DATES

25-28 February 2023

VENUES

Longton Snooker Club                 

37 Normacot Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1PL.     

AND

Plaza Snooker & Pool Club

147 King Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3NA.

DRAWS AND PLAYER REGISTRATION

Draws, including individual registration times on Saturday 25 February for each player, have already been published on the UPC website, but can also be found below:

Men's Team Championship/Trophy

Men's Team Shield/Vase

Men's Individual Championship

Men's Individual Trophy

The entry fee includes an individual competition and a team competition.

Individual Championship
 ● Single elimination throughout
 ● Match distances increase as the competition progresses
 ● Lag for first break then alternate breaks through to the end of the match
 ● There are BUCS medals, BUCS points (see Appendix 1 here) and prizemoney for this competition
 ● Competitors who are part of their institution’s first team or who are entering the event without a team will, without exception, play in this competition

Individual Trophy
 ● Single elimination throughout
 ● Match distances increase as the competition progresses
 ● Lag for first break then alternate breaks through to the end of the match
 ● There are BUCS medals for this competition, but no BUCS points or prizemoney
 ● Competitors who are part of a team which is not their institution’s first team will, by default, play in this competition. Such players may opt to compete in the Individual Championship instead of the Individual Trophy, but this can only be done by indicating this on the Team Information form supplied to UPC by the institution’s main contact.
 ● The Individual Trophy will only take place if the size of its field is at least sixteen competitors AND constitutes at least 20% of the overall entry into the event. If the Individual Trophy does not take place then all competitors will play in the Individual Championship.

Team Championship & Team Trophy
 ● One single “round-robin” group stage for both competitions
 ● Subject to having won or drawn at least one match, the top two first teams from each group progress to the Team Championship single-elimination playoffs
 ● The next highest two teams (of any denomination) from each group progress to the Team Trophy single-elimination playoffs
 ● All matches are the best of ten frames, except playoff matches where a further best of three frames are played in and only in the case of a five-all draw (giving a total of the best of thirteen frames). Each frame consists of one player from one team playing against one player from the other team. The two players playing the first frame lag for which team breaks first then alternate breaks through to the end of the match. The winner of a match is the team that wins the most frames, or in the case of a group-stage match finishing five-all the result stands as a draw
 ● There are BUCS medals, BUCS points (see Appendix 1 here) and prizemoney for both of theseompetitions

Team Shield & Team Vase
 ● One single “round-robin” group stage for both competitions
 ● The top two teams (of any denomination) from each group progress to the Team Shield single-elimination playoffs
 ● The next highest team (of any denomination) from each group progress to the Team Vase single-elimination playoffs
 ● All matches are the best of ten frames, except playoff matches where a further best of three frames are played in and only in the case of a five-all draw (giving a total of the best of thirteen frames). Each frame consists of one player from one team playing against one player from the other team. The two players playing the first frame lag for which team breaks first then alternate breaks through to the end of the match. The winner of a match is the team that wins the most frames, or in the case of a group-stage match finishing five-all the result stands as a draw
 ● There are BUCS medals, BUCS points (see Appendix 1 here) and prizemoney for the Team Shield

Saturday 25 February
09:00 Doors Open for FOC Practice and Open Registration
10:30 Captains’ & Main Contacts’ Briefing   –   all team captains, main contacts and individuals entering
                                                                     without a team must attend
11:00 Play Commences
Order of Play
 ● Individual Championship qualifying round one
 ● Individual Trophy preliminary round
 ● Individual Championship qualifying round two
 ● Individual Trophy last-128 round
 ● Individual Championship last-64 round
 ● Individual Trophy last-64 round
 ● Individual Championship last-32 round
 ● Individual Trophy last-32 round

Sunday 26 February
09:00 Doors Open
09:30 Play Commences
Order of Play
 ● Team Championship & Team Trophy group stage, first two matches per team
 ● Team Shield & Team Vase group stage, first two matches per team
 ● Individual Trophy last-16 round
 ● Individual Championship last-16 round
 ● Individual Trophy quarter-final round
 ● Individual Championship quarter-final round
 ● Individual Trophy semi-final round
 ● Individual Championship semi-final round
 ● Individual Trophy final
 ● Individual Championship final
Followed by Presentation & Photographs

Monday 27 February
09:00 Doors Open
09:30 Play Commences
Order of Play
 ● Team Championship & Team Trophy group stage, all remaining matches
 ● Team Shield & Team Vase group stage, all remaining matches

Tuesday 28 February
09:00 Doors Open
09:30 Play Commences
Order of Play
 ● Team Shield single-elimination playoffs quarter-final round
 ● Team Vase single-elimination playoffs semi-final round
 ● Team Trophy single-elimination playoffs last-16 round
 ● Team Championship single-elimination playoffs last-16 round
 ● Team Shield single-elimination playoffs semi-final round
 ● Team Trophy single-elimination playoffs quarter-final round
 ● Team Championship single-elimination playoffs quarter-final round
 ● Team Vase single-elimination playoffs final
 ● Team Shield single-elimination playoffs final
 ● Team Trophy single-elimination playoffs semi-final round
 ● Team Championship single-elimination playoffs semi-final round
 ● Team Trophy single-elimination playoffs final
 ● Team Championship single-elimination playoffs final
Followed by Presentation & Photographs

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations for the Individual Championship and the Individual Trophy will take place immediately after the conclusion of those events on Sunday 26 February.

Presentations for the Team Championship, the Team Trophy, the Team Shield and the Team Vase will take place immediately after the conclusion of those events on Tuesday 28 February.

All players finishing in medal positions must attend the presentations in full UPC dress code for the official event photographs.  Failure to comply may result in medals and any prizemoney being forfeited.

The UPC Dress Code can be found here.

FOOD & DRINK

Food and drink will be sold by the venues.

No food and drink bought outwith a venue should be brought onto that venue’s premises.

Any food and drink bought outwith a venue and subsequently brought onto that venue’s premises will be confiscated and destroyed without any further argument or debate.

All competitors that an Institution Administrator has approved on BUCS Play as at 11:59pm on Thursday 16 February will be charged the entry fee, but if a competitor later withdraws then a reserve may take his place in the event.  Player changes will only be accepted if the proposed replacement has been added as a reserve for the event on BUCS Play.

Changes made after 11:59pm on Thursday 16 February but before the publication of the draw will be subject to a surcharge of £10.00 per reserve and changes made after the publication of the draw will be subject to a surcharge of £20.00 per reserve, both to be paid in cash at the event.