The draws for the opening Ultimate Pool Professional and Challenger Series’ events of the year will take place and be published this weekend.

All 32 professional players have now been announced, and following the entry deadline passing a few days ago, there will be 127 amateurs lining up for the first two Challenger Series events. All the action takes place between the 6th to 8th August at the Players Pool and Snooker Lounge in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

HOW TO WATCH

There will be live coverage of the Professional Series broadcast on FreeSports TV across the three days for viewers in the UK. Additionally, the semi-finals and final of one of the Challenger events will also be played on the main arena table in front of the live television cameras.

Ultimate Pool will also be providing a livestreaming service from their website (ultimatepoolgroup.com) which will cover two further tables – one streaming the remaining Professional Series matches and the other dedicated to the Challenger Series.

For those outside of the UK, the Ultimate Pool livestreaming platform will also allow you access to the main arena table, meaning wherever you are in the world, you won’t miss a ball of the action from the Professional Series.

Access to the stream for throughout the long-weekend is just £4.99 – incredible value to watch the world’s top 8-ball pool players compete in the first ever Ultimate Pool series events.

Alternatively, you can pay £17.49 for a ‘Season Pass’ which will give you access to all four weekends from the 2021 Ultimate Pool Professional and Amateur Series’, with these events due to take place in September, October and December.

Payment options will be open on the website from Thursday 5th August.

Subscribers to the livestream platform will also be able to view a catalogue of archived / video on demand content from the series for up to a year, with those in the UK able to revisit action from the main arena table seven days later.

Shortly after the draws have been published this weekend, a match schedule for the Professional Series will be made available.