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| | | South African Blackball Awarded Protea Colours |
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 |   South Africa's National BlackBall Federation has been given the right to award Protea colours to its players through the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).
This is regarded as a major advance for South African pool and it is believed that this will encourage even more players to join the South African BlackBall pool community.
With just days before the World Championships, South African internationalists can be proud that they are officially 'Protea' pool players.
View : SASCOC Registered Members
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| | | Irish Blackball Pool Championships 2009 |
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|  Announcing the Irish Blackball Pool Championships 2009
The Northern Ireland Pool Association (NIPA) in partnership with the Southern Ireland Pool Federation (SIPF) will be staging 3 days of Pool in the Park Plaza Hotel, at Belfast International Airport.
The schedule will be as follows.....
Friday 27th February 2009
7.30 pm : Friendly International N.Ireland v S.Ireland.
Saturday 28th February 2009
11.00 am : Mens Open Individuals. Double Eliminator.
85 Players from both North and South played down to last 8.
Sunday 1st March 2009
11.00am : Mens Irish Open Individuals Last 8 played to finish.
11.00am : Mens and Ladies NI Championships played to finish.
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| | | Ireland’s Invitation 8Ball Pro-Am Pool Tournament |
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|  Full information has now been released for the annual 2009 Ireland’s Invitation 8-Ball Pro-Am Pool Classic and the organisers will announce the full list of invited professionals shortly for this fantastic pool weekend on Irish soil.
All involved with Ireland’s Invitation 8Ball Pro-Am Pool Tournament (played to 'World Rules') would like to congratulate last years champion Gareth Potts on becoming WEPF World Champion once again in Blackpool putting in a fabulous performance over his fellow professionals, and hopefully Gareth will be returning to defend his title......
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| | | Nigerian Pool Team : World Championship 2008 |
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|  The team to represent Nigeria at the World Championship will "do the country proud"
Martins Obada has emerged as the overall champion of the 2008 National Pool Festival and will be leading four other players that will represent Nigeria at the Pool Billiard Africa and World Championship coming up in Swaziland next month.
The four other Nigerian representatives are Odita Oluwatosin, Adegbite Aderibigbe, Olayinka Martins and Akintunde Adebodun.
In a chat after the game, Obada said he and his colleagues would do the country proud in Swaziland. "We will surely do the country proud in Swaziland in both the Africa and World Championship," the University of Benin graduate said.
In his reaction, President of the Cue Sports Association of Nigeria (CSAN), Scot Igbene said he was really impressed with what he witnessed and has no doubt in his mind that come August in Swaziland the boys will do the country proud.
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| | | Tanzanian Pool Team : World Championship 2008 |
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| Five Tanzanian players have been named to form the national pool team that will take part in the World Pool Championships in Swaziland.
The Secretary General of Tanzania Pool Association (TPA), Amos Kafwinga, said yesterday that the initial list had ten players but were trimmed to five. Ten players were selected from five different teams which made it to the Safari Lager National Pool Championship.
Amos said the organizers had criteria to pick the team.
These include players' discipline, the time they took to finish the game, how they shoot, confidence and the style in which they finish the game.
Brand Manager of Safari Lager, the flagship of Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) which has sponsored the event, Fimbo Buttallah, said the team will leave the country on August 14, two days before the tournament begins.
However, before going to Swaziland, Buttallah said the team has to enter into a training camp first.
The five selected players were Rajabu Matumla, Edward Mgasa, Rahim Kajuna, Omary Akida and Muhammed Jummane.
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|  The Northern Ireland Pool Association (NIPA) have begun work on a new web page: nipapool.blogspot.com
The site can also be viewed at:
niblackball.com
ni8ball.com
The NIPA committee :
Chairman - Cliff Wilson
Vice Chairman - William Lucas
Treasurer - Elise Richardson
General Manager - Lesley Leddy
Events Committee - Robert Hawkins
Events Committee - Darren Whiteside
Mens 'A' Team Manager - Darren Sterrett
Mens 'B' Team Manager - William Lucas
Ladies Team Manager - Elise Richardson
Juniors - Gary Wallace
Specials - Denise
Players confirmed as attending the 2008 European Championship in Selsey have been announced on the NIPA site.
