This weekend saw the university send its fifteen best snooker players to the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds for the only BUCS snooker event of the year. In a format where the strongest and weakest teams are separated out of fairness, past performances had earned Warwick?s three 5-man teams the right to be in the top half of the competition. While Warwick 3s narrowly exited at the group stage, the 1s and 2s progressed to the knockout stages of the Championship and the Trophy respectively.

Warwick?s involvement in the top-tier individual tournament was short-lived. However, many players in the 2s and 3s made good progress in the Trophy individuals, with two freshers making it to the last 16 and three players unlucky to be drawn against the eventual runner-up ? including one in the quarter-final and in the semi-final.

Back to the teams and with the scores tied at 5-5 Warwick 1s found themselves in a single frame play-off with Manchester Metropolitan for a place in the main final. Ultimately, their champion was unable to overcome his England teammate and the bronze medals were Midlands-bound.

Warwick 2s were able to go one better in the next competition down. They came through a group of first teams and triumphing against other second teams in the quarter-final and semi-final to reach the Team Trophy final, repeating their run from 2012. Their opposition proved too strong in the end and they lost out to home favourites Leeds 1, but the well-blended teams will return next year for revenge!

NB: following the tournament, two players were selected to play Home Nations Snooker for England.