All England Bar Billiards Association (AEBBA)
2022 Challenger Championship
Saturday 20th August, Doors 12pm
Email here for registration, it’s £5, payable on the day.

‘York a top spot for the resurgent game of bar billiards ahead of British Challenger Championship’

The Yorkshire Post gives us the low-down on this Saturday’s Bar Billiards Open at The Crescent. Registrations close on Thursday!

The game of bar billiards is enjoying a something of a resurgence, with the British Challenger Championship being staged in York next weekend. Julian Cole reports.

Bar billiards is played on a small table. There are no side or corner pockets but nine holes in the surface. Mushroom-shaped pegs stand before three of the holes. Knock the black one over, and you are out of the game. Sometimes the obstructive mushrooms are pins. It’s more complicated than it looks, or that’s my excuse for losing to bar billiards enthusiast Michael Shallcross at the Ackhorne pub, off Micklegate, in York.

Bar billiards, played in pubs across Yorkshire, is said to have been brought to England about 100 years ago by a man called David Gill, who had seen it played in Belgium. Michael is a more recent convert. He runs a league in York that pitches pub against pub. And next Saturday, he is organising the 2022 Bar Billiards Challenger Championship at The Crescent in the city, starting at midday.

All England Bar Billiards Association (AEBBA)
2022 Challenger Championship
Saturday 20th August, Doors 12pm
Email here for registration, it’s £5, payable on the day.