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Cue sports

Snooker

Long-form cue craft on full-size tables.

Local strength (experimental)-40–402–2 playersTableNeeds real-match testing

How a game is set up

Formats, length and resource

Formats

  • One frame
  • Best of 3
  • Best of 5

Typical length

60 / 90 / 120 minutes

Resource booked

Table

Scoring

frames — e.g. 3-1 frames

Equipment

  • 12ft table
  • Match cues
  • Table marker

Typical venues

  • Snooker club
  • Members club

Physical layer

Venue's own infrastructure — Venue's own full-size tables, tagged for check-in.

How skill is estimated

Local strength (experimental)

Range

-40 – 40

Method

Experimental strength units for local pairing only, moved on frame results with participant-only updates.

What we capture

Frame results over best of 1 / 3 / 5; one entry, opponent confirms.

How it updates

Each match counts once towards placement, not once per frame; handicapped frames are kept transactionally separate.

First games

Break bands map to cautious internal starting values (−12 / −6 / 0 / +6 / +12) for the prototype only; an imported league handicap stays contextual.

Placement question

In recent full-table matches, what break do you make reasonably regularly? — under 10 / 10–19 / 20–39 / 40–69 / 70+ / skip. Or supply a named-league handicap. Never both.

Honesty about the number

What this rating is, and what it isn't

Where no universal amateur scale exists, MeetYourMatch says so rather than inventing one.

Benchmark

No universal amateur rating was established. Local league handicaps exist and are genuinely native.

Professional world rankings record tour performance and prize money — they are not a handicap for an unknown club player. Inventing a universal snooker scale to satisfy the interface is not acceptable.

Open decisions

Either anchor to a named league with agreed calibration, or approve an openly non-standard local scale.

Status: Needs real-match testing.

Handicap: Points start

Point starts are the sport's own native handicap — offered manually and openly.

Manual point starts, shown before play. No automatic conversion from the model's units.

What it costs to play

Illustrative MeetYourMatch service fee for Snooker: £4.50 per player, against a planned average of £4.50 per player per game.

The MeetYourMatch service fee covers matchmaking and booking coordination. Each player pays their own. The approved assumption is an average of £4.50 per player per game; actual per-game and per-city rates are still to be set, and the amounts shown here are illustrative demo prices. Anything the venue charges — table or court time, any minimum spend — is separate from this fee.

Illustrative price · not final

Where it could be played

Example venues for Snooker

Example venue profiles · not live listings

Soho Cue Club

Pool hall & bar · Soho

Eight certified pool tables, two full-size snooker tables and a proper oche downstairs.

Strike Stratford

Games & entertainment · Stratford

Ten pool tables, two snooker tables and eight oches with league nights all week.

How venues & hosts fit in
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