The 2025 Ultimate Pool Disability Pool Series will feature four events at four long weekends throughout the year – four ‘main’ events and four plate events. There will be a maximum of 32 players per event.

Dates and Venues

Events 1 & 2 | April 4-6 - Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan
Events 3 & 4 | May 23-25 - Premier Suite, Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton
Events 5 & 6 | July 11-13 - Premier Suite, Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton
Events 7 & 8 | September 19-21 - Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan

Prize Money

The 2025 Ultimate Pool Disability Pool Series has a total prize fund of £6,400.00 The prize money breakdown for each event is as follows:

UP Disability Pool Series Main Events:

Winner: £400
Runner-Up: £200
Semi-Finalist: £100
Quarter-Finalist: £75

UP Disability Pool Series Plate Events:

Winner: £200
Runner-Up: £100
Semi-Finalist: £50
Quarter-Finalist: £25

Classification

The Ultimate Pool Disability Pool Series will bring together all disability players under one umbrella tour in a multi-classification open system.

Eligible player examples:

Wheelchair Players

Players play all shots from a seated position in their chair

Ambulent (standing) players

One or more upper or lower limbs are absent or severely impaired
One or more upper or lower limbs are slightly impaired
One or both upper or lower limbs slightly impaired

Intellectually impaired players

IQ of 75 or less, significant limitations in adaptive behaviour or social adaption, age of onset pre-18 years, neurodevelopmental disorders e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder, neurological conditions e.g. acquired brain injury

Visually impaired players

Players categorised as visually impaired in accordance with the British Blind Sport assessment

Hearing impaired players

Deaf and hearing impaired players with a loss of hearing of 55 dB in the better ear

WDBS & BWPPA certified players are granted automatic qualification to play on the Up Disability Pool Series. Players who aren’t currently certified by the above groups but believe they may be eligible to participate in the Up Disability Pool Series, please send an enquiry to td@ultimatepoolgroup.com with the subject line “Disability Pool Player Classification”.

Coverage

The latter rounds of Disability Pool Series events – where possible – will be played on the main arena tables and shown on ultimatepool.tv, Ultimate Pool App, TikTok and YouTube.

INFORMATION FOR PLAYERS

ABOUT ULTIMATE POOL

The Ultimate Pool Group organises and promotes professional 8-ball pool events featuring the world’s top players. Founded in 2020 when the QK Sports Entertainment and Orange Media Group brands merged forces, the Ultimate Pool Group harbours an exciting vision for the sport’s future, with an emphasis on supplying quality, entertainment and increased levels of professionalism, exposure and prize money.

Ultimate Pool hosts a portfolio of live televised tournaments including several major invitationals and a structured two-tier floor circuit that consists of an open amateur series and an elite 64 player professional series. Throughout 2025, Ultimate Pool is set to pay out approximately over £840,000 in prizes (subject to a fully paid fields).

SCHEDULE

Ultimate Pool Series Events will commence on Friday and conclude on Sunday. All matches will have an allocated start time: A comprehensive match schedule will be published a minimum of two weeks prior to each Series event.

SERIES FORMAT

There will be 32 players in the Disability Series 2025, these will be divided up into 8 groups of 4 players in each group. The initial stages will be round robin. The top two from each group will progress through to the Last 16 of the main event and the bottom two from each group will go into the Last 16 of the Plate event. Races to Three in the Group Stages and Races to 4 from the knockout stage.

RANKING POINTS DISTRIBUTION AND RULES

2025 Disability Pool Series Main Events:

Winner: 3,000
Runner-Up: 1,500
Semi-Finalist: 750
Quarter-Finalist: 400
Last 16: 200

2025 Disability Series Plate Events:

Winner: 1000
Runner-Up: 500
Semi-Finalist: 250
Quarter-Finalist: 125
Last 16: 75

For any matches that involve a bye/withdrawal, the ‘beneficiaries’ will earn full prize money, ranking points and frames on offer.

