Otters Club, Bandra has once again come forward to sponsor the Otters-BSAM Mumbai Snooker League 2018, which gets under with the first round of home and away matches scheduled to be played from June 25 to July 1.
A total of 52 teams from 28 clubs, gymkhanas and institutions will be hoping to pick their perfect winning combinations and fight it out to be crowned champions of the Otters-BSAM Snooker League. 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.
Last year’s runners-up ECC ‘Elfies Hornets’ are clubbed with NIA Cuts Miss Hook’ and DG ‘Warriors’ in Pool I. Elfies and Warrior will meet in the opening round.
The BSAM Snooker League offers a total cash fund of Rs 2 lakh. The winners stand to receive Rs 75,000 and the runners-up will receive Rs 45,000. The losing semi-finalists will get Rs 20,000 each and the losing quarter-finalists would also receive Rs 10,000 each.
All the leading snooker players from Mumbai, including two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant, Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya, Siddharth Parikh, Faisal Khan, Sarang Shroff and Ishpreet Singh Chadha, to name a few, will be seen in action representing different teams in the league.
Each match is a ‘Best-of-5 Frames contest. The first three frames will have to consist of two 15-Red singles frames and one 9-Red doubles frame. The fourth and fifth frames will be played as 15-Red.
The 52 teams have been split into 16 pools (12 pools consists of 3 teams and 4 pools comprise of 4 teams).
