The Billiards & Snooker Association of Maharashtra (BSAM) will be conducting the Senior men’s billiards event of the Maharashtra State Junior Snooker and Senior Snooker & Billiards Selection (leg 1) Championship – 2019, which commences at the P.J. Hindu Gymkhana billiards room from Monday, September 30, 2019.
The top-notch billiards players from Mumbai and across Maharashtra will be vying for the top honours and top eight positions in the tournament.
The Senior men’s billiards, will commence with the qualifying round to be played over best-of-5 (100-up format) frames. The second phase will be a 16-player round-robin league. The 16 players will be drawn in four groups of four players each and will play on a round-robin league basis over a best-of-5 (100-up) format. Top two players from each group on basis their round-robin performance will qualify for the knockout stage. The knockout round matches will be a best-of-5 (150 up) frames upto the semi-final round. The final be played on a best-of-7 (150 up) frames basis.
In the Senior men’s snooker & billiards, there will be a play-off match to decide the third and fourth place and also play-off matches for classification from fifth to eighth placings.