PAU Super Cup:
Starting 5th April 2014
Men: Scrap Yard Vs Skin Samona
Women: Game City Vs Indigo
The Pool Association of Uganda (PAU) has introduced a new exciting menu on the pool events. Starting with the 2014 Season, the Pool Super Cup will be embarked on.
“The Super Cup”, a new event on the PAU Calendar shall feature the league winners and the Club’s Knockout Champions for both the men and ladies categories.
This season’s participants shall therefore be Scrap Yard pool club (league winners), who have beefed up their squad with Jonah ‘Joker’ Turigye, playing against Skin Samona (clubs’ knock out winners) in the men’s category while Game city (women league winners) will face off Indigo (ladies’ clubs’ knock out winners).
On the menu too is another tourney dubbed “The King of the Table Championship” in which PAU’s top 8 seeded players shall battle for the title.
Kampala Open shall also be enhanced to include a second tier of qualifying rounds, which shall be conducted in greater Kampala. This is shall increase the number of participants, improve on the quality of finalists and raise competition for the title.
“Deadline for registration of the teams has been set at 25th April 2014”, PAU Tournament Secretary,Robert Kayanja.
“Clubs still have a full month to comply and we wont entertain excuses this time round. The new regulations will enhance planning for both the players and club administrators” Kayanja added.
PAU organizes several pool events ranging from the league, Easter Cup, Clubs’ knock outs, Pool Queen, Kampala Open, Independence, Christmas cup and the biggest event on the calendar, the Nile Special pool championships, whose winner pockets Ug.X 2M and drives home a car.
Relatedly, the PAU intends to participate in various international competitions to give the pool players in the country more exposure.
“This season, we are going to also focus on strengthening our national team for international engagements. We hope to feature in the AAPA Africa Cup Championships to be hosted by our neighbors,Tanzania and the World Blackball Championships in October in Perth, Scotland. We are looking forward to receiving support from government and our partners to meet the operational costs of our international engagements.” Said PAU Chairman, Farouk Kisuze.
In other news PAU Umpires elected an interim leadership committee. The new leaders pledged to focus on discipline among-st their fellow umpires and players in a bid to raise standards of the game. Our goal this season is to maintain a 98% fixture delivery success rate,” said Ismail Kalibala, the Chairman of the PAU Umpires Council.
