Eight boys in two divisions qualify for Predator World Junior Championships in Austria
South Carolina’s Landon Hollingsworth traveled to Quincy, IL, about five hours south of Chicago last week (June 24-30), in pursuit of what was not exactly, but actually his fifth straight BEF Junior National Championship title. It’s complicated.
Hollingsworth had won the 18U and 16U Boys 9-ball divisions in 2021 and last year, though aged out of the 16U Boys division, he won his second 18U Boys 9-ball title and laid claim to the Junior Nationals’ first 10-ball title. In that sense, he was looking for his fifth. But along the way, he and others had established an unofficial sense that the title that ‘counted’ (of course, they all count) was the one that was a qualifier for the World Junior Championships that generally follows the US event by a few months. In 2021 and last year, that title was awarded to Landon as winner of the 18U Boys 9-Ball event. This year, applying a European standard that’s been set for the 2023 Predator World Junior Championships, scheduled for October 19-22 in Klagenfurt, Austria, the World Qualifier in the USA became the 18U Boys 10-Ball event.
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South Carolina’s Landon Hollingsworth traveled to Quincy, IL, about five hours south of Chicago last week (June 24-30), in pursuit of what was not exactly, but actually his fifth straight BEF Junior National Championship title. It’s complicated.
Hollingsworth had won the 18U and 16U Boys 9-ball divisions in 2021 and last year, though aged out of the 16U Boys division, he won his second 18U Boys 9-ball title and laid claim to the Junior Nationals’ first 10-ball title. In that sense, he was looking for his fifth. But along the way, he and others had established an unofficial sense that the title that ‘counted’ (of course, they all count) was the one that was a qualifier for the World Junior Championships that generally follows the US event by a few months. In 2021 and last year, that title was awarded to Landon as winner of the 18U Boys 9-Ball event. This year, applying a European standard that’s been set for the 2023 Predator World Junior Championships, scheduled for October 19-22 in Klagenfurt, Austria, the World Qualifier in the USA became the 18U Boys 10-Ball event.
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