. The draw itself for the events will not be published until nearer the time.

Details of all individual second round matches have been posted out. There are 13 matches for the Ladies and 9 matches for the men.

If individuals do not receive a second round game then they are through to Great Yarmouth.

There will be 64 men and 32 Ladies at the finals. First rounds at Yarmouth will commence at 6.30pm on Friday the 4th November, all individuals will be informed of this by post also.

There is only one round for the teams, The first round was posted out some weeks ago and results are now coming in. There are planned to be 96 teams at Great Yarmouth and accommodation forms for teams qualified so far have been posted out.

The EPA event and competition calendar for 2006 has now been released. Of course events are subject to change depending on circumstances, but the majority of the events and dates listed are confirmed.

Event / Competiton Calendar

We are now in the run in to the knockout cup which will be played out over the extended weekend of 6th/7th/8th/9th October 2005 and the event has now entered the booking in phase. Once all the teams are booked in the draw will be made and released here first.

The Ladies National Interleague Cup held in November has just entered the team registration process and at the time of writing there are 32 ladies teams entered. and in a fortnight the booking forms for the event will be sent out. If all 32 teams attend it will be the best ever attendance figures.

The provisional timetable of events has now been release and the draw is expected around 3 weeks time along with the draw for the National Singles

For additional info on the above events please email interleaguekocup@epa.org.uk

The 4th UKPool National Ladies Tour of the season took place at Chatham over the weekend of 27th-28th August.

The draw for tour 5 and full results from previous tours are on the links below .

Tour 1 Results ........ Tour 2 Results ......... Tour 3 Results ........ Tour 4 Results ........ Tour 5 Draw

2005 Provisional Rankings ........................................... 2004 Final Rankings

The WEPF World Championships 2006 will see a change of venue, and will be held at the Norbreck Castle Hotel, North Shore, Blackpool over the period 5th to 15th June 2006.

Also it is anticipated that the World Masters will be held at the same venue on the 9th and 10th June
which is in the middle of the World Championships. The World Championships will be run concurrently with the World Masters.

The events will be using 32 tables and both the World Championships and the World Masters will
be bigger events than ever previously held with combined prize funds of over £ 55,000.

It is intended that the ladies and junior events will be much larger than previous with team
events played with more games and over a longer period. The under 21 and wheelchair events
will also be extended.

Televised stages will finalise on Thursday 15th June.

Draw for Individual and Ladies singles is in the post tomorrow, (8/8/05) first class post, all players have been informed of their opponents and those that have received byes have also been informed.

Ladies ; 83 entries. First round 38 matches. 7 byes.
Individual; 136 entries. First round 64 matches. 8 byes.

Deadline date for results is August 28th.
No excuse for late results will be accepted.
No permission will be granted to play matches at a later date.
If deadline date is not met, one or both players will be out of the event.

It is with regret that I have to inform members that Mr Barry Roadley, a past EPA Chairman has sadly passed away.
Although I did not know Barry personally I have heard many respected reports of his tireless and unselfish work with the English Pool Association. Barry served at all levels of our sport and was our Chairman for 6 years.

He will be fondly remembered and sadly missed by many.

Our condolences and thoughts go to his family.

Les Church
Chairman
English Pool Association

Entry forms are now available for the 2005 Ladies Pool Championships at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth on Friday 6th November 2005 competing for a share in the £1,600 prize fund, with prize money paid down to the last 16 players.

Entry forms are available from National, Regional and County Officials, or follow the link below.

Entry is restricted to EPA cardholders only.

Closing Date - Sunday 9th October 2005

Full details and entry form download

This is your opportunity to play in the EPA Amateur Pool Championships at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth over Thursday 6th to Friday 7th October 2005 and to compete for a share in the £5,200 prize fund, with prize money paid down to the last 32 players.

Entry forms are available from National, Regional and County Officials, or follow the link below.

Entry is restricted to EPA cardholders only.

