Former two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant and all the leading snooker players from Mumbai and representing a total of 52 teams from 28 clubs, gymkhanas and institutions will be seen in action during the BSAM-Otters Club Mumbai Snooker League 2018.
Otters Club, Bandra has once again come forward to host the BSAM Mumbai Snooker League 2018, which gets underway with the first round of home and away matches being played till July 1, 2018. The Snooker League is also being supported by Z3 Zodiac Clothing.
Varun Agarwal, Otters Club, Managing Committee member and Chairman of Billiards and Snooker sub-committee said, “Last year when we hosted the Snooker League everything went well. We even went on to emerge champions. Hence, we (Otters Club) decided to extend our support for another year and the entire Managing Committee backed the decision.”
Agarwal added that Otters Club always tries support and promote every sport. However, their main interest has always been swimming, squash and snooker.
The Defending Champions Otters ‘Rockets’ are in Pool-A along with MCF ‘Dark Knights’ and MHCL ‘Madcaps’. Otters Rockets and MHCL Madcaps will clash in the first round. Last year’s runners-up ECC ‘Elfies Hornets’ are clubbed with NIA Cuts Miss Hook’ and DG ‘Warriors’ in Pool-I. Elfies and Warrior meet in the opening round.
The BSAM Snooker League offers a total cash fund of ₹2 lakh. The winners stand to receive ₹75,000 and the runners-up will receive ₹45,000. The losing semi-finalists will get ₹20,000 each and the losing quarter-finalists would also receive ₹10,000 each. Besides, Yasin Merchant, the other big guns are Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya, Siddharth Parikh, Faisal Khan, Sarang Shroff, Ishpreet Singh Chadha to name a few.
Each match is a ‘Best-of-5 Frames contest. The first three frames will have to consist of two 15-Red singles frames and one 9-Red doubles frame. The fourth and fifth frames will be played as 15-Red.
The 52 teams have been split into 16 pools (12 pools consist of 3 teams and 4 pools comprise of 4 teams).
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