International Call for Referees
2018 WORLD BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP
To: National Governing Bodies, Regional Federations and Billiards Referees.
The above event will take place at the Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds, England from Friday 19th until Friday 26th October.
This includes a Qualifying Competition, the World Open (Jim Williamson Memorial), the World Women’s Championship and of course the World Championship.
We are looking for a total of 20 officials, from which a tournament committee of four plus 16 referees will be selected. All referees must be certificated by, and current members of their respective NGB and will be required to wear their full NGB uniform at all times; additional logos will be at the discretion of World Billiards.
Accommodation will be provided on a twin sharing basis with breakfast and one other meal per day. The hotel is adjacent to the venue.
Requests for upgrades and Class 3 exams will be scheduled at appropriate times. All such requests must be approved by the candidate’s NGB; private arrangements are not permissible.
All expressions of interest should be sent to:
Dan Lewis (Referees Coordinator) dmkl@hotmail.co.uk
Steve Cowie (Tournament Controller) stevecowie@illawarrasnooker.com
Steve Lock (WBL Director of Tournaments) stephenml10@hotmail.com
World Billiards Ltd.
Officials confirmed so far:
1 | Steve Cowie | Australia | (Tournament Controller) |
2 | Brendan Devlin | Ireland | |
3 | Colin Whitelaw | Scotland | |
4 | Dan Lewis | England | |
5 | John Wilde | England | |
6 | Kevin Christie | Ireland | |
7 | John Kehoe | Ireland | |
8 | Suryanarayanan Nagarajan | India | |
9 | Wictoria Jedruszek | Poland | |
10 | CW Steiner | Austria | |
11 | John Squires | England | |
12 | Derek Budde | England | |
13 | Philip Brooke | England | |
14 | Martin O’Reilly | England | |
15 | Walter Kunz | Austria | |
16 | Desi Stinson | N. Ireland | |
17 | Frank Bradley | England | |
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Vic Hartley | England | (Tutor/Examiner) | |