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It is, after all, why they ‘seed’ players into brackets, right? If they didn’t place the top-notch competitors at opposite ends of a 128-player bracket, like the one they’re using at the 2025 Diamond Open Players Championship, the event’s two best competitors (whomever you may consider them to...

AFTER THE 11-day extravaganza that was the Predator European Pool Championships, the action in Tallinn continued today with the start of the Predator Euro Tour ARC ESTONIAN OPEN in open and women’s divisions. It’s the second event of six in the 2025 Predator Euro Tour series and got underway on...

Mosconi Cup captain and teammate play back to back, side by side in last match of the night It was a great way for the first night of the 2025 Diamond Open at the Super Billiards Expo to end. Among the 16 matches that comprised the tournament’s second-round, final set of Thursday, April 10...

The Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is proud to announce that Roy Pastor, a distinguished Master Instructor with the Professional Billiard Instructors Association (PBIA), has been named the recipient of the 2024 BCA President’s Award. As part of the BCA General Membership Meeting held in...

At first glance, the 55-entrant field at the $10,000-added, 2025 McDermott Open was the kind of star-studded gathering that made you wonder about the competitors who weren’t there. Like the current top five in our 2025 AZBilliards Money Leaderboard, for example; Joshua Filler, Fedor Gorst, Shane...

AFTER 11 DAYS of the best in pool, the final four final champions were crowned as the 9-ball division played out at the PREDATOR European Pool Championships in Tallinn. Casper Matikainen (FIN), Pia Filler (GER), Jouni Tahti (FIN) and Yuma Dorner (GER) were all crowned Predator European 9-ball...

During its general membership meeting in Las Vegas, NV., on March 18, 2025, the Billiard Congress of America announced the results of its 2025- 2026 Board of Directors elections, which are as follows: Category 1 (Manufacturer/Distributor) • Bill Dunne (Championship, LLC), three-year term •...

THE TWO TEAM tournaments concluded as the final day of the PREDATOR European Pool Championships got underway. Both women’s and men’s matches were Germany against Austria and it was spoils shared as the Germans triumphed in the men’s final and Austria took down the women’s title. The men’s event...

I am thinking the same way. I do want to go through and add scoring to them though. It might be fun to pick one or two of them and dub some commentary over the top, but definitely not all of them. Thanks, Mike

OK, this has gone on long enough. @gregcantrall Please stop!!

I'm curious as to how some of the Accu-Stats fans feel about this one. I am finally starting to get some of the really old Accu-Stats tapes digitized and some of these are from events before Pat was doing commentary on tape (late 80's). How important would commentary be on this old content to...

As we noted back in September ’22, when 14-year-old Lucas Kilgore from Maryland won his first regional tour title, the youngster had not been among the junior competitors who’d followed Ra Hanna’s Junior International Championship series of events as it moved about the country. He chose instead...

The part where you offered to leave Dave alone.

AS THE PREDATOR European Pool Championships approach their final day, the fields of the men’s, women’s and Under 23’s 9-ball tournaments are down to the final four. There was plenty of drama in a long-day’s play and they return tomorrow afternoon to determine the destination of the medals. In...

Gonna hold you to that.

Liz Taylor goes undefeated, downs Reagan Wallace twice to claim Ladies title After winning two straight Billiards Education Foundation Junior National Championships in 2015 and 2016, competing both times in the ’14 and Under’ division, Virginia’s Nathan Childress took a beat or two before...

9-BALL IS THE final individual discipline at the PREDATOR European Pool Championships and there were multiple rounds of play in all four categories today. Play reconvenes tomorrow in the single elimination stages with the men at the last 64 single elimination point, the women and Under 23s at...

THERE WERE FOUR champions crowned this evening at the Kalevi Hall in Tallinn as the 8-ball tournaments played to a conclusion at the PREDATOR European Pool Championships. There were gold medals for Jasmin Ouschan (Austria) and Stefan Casper (Germany) in the women’s and men’s, respectively, while...

Laura O’Neal goes undefeated to win Natural Born Women tournament The chaos management of pool tournaments with 200 or more entrants has got the government, multi-national corporations, big Broadway musicals and your average family of 12 beat, hands down. While the comparisons listed tend to...