The Maram will be running a four person teams comp starting Tuesday 30 June

Comp will run for eight weeks plus finals and is open to a maximum of eight teams.

Entry fee is $15 per player, with each team registering a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 players. Each team can register a maximum of 2 players ranked in the top 50, as per the current ACTEBA rankings.

PRIZE MONEY FOR WINNING TEAMS!!

ENTER YOUR TEAM NOW!!!

To enter please call Cath Jones on 0419 487 498

Later this month Nicole Welsh and Kylie Power head to Blackpool in England to represent the Australian Ladies Team in the World Championships. They will be joined by Alessandro Nasca, who will be playing for the Australian Under 18 side. Last year Nicole was a quarter finalist in the Ladies Singles and we all wish the three players the very best in the tournament.

The successful ACT trio are holding a fundraiser Trivia Night at The Serbian Club in Mawson on Saturday 20th June to help them show the ACT’s might on the world stage. So come along for a fun night and a chance to win some great prizes.

Please see the flyer below for more information.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/trivia_night_jun09.pdf (Adobe PDF, 2Mb)

Last night the division 3 Northern Potters clawed back some of the Southern Guns lead with a hard fought 18-14 win at Chisholm Tavern.

The Potters gained an early 2 frame lead and held it through to half time. Then a big 6-2 third round saw them jump 6 frames clear and within reach of the Guns overall 8 frame lead.

The Guns fought back in the last round but it was always going to be the Potters victorious. With just 4 frames in it heading into the top 2 divisions, the Guns leading 50-46, it promises to be a great finish!

After having a couple of goes at the groups for round 3 last night and today, it is increasingly obvious that I will not be able to accommodate preferred days of play this round.

If any players have a desperate need to stick to their preferred day, call me before lunchtime Thursday (June 4) on 0403 545 619 and I will see what I can do. Be warned that I cannot make any promises.

I will be sending the groups to the webmaster at 1pm Thursday for publishing and any changes after that time will need to be organised by the players and approved by myself.

Please note that venues and start times will be confirmed by next Monday (June 8).

Regards

Chris Jones
ACTEBA Tournament Director
0403 545 619

I’m playing with the colour values and things for links displayed on the site, in an effort to make the links stick out a bit more. I’ve also turned on displaying underlined links. Check out the poll and let me know what you think.

Players,

Minutes from the 2009 March, April and May Captain’s Meeting have been uploaded, and are available on the Minutes page:

http://www.acteba.com.au/blag/pages/minutes.html

Hi all

Another round has been completed on our way to the 2009 ACTEBA Open Singles Champion and Open State Team qualifiers. And some interesting results occurred, with a few players surprising even themselves and others not quite hitting the balls the way they wanted…

With the top 32 seeds entering come round 3, I’ve always seen rounds 1 and 2 as a sort of mini tounament in itself, with 131 players playing for 32 spots. So I guess with round 3 imminent, I must thank all the players who took part in the first rounds for some entertaining days and great standard of play. The groups I saw over the two rounds were competitive and enjoyable, scary to think the play only gets better from here.

Congratulations to the qualifiers this week and thank you to the adjudicators for their time and effort.

A quick note – I will release the groups and days of play in the next day or so, however you will notice that there is one group of 9. This is because I made a slight miscalculation and wound up with 33 seeds by mistake.

Don’t forget that nominations for the Summer Competition are due at the meeting tonight.

Click the links below for the results for Round 2.

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_results.xls (MS Excel)

http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_results.pdf (Adobe PDF)

Umpires tally for the Masters Finals are:

Top 4 Round Robin
Semisi Naupoto: 5
Chris Jones: 3
Ian Stanley: 9
Matt Kendrick: 7

Playoff (3rd/4th place)
Chris Jones : 3

Final
Matt Kendrick: 9

Thank you Semisi, Chris, Ian and Matt.

Next umpiring event – Open Finals (currently scheduled 4-5 July). Pls contact me if you are available.

Greg

The Southern Guns won the Division 4 match 18-14 last night after being neck and neck for much of the first 3 rounds.

This gives the Guns a 36-28 lead in the series over the Northern Potters.

Come down to Chisholm Tavern next Wednesday to see if the Div 3 Potters can narrow the gap!