The SPA are delighted to announce that McGoldrick’s Pool and Sports Bar, Rutherglen, Glasgow will be continuing their proud sponsorship of the 2025 SPA Mick McGoldrick IM Series.

 

There will be FOUR events again in 2025, each of these will count towards each players' ranking in the series, in addition the Ross McInnes Scottish Championships also counts towards each players’ ranking. Every player is awarded Merit or Ranking Points determined by their position in each event.

 

The National Finals shall be held on the following dates:-

 

Event 1: 26th and 27th April (Players Lounge, Falkirk)

Event 2: 21st and 22nd June (Players Lounge, Falkirk)

Event 3: 2nd and 3rd August (McGoldrick’s, Glasgow)

Event 4: 4th and 5th October (McGoldrick’s, Glasgow)

 

The National Finals will have 128 qualifiers, where the Top 16 from the 2024 rankings are automatic and joined by 112 qualifiers from all over Scotland.  In the local qualifying, matches will start as races to seven.

 

Areas shall still be awarded a pro-rata of qualifiers based upon their entries, the more entries an area has, the more qualifiers they shall likely receive for the National Finals.

 

Entry for the 2025 Series are frozen and remain at £25 per player out with the automatic qualifiers. The entry fee for an automatic qualifier is £75.

 

 

This is still one of the best value tournaments on offer with all entry money taken in, being paid out.

 

Entry is via the nominated SPA IM Reps for each area.

 

Any player that cannot attend the National Finals must inform the SPA a minimum of twenty-four hours in advance. Any player that fails to notify the SPA in this time period shall be given a warning. Any player that has received a warning, who fails to notify the SPA in subsequent events shall be removed from the remainder of the IM season in that calendar year. Should a player’s suspension be incurred at event four then they shall be suspended for the first two IM events from when they next register to compete.