#Club Championship

[thegratefulgolfer]

There Will Be A New Club Champion At Mattawa Golf and Ski Resort

My efforts to be the club champion at the Mattawa Golf and Ski resort will end this year. I played my first round match against a great young player yesterday and he sent me packing. I lost 1 up and the match could have finished in my favour, but alas Alex emerged victorious. Having said that, it was the best match I experienced in years and want to congratulate Alex and wish him well in the next…

[allelitewrestlings]

Blackpool Combat Club AEW All Out 2023 📸: Ryan Loco

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte At Wimbledon 2024 — Day 14

Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Princess Charlotte attend day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on 14 July 2024 in London, England.

📸: Karwai Tang / WireImage

[leosgreyfringe]

BENJAMIN WHITE in 100 Fans vs 1 Footballer

[Which league is the most difficult to play in physically?] "The championship [at] number one...it’s relentless, it’s every three days, it’s so tough. Tough to get out of."

[espioakakeith]

He do got that shit on tho

[wrestler-smash-or-pass]

William Regal in AEW had me feeling some type of way 🫣

[wrestlingmgc]

ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta

[lovethathookhausen730]

Now this is what you call a masterpiece no questions asked

[eldesperadont]

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[debbiechanclub]

THE INAUGURAL IWGP GLOBAL HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION DAVID FINLAY Wrestle Kingdom 18 (Jan. 4, 2024)

[maineventpapiuso]

The boys are back in town

[thegratefulgolfer]

The Mattawa Golf and Ski Resort Match Plays Are Back

The Mattawa Golf and Ski Resort Match Play events are back. I am placing the final touches on the organization of the events as two of the events start tomorrow. There is an exciting change this year. After some positive responses, we have added a Ladies event. This event will start on 15 July and I will be creating the draw next weekend. So, stay tuned for that update. For now, you can check…

[allelitewrestlings]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Princess of Wales at Wimbledon 2024 — Day 14

Catherine, Princess of Wales, presents the runner up trophy to Serbia's Novak Djokovic and the winner's trophy to Carlos Alcaraz on day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on 14 July 2024 in London, England.

📸: Karwai Tang / WireImage

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[coochiequeens]

Yet another case for SheWon.com. Not just any case, one where a grown ass white dude was allowed to compete against an 11 year old girl of color in the name of inclusiveness.

By Amy Hamm February 22, 2024

A trans-identified male is set to compete against women as the reigning Women’s Snooker Champion at the English Women’s Snooker Championship on May 24 in Walsall, UK. Jamie Hunter, 27, became the top women’s player following a semifinal victory against a young girl last year.

Hunter first rose to prominence during the English Women’s Snooker Champion finals in 2023 after he came out victorious against Mary Talbot-Deegan, finishing 3-1. Hunter had managed to make it to the finals after he beat out Ellise Scott, an 11-year-old rising star in the snooker world, taking 2-0 against her in the semifinal grouping. The event had been Scott’s debut in the tournament, and, prior to her match against Hunter, she had achieved three match victories against experienced female opponents.

Hunter had been participating in women’s cue sports since 2021, just one year after he “came out” as transgender.

Prior to transitioning, Hunter played in a mixed-sex amateur league for five years. Speaking with Snooker Zone in 2021, Hunter admitted that he had no intention of competing professionally until he discovered that there was a women’s tour.

“Until this year, cue sports was just a hobby, something I done once, maybe twice a week, but now finding out about the Women’s snooker tour, I believe that will change,” he said at the time. “They make out as if I played snooker as a man, I was rubbish, so decided to do it in the women’s instead. I changed my gender for my wellbeing and my life, not for anything else.”

Hunter received significant backlash after his 2022 US Women’s Open win, when former women’s world champion Maria Catalano criticized the policies enabling males to compete against females. In an interview with The Sportsman, Catalano argued that women’s snooker should exclude males from female categories, as some rugby leagues have, to ensure fairness for women. 

“We have fought so hard for our rights in the past – myself, Reanne Evans and others got people to write letters to allow us to play in leagues and clubs that banned women. I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. We are mentally different,” said Catalano. 

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) publishes a mixed sex international ranking of players. The highest-ranking female on their current list, Mink Nutcharut, is listed at 119.

In response to the criticism of his wins against women, Hunter has framed the backlash as transphobia.

“Everybody’s human. Regardless of what choices you make. You should treat everybody with respect,” said Hunter speaking to a BBC journalist last fall. Bizarrely, Hunter was interviewed while he sat in a gaming chair in a dark bedroom — which he refers to as “the dark girl cave.” The room has a transgender pride flag pinned up on the wall behind him.

The upcoming English Women’s Snooker Championship is set for May 24, 2024. It is being organized by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards (EPSB), which is the national governing body for the sport in England. They describe their goal as creating a “structured coaching environment that will inspire all regardless of gender, ability, or ethnicity to fulfil their potential in our sport.” 

The EPSB has a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy with a lengthy section on discrimination, including a ban on any “condition, rule or practice [that]… particularly disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic.” As for their list of protected characteristics, the EPSB includes “gender, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, HIV positivity, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs.”  

The English Women’s Championship is set to take place at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, UK, on May 24.

This is not the first time a male has dominated women’s cue sports, sparking backlash from players and fans.

Last November, a female pool player refused to compete against a trans-identified male opponent at a women’s championship in Wales. Lynne Pinches received an outpouring of support as video began to circulate showing her walking away from the table after being matched to play against Chris Haynes.

Days later, two more female pool players refused to compete against Haynes in solidarity with Pinches during the Ultimate Pool tournament in Blackpool, UK.

In January, Pinches headed an effort to launch a lawsuit against the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and Ultimate Pool Group (UPG), accusing the governing bodies of subjecting women “to direct sex discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sex.”

What does he have to gain from this?

ENTRY FEES AND PRIZE MONEY

Entry: £30

Winner: £200 

Runner-Up: £100 

Semi-Finalists: £50