**2025 USBA National Championship**
April 24 to 27, 2025
Hosted by Bergen Billiards, Palisades Park, NJ
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Tournament Results/Schedule
Schedule of Matches for Thursday
Final List of Players updated April 23, 2025
2025 National Qualifiers
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Schedule of National Qualifiers
February 4, 2025 Palisades Park, NJ Bergen Billiards Link to Info Completed
February 6, 2025 Flushing, NY Carom Cafe Billiards Link to Info Completed
March 8, 2025 Modesto, CA The Billiard House Link to Info Completed
March 27, 2025 Milpitas, CA Jimmy's Billiards Link to Info Canceled
March 28–29, 2025 Tacoma, WA Elks Lodge #174 Link to Info Completed
March 29, 2025 Lauderhill, FL Carom Billiards Link to Info Completed
April 3, 2025 Palisades Park, NJ Bergen Billiards Link to Info Completed
2025 USBA National Qualifier Results
The three winners at Bergen Billiards (left to right): Seung Kwon Hong, Sang Ho Kim, and Won Sik Kang.
Bergen Billiards | April 3, 2025
Seung Kwon Hong, Sang Ho Kim, and Won Sik Kang Qualify for the Nationals
Bergen Billiards, the host of the 2025 USBA National Championship, held a second qualifier on April 3. Twelve players competed to qualify for the Nationals in 3 Groups. Matches were played to 25 points. Seung Kwon Hong prevailed in Group A winning his 3 matches with an average of .824. Young Ha Choi was a standout in the Group despite losing his first round match to Seung Kwon 25-24. Young Ha won his 2nd match in 26 innings and then posted the best game of the tournament in the final round scoring 25 points in 9 innings (2.778 average). His grand average was 1.276, the best overall.
Bergen Billiards during the Qualifier on April 3rd.
In Group B, it was Sang Ho Kim who went undefeated finishing his matches in 16, 25, and 30 innings for an overall grand average of 1.056. 2nd in the Group was Edward Gomez losing only to Kim. Gomez avereged 1.054 overall with a best game of 25 points in 13 innings (1.923 average).
Won Sik Kang finished on top in Group C winning his three matches averaging .893. The battle for 2nd place in Group C was closely contested between Jim Shovak and Wilmar Rivera with Shovak winning their final round match 25-24.
Overview at Bergen Billiards.
Carom Billiards | March 29, 2025
Hernán Patarroyo, Jovanny Ceballos, Victor Cuzzi, and Julian Molina Qualify for the Nationals
The group of players for the qualifier at Carom Billiards in Florida.
Eighteen players competed at Carom Billiards in Florida to qualify for the Nationals. There were 3 groups of 6 players with the top 2 from each group advancing plus the 2 best 3rd place fininshers for a single elimination final. Matches were played to 25 points in the qualification groups. Julian Molina led Group 1 with a 5-0 record and 1.025 average. Camilo Medina finished 2nd with 1 loss. David Ramirez finished on top in Group 2 averaging .977 winning all his matches. Jovanny Ceballos and Hernan Patarroyo were 2nd and 3rd both with 3-2 win-loss records. In Group 3 it was Victor Cuzzi at the top also 5-0 followed by Nayiv Ramirez in 2nd Julio Rincon in 3rd.
The four qualified players (left to right): Victor Cuzzi, Jovanny Ceballos, Hernán Patarroya, and Julian Molina.
30 point matches were played in the final knockout stage where Julian Molina won against Julio Rincon 30-12 at the top of the bracket. Victor Cuzzi prevailed over Nayiv Ramirez 30-25 in the closest match of the final. Jovanny won against Camilo 30-13 and Hernan got the best of David Ramirez 30-13.
Congratulations to all the players for a succesful qualifier in Florida!
Elks Lodge #174 | March 28 to 29, 2025
Jesus Quinonez, Ertan Tarhan, and Salvador Hernandez Qualify for the Nationals
Sixteen players competed at the Tacoma Elks at the end of March. Ertan Tarhan finished in first place at the USBA National Qualifier in Tacoma with Rod Jr finishing second in a very close final tournament match. Unfortunately, some players who qualified for the USBA National Championship will not be able to attend so it will be Jesus Quinonez, Ertan Tarhan, and Salvador Hernandez representing the Pacific Northwest at the Nationals this year.
The Billiard House | March 8, 2025
Jose Soria and Tony Padilla Qualify for the Nationals
The Billiard House in Modesto, California, the site of the 2024 USBA National Championshp, qualified two players for the 2025 tournament: Jose Soria and Tony Padilla. Ten players competed in the qualification tournament held on March 8.
Carom Café Billiards Billiards | February 6, 2025
Young Kyu Lee and Young Gull Lee Qualify for the Nationals
For the second qualifier of the season, 10 players competed in 2 Groups of 5 at Carom Café Billiards in Flushing, NY. The winner of each group qualified based on W/L, Total Points, Head-to-Head. Young Kyu Lee led the way in Group A with a 4/0 Win/Loss record to secure his qulification spot. Bassem Salem finished 2nd at 3/1. In Group B it was Young Gull Lee who qualified with a record of 3/1. For 2nd place there were 3 players at 2/2 and Raymon Groot prevailed with the most points followed by Sang Jin lee and Eric Kwon.
Bergen Billiards | February 4, 2025
Quoc Tuan Vo, Oscar Pardo, and Kang Lee Qualify for the Nationals
Thirteen players competed in the first USBA National Qualifier for the 2025 season at Bergen Billiards, the host room for the National Championship. Players were divided into 3 groups of 4 or 5 players and the winner of each group qualified based on W/L, then average. Matches were played to 25 points. In Group A it was Quoc Tuan Vo who dominated with 3 wins averaging 1.271 finishing his matches in 16, 19, and 24 innings. Group B had 5 players and Oscar Pardo and Kenny Je both finished with 3 wins and 1 loss. Pardo's average of .850 placed him first above Je who averaged .730. Kang Lee, the host and owner of Bergen Billiards went undefeated in Group C with a grand average of 1.339. He finished his second round match in 9 innings averaging 2.778. It was his first time playing a match with no open innings.
More results coming soon as qualifiers are completed!
Sang Lee 70th Anniversary Celebration at Carom Café Billiards
November 19–24, 2024
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Alexander Salazar Wins the Sang Lee Celebration Open Tournament
Jun Tae Kim is Runner Up
Jose Juan Garcia and Pedro Piedrabuena Share 3rd Place
The Final Eight Players for the Quarterfinals
1 Pedro Piedrabuena
2 Jose Juan Garcia
3 Alexander Salazar
4 Jun Tae Kim
5 Hau Trung Do
6 Ricardo Carranco
7 Ly Van Dao
8 Huberney Catano
With Two Rounds Left Pedro Piedrabuena Leads the Field
Jun Tae Kim Makes His Debut
Alexander Salazar Shines with a Run of 21
Jun Tae Kim begins his warm up for the tournament. His matches begin tomorrow.
Hugo Patino & Pedro Piedrabuena Win the Scotch Doubles Tournament
Scotch Doubles Qualification Groups
Scotch Doubles Tuesday Schedule
Two Events
Scotch Doubles Tournament ($5,000.00 added)
Tournament Dates: November 19–20, 2024
Open Tournament ($15,000.00 added)
Tournament Dates: November 20–24, 2024
Tournament Venue: Carom Café Billiards – Flushing, NY 718 358 8585
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