Players have to attend the tournament and complete their matches (unless otherwise authorised by a UPG official) in order gain ranking points.

Players Tied on Points

A) If players are level on the same number of points, positions are determined by whoever won the most points in any single event during the season.

B) If positions can’t be decided by (A) the countback method will be applied.

.1 This means positions will be decided by how many points were earned during the most recent weekend on this season’s Disability Series.

.2 Should this still not separate players, you continue this process looking at the most recent Disability Series weekend working backwards throughout the season until players can be separated.

C) If players have an exactly identical ranking points record throughout the entire season, positions will be decided by whoever won the greatest number of frames in their losing match at the most recent Disability Pool Series weekend.

.1 Should this still not separate players, you continue this process looking at the most recent Disability Pool Series weekend working backwards throughout the season until players can be separated.

D) In the event that players still can’t be separated, the players involved may have to contest a playoff – the details of which would be decided by the Ultimate Pool Group.

Should an issue arise that is not covered above, the decision of the Ultimate Pool Group will be final.

The Ultimate Pool Group has the right to alter the above in exceptional circumstances.

Seedings and How Qualification Works

The group seeds will be determined from event 2 as per the rankings after event 1 which will be drawn at random.

These 16 seeded players will go into corresponding numbered groups from 1-16 (top seed will be in Group 1, number 16 seed will be in Group 16).

The knockout round bracket for the ‘main’ event is below. This has been created in such a way that if the seeded players win their groups, the very top ranked seeded players will avoid each other until the latter rounds.

Group 1 Winner v
Group 8 Winner v
Group 5 Winner v
Group 4 Winner v
Group 3 Winner v
Group 6 Winner v
Group 7 Winner v
Group 2 Winner v

Group positions will be determined by the following:

Points
Frame Difference
Head to Head

DRESS CODE

All players will receive an official series shirt, which must be worn during your matches. No jeans or trainers allowed. Trousers and shoes to be worn whilst playing in all events. Any player who doesn’t wear the official Ultimate Pool Shirt will be fined £45.00 and a new shirt will be ordered for them.

TV & STREAMING

Our events will either be televised and/or livestreamed on ultimatepool.tv, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. For further details please visit ultimatepoolgroup.com.

WRISTBAND FEE

For the 2025 season, we will be using a wristband system for each series event. If you are participating in the events, the charge will be £25.00 per weekend. All players on the UP Disability Pool Series are allocated an extra wristband to be distributed at their discretion which will be free of charge. Extra weekend passes are available for £20.00. Under 16s go free but must be accompanied by a fee-paying adult.

HOW TO ENTER

Please contact the Tournament Director via email: TD@ultimatepoolgroup.com and provide your full name and a contact telephone number. By entering the Ultimate Pool Series you agree to abide by the rules set out by the organisers of the Ultimate Series, accept they are subject to change and that decisions made by The Tournament Director will be final.

BY PAYING YOUR DEPOSIT YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE READ AND AGREED TO THESE RULES.

DISABILITY SERIES FEES PAYMENT STRUCTURE TOTAL FEES: £320.00

Payment 1: £50 (Deposit): Due 31st December 2024
Payment 2: £100: Due 28th February 2025
Payment 3: £100: Due 30th April 2025
Payment 4: £70: Due 30th June 2025

Entry includes series shirt & annual Ultimate Pool app subscription. DEPOSITS AND ALL ENTRY FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. If your application is not successful, your deposit will be returned as soon as possible.

The organisers reserve the right to remove and replace any entrant who fails to make the payment deadline as set out above. All players must pay all the entry fees, even if they do not attend all the Events. The organisers reserve the right to decline any unsuitable new applicants.

By applying to join the Ultimate Pool Series, you have read and agreed to the Ultimate Pool Players Terms and Conditions which can be found at https://www.ultimatepoolgroup.com/tournaments/terms-and-conditions