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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
P1 million up in 9-ball League
By Rommel C. Manlosa
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
STARTING next year, billiards gets a taste of the regional-based competition.
With a P1 million bounty waiting for the champion team, Philippine 9-Ball Champions League “The P1M Challenge” tours different malls in the country for its first season on Jan. 15 to March 27.
The group that spearheaded the current Corporate Billiards League (CBL) and the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) has pooled its resources together to bring the newest the sport’s best players to the countryside.
“This is our way to make full use of our resources in discovering the hidden talents of our bilyaristas outside Metro Manila,” Ramon Tuason told Sun.Star Cebu. “Billiards has been a passion of the Filipinos and we have proved to the world that Filipinos are among the best.”
Tuason will do the operations and marketing of the tournament that will be aired on delayed basis over at NBN 4 at 9-11 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
His partner Ben Solon, owner of the Socsargen Marlins, also expressed his enthusiasm in the project, which could draw even bigger and better participations because of the huge prize money at stake.
“What’s good with this is for team owners to get a good media mileage for their products, while earning something in return – in terms of prize sharing and shares from the league itself,” said Solon.
The group plans to convince Cebu’s basketball patron Michel J. Lhuillier to own the Cebu franchise.
The league is also adopting new rules to make the tournament exciting to television viewers.
(December 28, 2004 issue)
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