The QBSA wishes to inform all members of the 2025 Annual General Meeting Date: Thursday 20th March 2025 Time: 7:00pm (AEST) Venue: Sports House, Castlemaine Street, Milton The following Board
Congratulations to Queensland referees Shuangyu Jia and Brendan Hudson on your selection to represent Australia and officiate at the 2025 WSF Championships held in Morocco.
Congratulations to Vinnie Calabrese (NSW) for defending his title to claim the 2025 Clem Jones AO QLD Open and the final Q-Tour qualifier event for the Asia-Pacific region (APSBF) at
Day 1 of the 2025 Dr Clem Jones AO QLD Open Snooker Championship commences tomorrow morning (Friday) at 9:00am. Players are reminded to be at the venue and ready to
Congratulations to Peter Gilchrist on winning the 2024 Queensland Open Billiards Championship and defeating our recently adopted Queenslander in Robbie Chilcott. Peter also scored the highest break of the tournament
Congratulations to Robbie Chilcott for coming from behind to beat Darren Taylor in a hard fought 90-minute final of the 2024 Queensland Masters Billiards. This year there where 19 players
Do you have some news to share?
If you or your Club has some news they would like to share to the broader Snooker and Billiards community, please send an email to the QBSA Secretary with the details.
Entries are now open for the 2025 Queensland State Snooker Titles.
Date: 25th-27th April 2025
Venue: Matchroom Snooker Centre, Calamvale Central, 662 Compton Rd, Calamvale QLD 4116
Entry Fee: $50 (Ladies and Juniors $25)
Matches up until the semi-finals – dress code includes leather dress shoes, business suit style trousers, a QBSA affiliate club / QBSA / ABSC affiliate snooker branded polo shirt, plain polo shirt (no bright colours) or a long-sleeved collared button up business shirt. Other branded polo shirts will not be accepted (eg. pool or work related).
Matches played on Sunday 27th April (Semi Finals and Final) require full tournament dress to be worn. This includes leather dress shoes, business suit style trousers, long-sleeved collared button up business shirt, vest and bowtie.
Enquiries: If you have any queries please contact the Tournament Director (Graham Baker) on 0438 174 182.
Commercial Club, Albury
Commercial Club, Albury
Mingara, NSW
Yarraville
Ballina
Yarraville
Yarraville
A GRADE STARTS TUESDAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2025
B GRADE STARTS WEDNESDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2025
ABOUT THE QBSA CLUB LEAGUES
The QBSA has a long history of the interclub competition, formally known as the Brisbane Districts Pennants, allowing our affiliate clubs to enter a team to verse other affiliates in Team vs Team Snooker and Billiards Seasons. Teams play home matches and travel for away matches at other clubs in a round-robin format, with the Top 4 teams going through to the finals.
Winning the Pennant for your club was a great honour and showed the calibre of players your club had. Moving up from the lower grades to try and play in A Grade was a common goal for players and inspired players to practice and improve. Pennant was also a great way to prepare for tournaments, and players were always in regular match play on a week to week basis.
Known now as the QBSA Club Leagues since 2020 and run by the QBSA, with the QBSA Club Leagues Sub-Committee’s assistance, we invite each club to provide feedback and suggestions throughout the year by contacting the QBSA Secretary.
Foul and a Miss – applying the rule for the amateur game
An instructional video has been produced by Adam Wyard (Certified Referee – Class 1, Examiner) for Snooker WA with the aim of giving amateur players a guide to applying the Foul and a Miss rule. The target audience is not so much for Referees, it is directed more to the players who are self-refereeing, but it is a starting point for discussion as to how the rule should be applied at the amateur level.
The 2022 QBSA Individual Billiards League will run in conjunction with the 2022 QBSA Club Snooker League later in the year.
Nomination forms and League rules will be sent out to all Affiliates and Members closer to the date.
12-month rolling ranking system. The following event types will be counted for each list:
Snooker = Any open snooker, and the QLD Residents, or an event that has been sanctioned to receive QLD ranking points.
Billiards = Any open billiards, and the QLD Residents, or an event that has been sanctioned to receive QLD ranking points.
Women = The combined total of earned State Snooker and State Billiards Ranking points, plus points earned for Women only events that have been sanctioned to receive QLD ranking points.
Nominating and playing in a tournament
10 points
Round of 64 – win or receive a forfeit
4 points
Round Robin Stage and Round of 32 onwards – each frame won or received by forfeit
2 points
Round Robin Stage and Round of 32 onwards – win or receive a forfeit
10 points
Each break of 50 or more
10 points
Losing Quarter-finalist
10 points
Losing Semi-finalist
20 points
Runner-up
40 points
Winner
80 points
Any unseeded player defeating a 1-8 seeded player
20 points
Any unseeded player defeating a 9-16 seeded player
10 points
To view the relevant policies, please visit the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council website https://absc.com.au/
Membership of the QBSA runs from 1st January to 31st December each year. The QBSA has recently received approval of a new Constitution which introduces a new membership structure.
There are now multiple membership categories with the following fees:
– Individual Members = $150 per year
– Life Members = no fee
– Junior Members = $2 per year
– Social Members = no fee charged by the QBSA
– Clubs = $150 per year
– Private Clubs = $150 per year
– Regional Associations = $150 per year
All Individual Members, Life Members, Junior Members and Social Members are eligible to participate in QBSA tournaments and leagues. For more details regarding Membership, please read Clause 6 of the current QBSA Constitution (available under “Governance”).
If you wish to join the QBSA, please email secretary@qbsa.com.au for more details.
secretary@qbsa.com.au
PO Box 2000,
Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109
State Governing Body whose purpose is to support hundreds of billiards and snooker players, venues, sponsors and enthusiasts across Queensland.