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Topic: GB9 Leagues is coming to a town near you!

GB9 Leagues is pleased to announce today the launch of the UK’s first Official 9 Ball League. In association with Rileys and several well-known independent’s, GB9 Leagues will run in over 120 clubs across the country.

Playing in a 3-man team format you will have the opportunity to amass points, both individually and as a team for a chance to compete regionally and nationally for a £25,000 prize fund.

Played weekly, you will only play “in house” against fellow club members, so no need to worry about travelling and at only £5 a week*, with free table time and incentives from the clubs, it makes GB9 Leagues a great value night out.

Also starting in the New Year will be the launch of GB9 Regional’s. This is where the best 32 players in each of the 7 regions of the UK, fight it out for a £15,000 prize fund and qualifying spots for the main GB 9 Ball Tour

It pays to register early!! 4 lucky new members will also receive an early xmas present from our sponsors. ranging from a 2 hour coaching lesson with the countries top sight right trainer, to designer watches, a year's subscription to CueSport TV and more. To win you will need to be the 1st, 100th, 500th and 1000th member to sign. Each winner winner gets to choose their xmas pressie.... more details to follow.

Further information is available at www.gb9leagues.com, or if you have any feedback or would like a direct response please feel free to email me at tony@gb9leagues.com or send me a pm on pro9.



Big Tone

*t&c’s apply


***BREAKING NEWS***


Good Evening All


Rileys are committed to the development of 9 ball in the UK, and as a thank you for your patience have worked out a deal for all members who wish to play in the GB9 Leagues.

Starting today and until midnight on Saturday January 29th, If you register (for those that have registered and paid up - bear with me) for the GB9 Leagues, They will pay your membership fees for the year and offer you the team discount package!.

This includes:

Free annual GB9 League membership
50% off your table times (free on match nights)
20% off your bar and food bills
Free annual Rileys membership
Free after match food
Free League T Shirt

To qualify just log onto www.gb9leagues.com click individual members and sign up (when at the registration, make sure you select annual league). Once registered you will be directed to a paypal page. complete the £19.95 payment for membership and GB9 Leagues will convert the payment into a Subs payment. This means that for just £5 a week you will get all of the above as of Monday February 1st.

If you have already paid your £19.95, not to worry Rileys will honour all existing memberships too. So any payment made will be converted by GB9 Leagues into your 1st subs payment.

If you have selected the Joint membership and paid £34.95, the above applies and you will be contacted on Sunday 30th January re the County structure.

So for those that have paid already - congratulations your already in with a chance to make some good money and for those thinking about it, well, what more of an incentive could you ask for!!

Assuring you of our best intentions at all times.

Tony Weafer                 Sean Langley
GB9 Leagues                 Marketing Director, Rileys

Hats off to you Tony for setting this up.
I noticed some flyers about this when I was in my local Rileys the other night.

I think it will be a great success, and can only be good for the grass roots of the game.

Unfortunately due to my job (month on, month off), I cannot play weekly, or I would sign up in a heartbeat.

I will post this information to the local pool and snooker sites for Aberdeen.

All the best
Brian Craig.

can u explain the format at the weekly events please, cheers

Thanks Brian - appreciated


The format for play is members will form teams of 3 (1 reserve allowed) and will play other teams in their club in a format of 6 singles (race to 3) and three scotch doubles (race to 3).

race to 3 racks? :S

Thats right A-W-C, it makes for a potential 45 racks per league night.

ok cheers for your response

Wishing you all the best with this Tony.

A grass roots structure for American pool. Team play will be great fun. Let's hope the players get behind it.

Good luck mate.

Endorsed by Darkside


Darkside.........Domincan sex machine

Tone, I know its been a big project and i wish you well in your new venture, it's people like you that this game needs.
My very best wishes for a sucessful Campaign.

wow, im stunned!!

after only a few hours of the site being up and running we have enquiries for membership from

Oxford
Bournemouth
Liverpool
Brighton
Aberdeen
Nottingham
London (several times over!)
Guilford
Leicester
Stafford
Chorlton

and more arrive by the hour.

But whats more impressive is out of all those that have enquired i knew only one person - which is brilliant!!. This means the message is getting out to the masses, not just our usual click.

Awesome, i have a fantastic team behind me and rock solid sponsors. I'm relly looking forward to running the GB9 Leagues.

Lets get it on!

Big Tone

On 2009-12-01 21:05 , Jeevesismel Wrote:

Is that you Mel Harley ???


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Andy Warden, GB9 - Authorised Pro9 forum advertiser/sponsor √

A great blog written by Mr Pete Williams:




Pete's post

It is a really important time for British 9-ball at the moment, many of the stars of the English pool game are either completely moving to 9-ball as it has more future or are at least dipping their toes to see what it is like and how they fair.

Off the back of this I think we will see new impetus for players at grassroots level to try something different that doesn't revolve around a 7ft pool table in a pub.

GB9 Leagues has the potential to be massive, not only as a league structure in it's own right but also as a place to develop our future stars.

It is also important with the recent announcements about the GB9 Tour all of which fits perfectly with the new system.

Good luck to everyone and I may even try and dust off my cue.

this is a great idea and just what grass roots american pool needs in the UK.
The top tier of the game seems to be in a good place and now by laying the foundations for the casual/intermediate players, you're establishing a great future for the game over here.

Its ideal for someone like myself who sadly through various commitments missed the boat on the GB9 tour and can't devote enough time to get to that standard anymore but i'm sure i can find enough time for this.

Well done guys

Doing the rounds


Darkside........Millionaire Businessman

Just to let you know there has been a lot of questions asked about who is eligible to play. i will post at tea time today a full regulation that will stand for the first season.

for all those that have registered with us Membership details and info packs will be emailed tomorrow.

Im still amazed at the levels of interest, in just 2 days! stay tuned for loads of updates.

Big Tone

On 2009-12-03 12:18 , BigTone Wrote:



u just answered my question b4 i asked it haha

i registered yesterday but not heard anything yet but now i know why

cool, cant wait sounds really good!!

Due to an overwhelming response, i am gonna have to delay posting the guidelines as posted earlier until tomorrow.

lets just say this. if everyone joins who has enquired this is gonna be one monster national pool league.

i will be looking to bring someone in tomorrow to help with the workload, so please just bear with me.

Big Tone....... cant wait!

Exciting times for UK 9-ball. This really is a great idea!!!