Canada to host Pan American Snooker Championships
filed on Monday, December 9, 2019. 10:44am PT/USA
The Pan American Snooker and Billiards Association (PABSA) have announced that the 2020 Pan American Snooker Championships will be hosted in Canada at The Corner Bank in Toronto from March 23 - 29.
After a successful 2019 staging by the United States Snooker Association (USSA) earlier this year at Q Ball Snooker & Pool in Houston, Texas, it is the turn of the Canadian Billiards & Snooker Association (CBSA), who have chosen to play the Championships at one of Canada's premier cuesports facilities which is located in the Scarborough administrative division of the city of Toronto.
The Corner Bank in Toronto, Canada
Photo courtesy of The Corner Bank
In a change from 2019, PABSA have expanded the 2020 Championships which will now encompass the main 2020 Pan American Snooker Championship event, and the 2020 Pan American Seniors Snooker Championship event for players aged 40 and over. The Seniors event will be played first from March 23 - 25, followed then by the Main event from March 26 - 29.
A view of the snooker tables in The Corner Bank
Photo courtesy of The Corner Bank
The Championships are open to entry from a player who is a citizen of any of the 41 countries which make up the Pan American Olympic movement, with a special dispensation for players who have been a legal permanent resident of one of those nations for a continuous period of the past five years, and have not had any previous representation for a foreign nation in any international snooker competition.
The United States is expected to have several participants competing in both events.
Players interested in entering should visit the PABSA website for further details: www.pabsa.org