Closing Date - Sunday 11th September 2005

Full details and entry form download

The third UKPool National Ladies Tour of the season took place at Worcester over the weekend of 16th-17th July.

The draw for tour 4 and full results from previous tours are on the links below .

Tour 1 Results ............. Tour 2 Results .............. Tour 3 Results ............. Tour 4 Draw

2005 Provisional Rankings ........................................... 2004 Final Rankings

The WEPF World Championships commenced on Tuesday 31st May at the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, and are now well under way. Entry is free for spectators into all rounds except the televised sessions.

The WEPF full details of teams, individuals, timetable of events, news reports and updating of the results for all the sections is available on the WEPF web site.

Our congratulations go to
Mens Individual - Gareth Potts (Eng), Mens Team - England,
Ladies Individual - Emma Cunningham (N. Ire), Ladies Team - Scotland,
Junior Individual - Jordan Church (Eng), Junior Team - England,
Under 21 Team - England,
Wheelchair Individual - Karl Read (Eng), Wheelchair Team - England A

Full details of the 2005 Champion of Champions are now available with the closing date of 2nd July 2005.

The tournament is open to any EPA affiliated league who may enter their reigning league champion team, with also the option of entering their reigning individual champion in both the mens and ladies categories.

Details --------------------------------------------------- See Archive for last year's tournament winners

Closing Date for Entrants - 2nd JULY 2005

The 2005 Golden Cue tournament takes place at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth over the weekend of 7th-8th May 2005. But of course with pool weekends at Vauxhall Holiday Park, there are always other tournaments taking place and this particular weekend is no exception.

Friday 6th May see's the World Championship Junior Qualifiers playing for two places in the WEPF World Championships. At the same time are the England Under 21 qualifiers and the qualifiers for the World Eight-ball Masters.

Golden Cue - Last 256 -------- Last 128 -------- Last 64 -------- Final 32 -------- Singles Last 64

Congratulations to Morley International A, team winners and John Giles, individual winner

Junior World Qualifiers Results ---------- Under 21 Qualifiers ----------- World Masters Qualifiers Results

The final rounds of the IPA's European Grand Prix also took place over the weekend with Tim Singh winning 9-4 over Darren Appleton in the final.

This is your opportunity to play in the 2005 Wheelchair World Pool Championships by entering the English qualifying stages to be held at McCluskey’s Pool Hall, Derby on 21st May 2005

Four players will win through to join the leading players in the world to compete for the title of World Wheelchair Pool Champion 2005.

Full Details and Entry Form (376k word doc) --------------------------- Closing date for entries - 13th May 2005

The 2005 Golden Cue tournament takes place at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth over the weekend of 7th-8th May 2005.

The final 256 teams are now entered and the draw has been completed.

The Draw

The English qualifying stage is to be held at The Green Baize, Hanley, Stoke on Trent on 30th April 2005 and the draw has now been released.

Two players will win through to the World Championships held in Blackpool, commencing 31st May 2005.

This qualifying stage is only open to players resident in England ........................................... The Draw

World Championships 2005 - Mens Qualifiers

The WEPF qualifiers for the forthcoming World Championships will be held on Sunday 29th, Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st May 2005.

One player will win through for every 32 entries received.

The qualifiers are open to any male who was aged 18 years old on the 1st January 2005 with an entry fee of £40 per day (discounts are available for multiple entries)

Each player is responsible for their own accommodation if required and play will commence at 9.30am on each day of the qualifiers, each qualifier being completed on the day.

Full details and Entry Form -------------------------- Closing date for entries is Saturday 7th May 2005.

The weekend of 9th / 10th April now really gets under way at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth with main event of the weekend, the 2005 National Interleague Championship.
96 teams of 9 players start the day at 9am in the Round Robin section of groups of three. The winners of each group then get drawn into the last 32 and by about 8pm there will be 16 teams left to battle out for the winners prize on Sunday.
Results will be intermittently updated during the day with first results not expected before 11am.

