Pool Hub Nova Scotia

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It's been almost two full months since the last post on Pool Hub Nova Scotia and there's plenty of reasons why that is...but who really cares! The most important thing is we're back at it and prepared to bring you up to date on the Pool Scene around the province...so here goes:
CSNS's Annual Meeting took place on August 7th. Plenty of discussion took place along with the non-renewal of some directors and the addition of a couple new faces as directors or simply joining a committee.
The "Season" got started early with CSNS's 1st 9 Ball Ranking Event in Sydney on August 20th. The winner was Andrew Simon with Billy Mac as runner up. The next Ranking Event for CSNS will be Saturday October 1st at Portland St. Dooly's in Dartmouth. I'm pretty sure that the second event, now that we are fully into the pool season, will be extremely well attended and look forward to seeing you there.
The first Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Event took place on September 16th to 18th at Almon Billiards. 98 players from around the Atlantic Region showed up and the highest bid from the Calcutta didn't disappoint...Tom Theriault came away the winner with Colin MacDonald runner up.
There were also Silver Fox events and a 9 Ball Handicap event at Tommy Gun's drawing players from around the province out to play.
Before I talk about the upcoming events in detail I would like to make a couple comments. If you go back just over a year ago and try to remember the FIRST Silver Fox Tournament. 16 teams of 3 players got together in the middle of the summer to play pool! 48 players....about 40 more than had been showing up to each pool tournament over the prior few years came together! The very first inkling of the excitement to come had just taken place.
From those events came almost 20 people showing up to CSNS's annual meeting...a new President was elected and we were OFF and running. We need to thank all those people who, over this past year, helped to revive this great sport. Colin and Billy and Craig and Dale and Jennie for driving CSNS to new heights. T.J. Martin for creating something special out of humble beginnings. Room owners who held things together while we got our s...t together and enabled us to have a place to play! Imagine trying to hold a tournament for 30 or 60 or 100 players in someones BASEMENT!
So now we have so much going on that Pool Players need to pick and choose their events! They need to schedule their weekends to try to support what they can....and THAT is not easy to do.

As a result of all this activity, Pool Hub is taking a slightly new approach. We are going to focus on CSNS Events, Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Events and Charity Events (I'm also going to promote Tommy Gun's Events because they send me the info! And the remaining Silver Fox) . We can go to CSNS's website and view the schedule. The Atlantic 9 Ball Tour website is being built and almost ready for their schedule. Facebook is a great place to learn about what's coming up as well.

I also want to put a plug in for Dave Boone's new website that is either finished or close to it. Dave has begun instructing and mentoring young adults (and others I'm sure) on how to play this game. He has joined me as we work towards finding the avenues available to get kids playing this game. He is probably the most "decorated" player from this province to pick up a stick and he is now looking for ways to give back to a sport he loves....hats off from me Dave Boone...and I'm sure many others.

So here's what's coming up:
October 1st - CSNS 9 Ball Qualifier # 2 - Portland St. Doolys - no details needed
October 15th Silver Fox Stop # 6 - look on Facebook for location
October 21st to 23rd Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Stop # 2 - Almon Billiards (newly renovated!!)
October 29th CSNS 9 Ball Qualifier # 3 Century Billiards, New Glasgow - no details needed
November 5th - TWO CHARITY EVENTS TAKING PLACE
Every year Tommy Gun's hosts 4 events for the residents of Bonny Lea Farm. Started by Stuart Carver to buy Christmas Presents for the 36 adult residents. It is a 32 player only Scotch Doubles event STRICTLY for fun!! This one is the 3rd of the 4 events for 2016. Go to Facebook and register. First 32 players registered...then it closes.
The second event will be hosted by Locas Billiards and Rob Millard. I don't have all the details, but again, Facebook through Locas, Cathy or Rob can fill you in. Events like these are what make pool and its players REALLY great!
November 12th Tommy Gun's 4th Handicap 9 Ball Event. 3 Spots paid to the Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Stop # 3 the next weekend as well as cash. Last Event won by Dave Boone with Brian White runner up and 28 players attending.
November 18th to 20th - Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Stop # 3 - Almon Billiards
November 26th - CSNS 9 Ball Qualifier # 4 - Tommy Gun's, Windsor
I'll post in about a month for the remainder of 2016 and early 2017.

 I have excluded the Snooker events taking place simply because it is almost a separate group of people. I DO want to acknowledge the tremendous effort put forth by Billy Martin and also Dale Brimicombe for their dedication to this sport. If I could see to the end of the table I might still be playing!!
By the way...Dory Trawler has been MIA for about 2 months. He's been on a bender (normal). I'll try to dry him out and stick him in front of a typewriter very soon.

Support the Events...Support the Rooms....Have a BLAST!