SECTION 7 - INTER INSULARS

RULES GOVERNING THE CHANNEL ISLANDS BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS

1.      The competitions shall be governed by a Council, which shall be known as the “CHANNEL ISLANDS BILLIARDS & SNOOKER CONTROL COUNCIL” (henceforth referred to as the “CIBSCC” or the Council). The Council shall consist of FIVE persons, two delegates from each Island Association and a Chairperson. Meetings will take place either in person or via video conference. The Chairperson shall be the President of the Island Association in which the meeting is held or, in the event of the meeting taking place on Teams, Chairperson duties will be alternated between the Presidents of the respective Island Associations. In the event of the President being unable to attend he shall be entitled to nominate a representative. Meetings to be arranged (when necessary) by the respective Honorary Secretary of each Association, who shall record the Minutes.

2.         The Competitions shall be played under the rules of the “World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association”. Only players who have played regular League Snooker or Billiards will be considered for selection for Island Teams.

3.         The competitions shall be:

            Channel Islands Individual Billiards Championship

            “R J Collins” Trophy

            Channel Islands Individual Snooker Championship

            “Evening Press” Trophy

            Channel Islands Team Billiards Championship

            “The Silver Jubilee” Trophy

            Channel Islands Team Snooker Championship

            “Lieut-Col R. W. Randall” Challenge Cup

            Channel Islands Snooker Upton

            “Upton” Trophy

4.         The Association of the Island in which the match takes place (the ‘Host Island’) shall nominate the locale of the table(s) on which matches shall be played. The Association will also be responsible for the appointment of Referees and Markers.

5.         Quality aramith balls shall be used. For billiards, balls should consist of a spotted white, spotted yellow and red ball.

6.         No charge shall be made to witness any match. Collections will be permissible.

7.         The Competitions, in the case of Individuals, shall be contested between the Amateur Champions of Guernsey and Jersey; in the case of Teams, between Amateur Players selected by a recognised Island Selection Committee or Panel in each Island. All shall be bona-fide “Resident Players”. “Resident Players” shall mean that they have been domiciled in their respective Islands for a minimum of two months preceding the Championships.

8.         The Matches shall be played annually, over two weekends, one in each island on an alternating basis.

(i) The Individual Snooker Match, Snooker Upton and Team Billiards will be held on the third full weekend of April, played on Friday and Saturday.

(ii) The Individual Billiards Match and Team Snooker will be held on the fourth full weekend of April, played on Friday and Saturday.

(iii) Should Easter fall on either weekend, the Matches will be moved by mutual agreement of the respective Associations before the commencement of the season.

(iv) Any further changes to the dates of the Matches must be made by agreement of both Associations by no later than 31 January, and only where it is in the interest of both Associations to do so.

9.         In the event of an Individual Champion Billiards or Snooker player being unavailable to participate in either match, the Selection Committee of that Island shall be empowered to select a deputy player (preferably the losing finalist) to play in their stead.

10.       The two captains or authorised representatives of each team shall meet before the match. Both captains or representatives shall be in possession of a list of team members placed in order of seeding as selected by the respective Island Selection Committees / Panels.

11.       The format of the Team matches will be as follows:

 

Billiards:

(i) Both teams will consist of four players, with each player to play one match of 45 minutes against each of the other team’s four players.

(ii) Four tables will be in use throughout the match, with the order of play according to the following rankings:

Rotation 1: 1v2 and 3v4

Rotation 2: 1v4 and 2v3

Rotation 3: 1v3 and 2v4

Rotation 4: 4v4, 3v3, 2v2 and 1v1.

(iii) The score from each match will be recorded.

(iv) An interval of no more than 15 minutes will be held between each rotation.

(v) Provided a stroke commences within the allotted 'frame' time the completed stroke will be permitted to stand along with any score or penalty points resulting from it.

(vi) Scoring for the match will be:

Two points for a win

One point for a draw

(vii) The team with the most points at the completion of all 16 matches will be the winner. In the event of a tie, the team with the most aggregate points will be the winner. In the event that a tie still exists, each Captain will nominate a player to play one match of 100 up to determine a winner.

 

Snooker:

(i) Both teams will consist of five players, with each player to play one frame against each of the other team’s five players, whereby each frame won shall be awarded one point.

(ii) All 25 frames to be played over two sessions.

The order of play for the first session consisting of 14 frames will be according to the following rankings: 1v4; 3v5; 2v4; 1v5; 2v3; 4v5; 1v3.