Tournament Description ------Round Robin Draw ------ Draw Overview ------ Last 32 ----- Timetable

To get the weekend’s events get underway at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth, and ironically enough starting on the Thursday afternoon owing to the number of entrants, are the English Qualifiers for the World Eight ball Pool Federation World Championship. This is the event where all the countries cue men can fight it out for the four available spots for non England Squad members in the singles event at the World Championships in Blackpool during May.

The draw is available for the 1st & 2nd Rounds of the World Championship Qualifiers below and results will be updated at regular intervals. The draw from Round 3 onwards will be available on completion of the previous round

Round 1 ---- Round 2 ---- Round 3 ---- Round 4 ---- Round 5 ----- Round 6 ---- Round 7 (Quarter Final)

Well this is what the teams have been waiting for!
The Tournament Director, Tom Fahy has once again produced his lengthy tome of an overview of the progress of teams through the Interleague Championships.

Tom has his belief in how teams will progress, and whatever teams may think, his record on how teams will perform it is backed up by his experience of the tournament and the teams over a number of years. He has been more right than wrong, although teams and players must take a light hearted view of how Tom see's the bloodbath of the round robin section of the tournament.

Tom is always happy to be proved wrong, and of course should an un favoured team do well, he will think twice next time they are out.

Tournament Description ------Interleague Draw ------ Draw Overview

The first UKPool National Ladies Tour of the season took place at Morley International, Leeds over the Easter weekend of 26th - 27th March.

The full results are on the link below along with the draw for Tour 2 at Stoke on Trent on 1st - 2nd May.

Tour 1 Results .......... Tour 2 Draw .......... 2005 Provisional Rankings ........ 2004 Final Rankings

We are now in the run up to the 2005 Interleague Championship event and all the teams are getting ready to do battle once more, as always, the cream of England’s pool players will be in attendance at Vauxhall Holiday Park, the theatre of dreams, for just about every pool player who wants to play at the highest level.

This weekend is not just about the Interleague though; there are two other major events that are played out over the Interleague weekend to make the weekend a bumper event for a number of players for a number of reasons .

To get the weekend’s events get underway, and ironically enough it starts on the Thursday afternoon owing to the number of entrants, with the English Qualifiers for the World Eight ball Pool Federation World Championship. This is the event where all the countries cue men can fight it out for the four available spots for non England Squad members in the singles event at the World Championships in Blackpool during May.

The draw for the Interleague Championship is now available as is the draw for the 1st & 2nd Rounds of the World Championship Qualifiers.

Tournament Description ------Interleague Draw ------ Mens Qualifiers 1 ------ Mens Qualifiers 2

The World Masters 8 Ball Pro-Am will be held in Blackpool, England on the 10th-11th-12th June 2005 played to WEPF World Rules.
Professional and Amateur players from across the world will be competing for the title, 8 BALL WORLD MASTER

£24,000 Guaranteed Prize Fund

Your chance to attend the World Championships, to see the Televised Finals, and compete with the worlds top players in the World Masters Pro-Am afterwards.

Accomodation is plentiful in Blackpool, and is not a condition of entry.

Full entry details will be released shortly from the promoters.
English Pool Association, World Eight-ball Pool Federation & International Professional Pool Players Association.
Information now available is that there will be two ways to enter, through a qualifiers held at Great Yarmouth in May, and through your county association internal qualifiers.

Prize money in the 8 Ball Master & the 888.com World Championships in Blackpool, a huge - £55,000

The first UKPool National Ladies Tour of the season takes place at Morley International, Leeds over the weekend of 26th - 27th March with a starting field of 60 players.

The draw is now available and was completed at the Intercounty Finals, Great Yarmouth on Sunday 6th March.

Tour 1 Draw ....... 2005 Provisional Rankings ........ 2004 Final Rankings ......... 2003 Final Rankings

This is your opportunity to play in the WEPF 2005 Junior World Championships by entering the England qualifying stage to be held at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth on Friday 6th May 2005.

