Contents

1. Introduction.

2. Meetings.   Most Fridays around 5:30pm.   This often allows time for some instruction, or questions about shots, before a black light, or other Friday, tournament.   (If in doubt BAC meeting times you can check with the game room attendant at 835-5927.)

3. Billiard classes.     Beginning Pocket Billiards will be offered (as PR189C-02) in Fall 2012.

4. Ladders.   (14.1,   9-ball,   3-cushion,   Straight Rail Carom ,   and snooker.)

5. Tournaments.

   Here are short descriptions of the Spring 2012 tournaments we offered.   Except as noted below these tournaments were open to students, faculty, staff, and affiliates of New Mexico Tech.
   

   1. ACUI.   Visit NMT ACUI Qualifier to see who qualified to go to the region 13 tournament at UCCS.

      History of ACUI at NM Tech.

   2. A self-seeding version of Cut Throat where play is in foursomes.

      We had eight people play an exhibition on March 3, 2012 of this fast paced format.   The feedback was that all had a good time.   We are planning on running a Cut Throat tournament again in the Fall of 2012.

   3. 7, 9, 8 (-ball)       ** A plaque event. **
      

      The C-division event was canceled due to lack of entries.   The A-division, and B-division events were canceled due to a scheduling conflict.   We are looking at offering this tournament in the Fall semester.

6. Recommended Equipment Care.

7. Rules.   (House sets, and others.)

8. History of Game Room billiard table layouts.

9. Links to Other Sites.

Introduction

Learn more about the Billy Aardd's Club at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
You can also view the Billy Aardd's Club constitution, and our club's operating procedures.

Meetings

Weekly meetings for the Spring semester have been set for Fridays around 5:30pm in the Fidel Student Center game room. This often allows time for some instruction, or questions about shots, before a black light, or other Friday, tournament.

Jared Davis is the club's president, and Omar Hurab is our Treasurer.

Aside from the occasional business that needs to be conducted the meetings offer opportunity for:

• people dropping by with questions about billiards (Carom or Pocket),
• mini-clinics,
• watching some of the clubs instructional tapes,
• watching some of the clubs tapes of tournaments.

Ladders

Sign up on the round sheet (posted on the right wing of the rightmost white board) of which ever ladder you want to play on.   Be sure to leave your name (first and last), your conditional rating (CLBPI, CPPI, ...), your phone number, and an email address (preferably one from Tech).

• Handicapped 14.1 Continuous  (aka: Straight Pool) ,
  

  In September of 2011 we started running a 44-pt Handicapped 14.1 Continuous Ladder.   This ladder uses a 105% handicap, limits the minimum LBPI for spots to a 0.550, and has a maximum spot of 130-balls.   We are currently trying this in favor of the original 50-pt ladder to get away from what have become marathon matches.

  Our original 50-pt Handicapped 14.1 Continuous Ladder was started in the Summer of 1983 by John Hagstrom following an idea to set up some sort of ladder for people interested in regularly scheduled competitive play.   It uses a 100% handicap system, with a minimum LBPI (ladder balls per inning) for spot calculations of 0.400, and a maximum spot of 200-balls.   It is currently suspended in favor of the 44-pt ladder.

  In February of 1999 we started running a 75-pt Handicapped 14.1 Continuous Ladder.   This ladder uses a 60% handicap, limits the minimum LBPI for spots to a 1.000, and has a maximum spot of 125-balls.   (It folded when we didn't have enough people on the ladder for good movement.   If we get enough interest we'll probably start it up again.)

• 9-ball

  Suspended for lack of activity.   If there is sufficient interest this can be started up again.

• Straight Rail Carom , (cushion contact is optional).

  We have six players and are starting up again.

  If you wish to join please add your name (and contact info) to the current round sheet posted in the game room.

• Three Cushion Carom

  Suspended for lack of activity.   If there is sufficient interest this can be started up again.

• Snooker ,
  

  Canceled for lack of a ladder director.   If there is sufficient interest this can be started up again.

Tournaments

1. Announcements and Schedules   presents current and past (BAC) tournament information.

2. History of ACUI at NM Tech.

3. Score Sheets

4. Round Robin format

5. Various format brackets.