A total of 52 teams from 28 club, gymkhanas and institutions will be hoping to pick their perfect winning combinations and fight it out to be crowned Snooker Champions of the Otters BSAM Snooker League 2018, which is set to commence from Monday, June 25, 2018. For the second successive season Otters Club, Bandra is sponsoring the BSAM Snooker League, which is also being supported by Z3.
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 during the opening week (Monday, June 25 to Sunday, July 1). 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.
All the leading snooker players from Mumbai, including two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant, Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya, Siddharth Parikh, Faisal Khan, Sarang Shroff, Ishpreet Singh Chadha to name a few will be seen in action representing different teams in the Snooker League.
The 52 teams have been split into 16 pools (12 pools consists of 3 teams and 4 pools comprise of 4 teams).