Cuemakers International 9 Ball Championship 2015

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Cuemakers International 9 Ball Championship 2015
Fourth Annual
Charity Benefit Tournament 2015


**Open to all active recognized Cuemakers.**


Charity Benefit Tournament
April 16th - 18th 2015

Location: The Super Billiards Expo
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
Oaks, Pennsylvania
$50 Donation Entry Fee
Race to Five
Single elimination
Express 9 Ball rules
Alternate breaks.
Rack your own.
9 ball does not count on break.
Finals: Race to Seven.

Races may be raised to seven with smaller field.

All matches will be scheduled so those attending or exhibiting at the Expo will know what time to be there for the match. Tournament charts will be put up in booth #470 near the tournament location at 11:15am Thursday. The 1st round match should start by noon. Almost everyone should play once Thursday.

All entry fees and donations will go to benefit the Galilean Children’s Home.
They are located in Liberty, Kentucky and have provided help to thousands of disabled children from around the world over the last few decades.

There will be a nice trophy for the International 9 Ball Champion of Cuemakers and runner up. There will also be some cuemaking products given as prizes for the top places. But all those eliminated including even last place will still get some product samples as a concession prize. The smallest retail value concession prize will be over $30. Our sponsors so far are Allen Hopkins, Cue Man Billiard Products, ICA, and Mad Man Tips.

**To qualify to play in this tournament you must be an active recognized Cuemaker. If you are currently building cues and are listed in the printed edition of the Blue Book of Pool Cues or are a Cuemaker member of the ACA or ICA you qualify. Many other cuemakers are qualified and will be considered on a case by case basis until April 1st 2015. If you do not meet one of the above criteria we encourage you to join one of the above associations to assure qualification before April 1st.**

This tournament is limited to the first 32 qualified Cuemakers who sign up.

Entry/donations need to be made out to the Galilean Children’s Home & mailed to
Chris Hightower 444 Flint Hill Road Aragon, GA 30104 USA
Contact Chris Hightower 770-684-7004 or cueman@cuesmith.com for more info.
Please let us know by phone or email that you are signing up and let us know if you plan to play or just donate. Last year several just donated and did not play which made the tournament chart a little mixed up.

If you are playing or not and want to make a donation to the Childrens Home directly just visit the link below and look at the right side of the page for a paypal donation link. We would like to know who all sends a donation directly so we can see how much this event helped raise for the home. Just drop us a PM or email letting us know. If you are playing send me a copy of the paid receipt. You might want to make sure you are qualified to play before donating.

http://www.galileanhome.org/

Every year we had people donating more than their entry fee so we were very pleased with the final results for the first three years and hope to raise more this year. This is a great cause and a chance to have some fun, play some pool and win some great prizes.

God Bless and Happy Cue building!
Chris Hightower
 
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If any of you guys want to play and are not ICA or ACA members or in the printed Blue Book, drop me a PM and I will find out if you can play.
 
Here is the field so far.

Justin Hightower (Defending Champion)
Dennis Dieckman
Rob Paul
Chris Hightower
John Rocker
Jonathan Minteer
Roy Mason
Andy Gilbert

Let's fill this 32 man bracket up as we have access to two tables this year if we need them.

Dennis Dieckman bought himself a Diamond bar box and is practicing hard and says he is taking Justin down this year. :smile:
 
David Rowell just signed up, so Justin will have some very stiff competition this year. David is a former US OPEN Amateur Champion.

Here is the field so far.

Justin Hightower (Defending Champion)
Dennis Dieckman
Rob Paul
Chris Hightower
John Rocker
Jonathan Minteer
Roy Mason
Andy Gilbert
David Rowell
 
It is time for all you independant cuemakers to sign up.
A lot of you AZ guys that are not ACA or ICA or Blue Book members are still qualified.
PM or email me if interested.

We will try our best to work around the tournament schedules of the other events if you are playing in other events.

Here is our list so far

Justin Hightower (Defending Champion)
Dennis Dieckman
Rob Paul
Chris Hightower
John Rocker
Jonathan Minteer
Roy Mason from Canada
Andy Gilbert
David Rowell
Curtis Robertson
Chris Nitti
Charlie McKay from Canada
 
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It is time for all you independant cuemakers to sign up. I will extend the deadline to the time we leave for the expo. It is probably too late to mail your entry, so sign up now and pay at the show.

A lot of you AZ guys that are not ACA or ICA or Blue Book members are still qualified.
PM or email me if interested.

We will try our best to work around the tournament schedules of the other events if you are playing in other events.

Here is our list so far

Justin Hightower (Defending Champion)
Dennis Dieckman
Rob Paul
Chris Hightower
John Rocker
Jonathan Minteer
Roy Mason from Canada
Andy Gilbert
David Rowell
Curtis Robertson
Chris Nitti
Charlie McKay from Canada
John LaLonde (1st years runner up)
 
We have had almost a 1000 views and none of the AZ cuemakers have signed up that were not contacted directly by me. Also no donations have been made to the Childrens Home by AZ members who are not able to compete.

Come on guys lets play some pool, have some fun and raise some money for the childrens home.
 
I had another great time at The Rally. I got to talk to Chris and Justin and got to know both of them a little better. Great people.

My highlight though was meeting Dennis Dieckman. I had seen him at previous Rallies but never got the nerve to introduce myself. He was staying at the same hotel as I was and we got to talking around the fire pit. We then talked a few other times and I must say he is a gentleman and a true personality. I look forward to seeing everyone again next year.
 
I had another great time at The Rally. I got to talk to Chris and Justin and got to know both of them a little better. Great people.

My highlight though was meeting Dennis Dieckman. I had seen him at previous Rallies but never got the nerve to introduce myself. He was staying at the same hotel as I was and we got to talking around the fire pit. We then talked a few other times and I must say he is a gentleman and a true personality. I look forward to seeing everyone again next year.

It was good to get to visit with you also. You played great again this year and almost won the thing. I will be sending out the press release in the next few days.
 
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