At the February 2017 committee meeting, Match Secretary Andy Milner reported that he had received a number of requests for the League to run an Individual Snooker Handicap competition. It was agreed to run the competition as a trial in the following 2017/8 season.
The competition is open to all bona fide members of Member Clubs
Matches are the best of 3 frames.
Players are required to contact each other to arrange their matches and to submit the results by a deadline date set for each round. Matches are played at the venue of the "first drawn" player except for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final which are scheduled to be played on a Sunday at a neutral venue.