Tuesday, 07 November 2023 / Published in Juniors

Lorcán Wins Stars of Future U-16 Tour Event 2

Lorcán Ó Curraoin from Galway won his biggest title to date when he won the second Under 16 Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) Stars of the Future Tour event of the season. This event was held in the SBI HQ on Saturday the 28th of October but fter a long days play, SBI decided that the final was played on Sunday the 5th of November.

The final

The final will be the first ever all Galway National ranking final where No.1 seed Max Kennedy from Hot Shots SC Galway will face Lorcán Ó Curraoin from Edlington SC Galway and the match was excellent with Lorcán winning his first SBI ranking Event 3 frames to 2.

SBI rebranded the U/16 tours as the SBI Stars of the Future Tour and these event will be played in group format in a one-day event. This event 2 final will be played during the SBI Junior U-18 on 5th November when Max Kennedy will play Lorcán Ó Curraoin

Stars of the Future

There was an excellent entry of 10 young stars of the future playing on the day from Dublin, Newbridge, Youghal, Longford, Galway Edenderry and Waterford. This event today began at 10am in group format plus we held a skills event with drills designed by our National Coach PJ Nolan.

Skills Event

The Skills event was won by Joe Shannon with Lorcán Ó Curraoin in second place. All the players received today a SBI booklet on improving their games. This is to help the players prepare for future events and the skills event today was excellent and will have bonus ranking points.

Semi Finals

In the Semi Finals Lorcán Ó Curraoin from Edlington SC Galway beat Joe Shannon from Longford in a great match three frames to two and in the other semi-final Max beat James Stewart O Reilly from Terry Rogers SC Dublin in another close match 3-0. both Joe and James should be very proud of their play today.

Plate Event

SBI also held a Stars of the Future Plate event for all the players who did not qualify from the group. The standard was excellent with Callum Burnett from Terry Rogers SC in Dublin winning the event when he beat Evan Kennan from Waterford 2 frames to 1 in an excellent final.

Thank You

SBI would like to thank all the players and parents/ guardian for attending the event. We hope everyone enjoyed the great day of Junior Snooker. The players performed excellent and will only improve more during the season. SBI would also like to thank Conor Doyle for refereeing all day and it promises to be another great final on Saturday between Max and Lorcán in the SBI Stars of Future Grand Prix Cup.

Full Results Below

See you all at event 3 on 18th November in Cork – Enter Now!

Full Tour Info

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

Players should be aware that all entries are now through the on line system and you have to enter before the closing date.

Click here to ENTER

Rebranding the Ranking Tournaments

The Ken Doherty Cup
The Irish Grand Prix
The Rodney Goggins Cup
The Fergal O’Brien Cup
The Irish Masters
The Brendan O’Donoghue Cup

You can now enter and pay for all the events for the season at the same time by clicking HERE and choosing which events you want to enter.

30^th September – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 1 – KEN DOHERTY CUP – SBI HQ – WINNER Max Kennedy
28^th October – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 2 – THE IRISH GRAND PRIX – SBI HQ – WINNER Lorcán Ó Curraoin
18^thNovember – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 3 – THE RODNEY GOGGINS CUP – Crucible SC Cork
3^rd February – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 4 – THE FERGAL O BRIEN CUP – SBI HQ
2^nd March – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 5 – THE BRENDAN O DONOGHUE CUP – Hot Shots SC Galway
6^th April – SBI STARS OF THE FUTURE EVENT 6 – THE IRISH MASTERS – Newbridge CYMS Co. Kildare
27^th April – SBI UNDER 16 NATIONAL SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP – DERMOT DALTON CUP– SBI HQ
4th May – SBI UNDER 14 NATIONAL SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP – DERMOT DALTON CUP– SBI HQ

Important Notice for Junior players

Snooker & Billiards Ireland SBI were recently notified by EBSA of their intention to move the age qualification date for all junior events effective from next (2023-2024) season. This decision was subsequently adopted by IBSF meaning that we will have to accept this change and move to different qualification windows for all international junior events.

For the forthcoming season, instead of the player age at 31/12/23 being the age qualification cut-off date, both EBSA & IBSF have now moved this to (31/08/24), 2024 being the year that their relevant events are being held.

U-16’s: a player who’s 16th birthday is on or before 31st August 2024 will not be able to enter the SBI under 16s events in the 2023 /24 season.

Please contact SBI on info@sbireland.ie , if you have questions or need help understanding the impact for you based on your date of birth.

Closing Dates

The closing date for all SBI Stars of Future events will 1pm on the Thursday before the event. The draw for Groups will be made at 9.30am on the morning of the event in the venue by the TD.

Play will start at 10am at all events this season on the Stars of the Future Tour

Tournament Entry Fees

The cost of entry will be the following:

Under 16 – €10.00

All players will need to register for the new season. SBI Registration runs from September to September each season.

Players will have to first pay SBI registration / membership or Renewal their membership and register for the new season. When you register, you will be asked to create a username and password. You will only be allowed to enter an event if log in and use this username and password.

You can reset your own password and there is also a support form on the system for members to complete and I.T. will follow up to resolve any major issues.

SBI Registration

Under 18’s – €16.00

How it will work

There will be a group that will play a round robin format of 2 frames per match. 1pt for a 1-1 draw and 2pts for a 2-0 win.

Venues

We will bring the tour to 3 different venues and 3 events will be held in Carlow, other enues are Hot Shots in Galway, Crucible SC in Cork & Newbridge CYMS for this year. The national championships for both age groups will be held in Carlow.

Celtic Challenge, Home Internationals & Europeans

Each age group will still have their own ranking points to qualify for the International Team

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