The order of play for the first 6 frames of the second session will be according to the following rankings: 2v5; 3v4; 1v2.

The order of play for the remaining 5 frames will be: 5v5; 4v4; 3v3; 2v2; 1v1.

(iii) The team with the most points at the completion of all 25 matches will be the winner.

Upton:

(i) Both teams will consist of four players, with each player to play one frame against each of the other team’s four players, whereby each frame won shall be awarded one point.

(ii) Four tables will be in use throughout the match, with the order of play according to the following rankings:

Rotation 1: 1v2 and 3v4

Rotation 2: 1v4 and 2v3

Rotation 3: 1v3 and 2v4

Rotation 4: 4v4, 3v3, 2v2 and 1v1.

(iii) The team with the most points at the completion of all 16 matches will be the winner. In the event of a tie, each Captain will nominate a player to play one frame to determine a winner.

12 Intervals shall be allowed in individual competitions, to be regulated by the Referee.

13 Prizes: In Team Inter Insulars, medals shall be awarded. All medals to be of an agreed design used jointly by both Islands. Miniature trophies or medals shall be awarded to Individual players. Provision of miniatures to be alternated between the Islands, with each Island responsible for two consecutive years before switching responsibility for ordering and engraving passes to the other Island. Costs associated with each order to be split equally between the two Island Associations.

14 All trophies under the jurisdiction of the CIBSCC shall be insured and the cost of insurance to be equally shared between the Island Associations.

15 Pre-match practice sessions on the match tables at the match venue to be mutually agreed by the two Island Associations, in collaboration with the Host Club. The following best practice should be adhered to:

a Host Clubs should make every effort to accommodate practice at a reasonable time for the visiting player or team, including opening outside of normal operating hours.

b Any practice session should end no later than one hour before the match start time, in order for the Host Club to prepare the table(s) for the match itself.

c For both individual and team matches, a minimum of 60 minutes practice time should be accommodated by the Host Club, where practically possible.

d Practice start times and duration (ideally both start and end times confirmed) should be clearly communicated to the Host Club to avoid any confusion on the part of the Host Club in respect of player arrival time and expected duration of the practice session itself.

e The Host Club should reserve the match table(s) for the agreed times and ensure that the tables in question are not in use when the visiting player or team arrives.

16 Any matter unprovided for in these rules shall be decided upon by the CIBSCC at the first available meeting.

Application of snooker miss rule

For both Individual Snooker and Team Snooker matches, the full miss rule, as outlined in the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA) Rules of Snooker and English Billiards, will be operated.

For the Snooker Upton match, an adaptation of the above will be operated, whereby a player can be penalised for a maximum of three ‘foul and miss’ infringements, as long as the third and final attempt is deemed, by the referee, to be a genuine and reasonable shot selection (i.e. where a player does not elect to ignore a straightforward path to contacting an object ball in favour of a more complicated route that minimises the chances of leaving their opponent a potting opportunity) and execution (where a genuine and reasonable attempt has been made to contact the object ball in question). After the third such infringement, the ‘beneficiary’ returns to the table with the ‘foul and miss’ sequence broken.

For all snooker matches, if a player fails to make contact with an object ball they can contact ‘full ball’ on three consecutive occasions, the frame is awarded to their opponent (on the proviso that the referee warns the player of this outcome prior to the third execution of the stroke).

UPTON Selection

Guernsey

Team selection to compete for the Upton Trophy will be based on Premier Division aggregates to form a 'B Inter Insular' against Jersey. The top four in the aggregates will be selected, with the exclusion of:

a.      Those players selected to play in the full inter-insular in the same season; and

b.      Those players who have competed in the full inter insular on more than one previous occasion.

In the event of a tie between two or more players with the lowest number of aggregate frames, the following criteria will be used to determine selection:

1.      Highest aggregate win percentage – must have played a minimum of 85% of games.

2.      If aggregate win percentage is the same, best head-to-head record between the players concerned during the regulation league season.

3.      If head-to-head record fails to differentiate the players, i.e. if the two individuals did not compete against one another during the league season, a play-off will be arranged between the players,format to be determined by the Executive Committee.

Jersey

The JBSA will select its team from the top four finishers in the second tier of its Individual Handicap Snooker League, deferring to the next highest finisher(s) in the event of a top four finisher being ineligible for selection.