2025 Winter Season Registrations Now Open

Entries are now open for the 2025 Winter Competition and can be made via PlayHQ at the following link: ACTEBA Winter Competition 2025 Registration

The Season

It will be a quick turnaround on registrations with the new season starting on Wednesday/Thursday 4th/5th June and entries will close on 29th May. Team Gradings and the Captain’s Pack will then be put together and be ready in time for the Monday Night Captain’s Meeting on 2nd June.

Any entries received after 29th May will incur a $10 late entry fee.

Life Members

If you are an ACTEBA life member, please message the Tournament Director for a discount code.

Play HQ notes:

  • You need to create an account to complete the checkout. Creating an account will also mean you don’t need to fill out your details next season/event.
  • If you have represented ACTEBA at an AEBF event in the past 5 years you must pay an additional $20 AEBF affiliation fee. This is done on Step 5 of the registration, which confusingly comes after the Fees Summary page. ACTEBA is required to ensure our members are paying the correct affiliation fees to the AEBF so if you have represented please ensure you’re paying $105 total rather than $85.
  • The AEBF affiliation fee is a single fee per calendar year so members will be required to pay it again prior to the 2026 Summer Season. Note that while you’re paying it mid-year, it is also covering the affiliation from January 1 2025 until now.

2025 Masters Trials Final Results

These are the final results from the Masters Trials Top16. Congratulations to Sid, Mongrel, Matt Connor, Matt Power and Murray on making the top 5.

There were 2 playoffs, one for 11th and 12th, which Ron won from Tom and the other was for 14th and 15th which Keith won from Steve.

Well done to everyone that played over the weekend. There were many top quality games that could have gone either way. Special thanks to our adjudicators Doug Percy on Saturday and Georgie Genders on Sunday. An excellent job as usual from you both, keeping the games flowing all day.

2025 Masters Trials Top 16 Event

The 2025 Masters Trials Top 16 round will be played at the HGC on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May, 2025.

The HGC will open at 9.30am for a 10am start.

The Top 16 is a round robin x3 event played over two days with 1.5 rounds played each day, with play taking around 5 hours on both days.

The top 5 players after the Top 16 round robin will join the Winner and Runner-up from the Masters Singles to make up the 2025 ACT Masters Team to represent ACT at the National Championships.

The adjudicators will be Doug Percy on Saturday and Georgie Genders on Sunday.

Good luck to you all and play well!

2025 Masters Trials Group Results Summary

See below the results from the group stage of the 2025 Masters Trials. A big thank you to Fred Johnson for organising this event and to Penny Foudoulis & Heath Newport for adjudicating over the weekend.

The top three players from each group progress to the Top 16 stage next weekend and will be joined by the four seeds, Mongrel, Phil M, Murray & Sid.

2025 Masters Trials – Groups

We have 45 entries for this years Masters Trials at the Harmonie German Club on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th, starting at 10am.The top 4 seeds (Mongrel, Phil M, Murray and Sid) go through to the Top16 round next week.

That leaves us with 41 players so there will be 1 group of 11 and 3 groups of 10. As a result of the large group sizes, it has been decided that we will run a 2 x round robin this year.

The top 3 players from each group will join the top 4 seeds to go onto the Top16 round. (If there is a tie for 3rd place, a playoff will be required)

2025 ACT State Championships – Entries Now Open

Entries for the 2025 ACT State Championships are now open.

The championships are a knockout style tournament with the Open, Ladies, and Masters to all be held in the same venue at the same time – atmosphere!

The events will be held across Friday 23rd May to Sunday 25th May at the Harmonie German Club. For full details and to enter please see below links:

Opens: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/…/2025-acteba-open…


Ladies: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/…/2025-acteba-ladies…

Masters: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/…/2025-acteba-masters…

Special General Meeting – 5th May 2025

There will be a Special General meeting – 5th May 2025 @ 6.30pm (followed by Monthly Captain meeting)

Purpose: To change fees and Membership outside of an AGM as set out in ACTEBA Constitution – Item 5. Memberships & Item 6. Subscriptions

The Core Executive call and SGM to review above mentioned items to allow the association to incorporate the new AEBF Affiliation structure.