Two players will win through to the World Championships held in Blackpool, commencing 31st May 2005.

Full Details Here ........................................... Closing Date - Monday 18th April 2005

The National Intercounty Championships commence on Saturday 5th March with completion around 3pm on Sunday 6th March. With eight teams per section, playing in round robin groups of 4 on Saturday it promises to be a long day for the teams involved.

The draw for the various sections took place around 10pm on the evening of Friday 4th March. The draw and results are available on the links below.

Congratulations to the winners: Mens A - Lancashire, Mens B - Staffordshire, Ladies - Surrey, Youth - Suffolk

MENS A SECTION .................... MENS B SECTION .................... LADIES SECTION ....................... YOUTH SECTION

The 2005 England Team Trials took place on Friday March 4th at the usual venue of Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth.After an extremely long day our congratulations go to the following qualifiers.

MEN - Dean Wisher, Darren Suchley, Neil Davey, Neil Toms, Steve Mullan, Keith Brewer, Bayden Jackson & Jez Graham

LADIES - Kerry-Ann Hunt, Louise Elvin, Liesa Conlin, Sue Ramsbottom, Anne-Louise Eaton, Lindsay Lloyd, Donna Williams & Hazel Dabrowski

YOUTH - Jamie Clarke, Rob Butterworth, Gary Mills, Steven Petty, Lee Harrison, Phil Parkin, Jamie Fay & Kyle Pickett

The draw and results for the qualifiers may be viewed on the links below.

MENS QUALIFIERS .................... LADIES QUALIFIERS .................... YOUTH QUALIFIERS

Play in the Hilton Singles Open with a prize fund of £5,000 - Play in the Hilton Team Classic with a prize fund of £10,000
Stay for 2 nights at the 4 star Birmingham Metropole

Your opportunity to play in the same arena as some of the worlds top players who will be competing in the International Pool Tour whilst you are playing in the Hilton Open. Open Event limited to 256 entries and NOT AVAILABLE to International Pool Tour players

Over the Easter Weekend of 26th to 28th March 2005 ----------------- Closing date for entries - Monday 14th March

Full Details and Entry Form (300k PDF file)

It was a weekend for the favourites at the Universities Pool Council Women’s Championships, held over the weekend of 25th to 27th February at McCuskys, Spondon, Derbyshire.

Report and Results

Most of you will know Anne as the lady table engineer at Gt Yarmouth, the IPA Tour and just about everywhere that we hold Major tournaments.

Anne has not enjoyed good health for quite some time but she would never let on or stop what she enjoyed doing, making sure that the tables are as perfect as can be however long it takes. Most people turn up at events without a thought as to how the tables arrived, lights fitted arena set up and ready to play.the chances are that Stan and Anne have worked through the night to ensure things are ready.

Anne will be sadly missed.

Our thoughts are with Stan and their family.

Les Church
Chairman
English Pool Association (08/02/05)

Messages of condolence may be sent to the webmaster for adding to the condolence page

This is your opportunity to play in the WEPF 2005 Ladies World Championships by entering the England qualifying stage to be held at The Green Baize, Hanley, Stoke on Trent on 30th April 2005.

One player will win through to the World Championships held in Blackpool, commencing 31st May 2005.

This qualifying stage is only open to players resident in England ........................................... Full Details Here

Closing Date - Friday 8th April 2005

This is your opportunity to play in the WEPF 2005 World Championships by entering the England qualifying stages to be held at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth over the period 7th/8th April 2005.

Four players will win through to the World Championships held in Blackpool, commencing 31st May 2005.

This qualifying stage is only open to players resident in England ........................................... Full Details Here

Closing Date - Friday 4th March 2005

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There will be further qualifying stages held in Blackpool over the weekend of 28th-30th May, which will be open to players from any country.