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| The inaugural 'Blackball International' AGM is scheduled to take place during the World Blackball Championship in Swaziland.
This is a new organisation which has been formed to unite National associations.
Aims include cultivating mutual friendships, encouraging the development of Blackball pool and determining rules and regulations for the game.
Further proposed objectives relate to co-ordinating World Championships and other annual events, recording statistical data, exercising control over eligibility of players to participate in Blackball events and maintaining a register of qualified referees.
Blackball International is constituted as a division of the World Pool Association.
The Board of Directors will meet as and when necessary.
More information will be made public following the Blackball International meeting in August.
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| | | World Blackball Championships Officially Launched |
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| Press Release.
The African Blackball and World Cup Championships have been officially launched at the Royal Swazi Sun Convention Centre.
This will be the first time the country hosts this world event in pool.
There are 22 countries that have confirmed participation in the championships.
Present during the launch were acting Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs Ben Zwane, Sport and Olympic Council of Swaziland (SOCS) vice chairman Sophie Dlamini, SOCS Chief Operation Officer Dan Mavuso and All African Pool Association (AAPA) President Peter Hawley.
Billiards Association of Swaziland (BAS) President Sikhatsi Dlamini announced that the association would be hosting the championships from the 14th to 23rd of August at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre, Ezulwini.
"We are very happy as an association for winning the bid to host the game in the country, not forgetting the contribution that has been made by AAPA towards the development and administration of the sport development in the country.
All the credit must go to none other than Peter Hawley as he has been a father and mother of the association.
He has done a lot in developing the sport in Africa and world wide," Dlamini said.
He said Hawley played a pivotal role in ensuring that the country won the bid to host the games as he was the one who went to Germany with the country's bid documents because the local association could not make it due to financial problems.
"We are expecting players from all over the world to come and enjoy themselves and see the beautiful Kingdom of Eswatini.
We hope that they would get the opportunity to witness the Umhlanga Reed Dance as it has gained so much popularity in the world" he said.
Note : The Umhlanga (Reed Dance) is a traditional dance where twenty to thirty thousand of Swaziland's bare breasted maidens congregate and dance for the public.
It usually takes place around August when the weather is less harsh and the reed has matured.
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| | | RDA Cues : SPA Approved Supplier |
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|  RDA Cues is a Scottish Pool Association approved advertiser and supplier of cues, balls and other pool equipment.
RDA Cues have opened an online shop and banner links will appear on SPA hosted sites. To celebrate the opening discounts will be in place until the 31st August 2008.
There will be a £10 discount off any cue in the shop and 10% off any other product.
The shop will grow in the coming weeks as more products are added.
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| | | Welsh Festival of Pool 2008 |
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|  WelshBlackball.com presents the Welsh Festival of Pool 2008.
The venue is Lyons Robin Hood, Coast Road, Rhyl.
Tournaments run from Tuesday 9th to Sunday 14th September 2008.
These include Open and Welsh County events.
Click for further details and entry forms....
Festival of Pool
Mens County Cup
Ladies County Cup
Accommodation
Please return entry forms by 1st September to:
Dudley Ulyett, 2 Heol Aaron, Gurnos,
Lower Cwmtwrch, Swansea, SA9 1EA
For information telephone Dudley on 01639 844790
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| | | Swaziland Prepares for World Championship |
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| The Billiards Association of Swaziland (BAS) will send three national teams that are preparing for the African Blackball and Word Cup Championships to Namibia to play international friendly games. 
The three are the seniors, masters and under 23s teams, announced BAS executive member Vusi Masilela. Two others, the ladies and under 23s B teams, will not travel to Namibia due to lack of funds.
Masilela said they had selected five national teams for the Blackball and World Cup games next month...... but due to the shortage of funds they would only send three to Namibia for the friendly games.
“This would be a great opportunity for the national teams in preparing for the games as South Africa, who is the leading country in the continent, has shown interest in taking part but they are yet to confirm.
We hope that the local pool players would learn a lot from these games,” he said.
"We would also like to thank the Sport and Olympic Council of Swaziland (SOCS) and other sponsors that have been supporting us since we started the preparations for the international games in August,” he said.
He requested for sponsorship for the other two teams as they were hoping to send all the squads that would be representing the country in the Championships.
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