A brief outline of some options have been indicated below. The week prior to the SGM an agenda and formal motion of a proposed membership and fee structure will be provided for all members to review. The association will also run a poll to gather feedback prior to the meeting to ensure a structure that aligns with our associations goals and growth is adopted.

The following options are some initial thoughts on ways forward.

  1. ACTEBA moves all registration for event to PlayHQ and a AEBF Affiliation fee be attached to registration
  2. A members fees to join the association and/or play in event proposed to change to one of or a combination of the following:
    1. One off annual Membership fee to play in any ACTEBA Event based on whether you are a representative player or regular season player
    2. One off annual Membership fee to play in any ACTEBA Event at a fixed rate (same for any member)
    3. A tiered entry fee for members to play in league of selections trials, based on representative status or regular league player
    4. A tiered entry fee for members to play in league of selections trials, based on what division you play in
    5. ACTEBA adjust fees to partially subsidise the AEBF affiliation (which the associations currently pays $4000pa), to maintain the current financial position. Some financial reports and forecast will be provided to show the short and long term impact of what changing fees now will do

Please note, these are just broad ideas, and we are not limited to these options at this point. A lower-level detail of proposal will be provided prior to the meeting.

2025 Masters Trials Event

Register via Eventbrite at ACTEBA 2025 Masters Trials Registration

The Masters Trials event is scheduled for the following dates:

Rd 1 – 10th and 11th of May. Players will only be required to play on one day.

Rd 2 (Top 16) – 17th and 18th of May. Players will be required to play both days.

Eligibility

You must be 50 years of age or over at the time of the event.

Preferred day of play

Please note there is no guaranteed day of play. All attempts to give you your preferred day of play will be made.

Competition format

Indicative format based on prior events. Format may be altered depending on the number of entries. The competition will be played under the International 8 ball Rules.

Top 4 seeds may have a bye straight into the top 16

Round 1 – 32 players split into four groups of eight. Round robin x3 in each group with top 3 progressing to week 2.

Round 2 – Top 16. Round robin x3 played over two days.

Round 1 groups seeded based on current Masters rankings.

The top 5 players after the Top 16 round robin will join the Winner and Runner-up from the Masters Singles to make up the 2025 ACT Masters Team to represent ACT at the National Championships.

Play schedule

Play commences at 10am where possible but this may vary depending on the venues being used. Tables will be open half an hour before the expected starting time for practice. Rounds will require approximately 5 to 6 hours to complete. There will be no breaks for lunch.

ENTRIES CLOSE Tuesday 6th of May @ 11pm

Ann’s Trivia Night & Fundraiser – Review & Raffle Winner

WOW – What a Night! ????

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who attended, donated, sponsored, and supported Ann’s Trivia Night and Fundraiser – what an incredible night full of fun, laughs, and heartfelt moments ????

With nearly 300 amazing people in the room, the energy was electric and the love was real. Together, we raised an incredible $70,168.17 to support our beautiful Ann through her journey.

A special shoutout to Paul Berger and Jonathan Charles – your efforts and support were invaluable ????

And a big congratulations to Kylie Shannon, who took home the $25,000 raffle prize! ????????

As Ann shared so beautifully, last night was more than just raising funds – it was a powerful reminder of the strength of community, friendship, and love. ????

Ann, we are all 100% behind you – always. We hope this night gave you the support and strength to focus on YOU ❤️

2025 Australia Cup – Results

Saturday 12th April

The top 5 from the Saturday Australia Cup group were Lloyd, Terry, Mark, Fabio and Conrad (Charles has indicated that he would not be an Australia Cup entry for the Nationals). A big thanks to all of you that played today!

Sunday 13th April

The top 5 from the Sunday Australia Cup group were Brendon, Joel, Jinbo, Keith and Tavis. (Richard won a playoff against Steve for 6th place). Once again, thanks to all of you that played today! The games were played in a good spirit!

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