East Zone Snooker Championship commenced at 6Pockets, Patia, Bhubaneswar on September 5. The championship, featuring 70 cueists, including 20 from neighbouring states West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, is being organised by 6Pockets.

Shahbaz Khan of PSPB has been made the top seed. Falcon Chilika Fresh is the title sponsor of the tournament. The champion and runner-up will be given cash prizes of Rs 20,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively.

RESULTS:

September 5: Soubhagya Behera bt Spandan Debata 3-0. Asit Choudhury bt Manas Behura 3-1. Amiya Ranjan Nayak bt Rahul Hali 3-0. Subhrajit Patnaik bt Sk Naseem 3-2. Anuj Panda bt Krishna Chawda 3-0. Sandeep Badajena bt Sibasish Biswal 3-0, Siddharth Sen bt Sudipta Dash 3-2. Nishi Prakash Das bt Sumeet Hembrom 3-0. Satyakam Mohapatra bt Indrajeet Sarangi 3-0. Harshit Kamwani bt Harihar Guru 3-1. Mishal Swain bt Anubhav Agarwal 3-0. Rumit Gupta bt Suman Patnaik 3-2.

September 6: Aswini Patnaik bt Arpit Agarwal 3-1. Khalid Sultan bt Rahul Naik 3-0. Mohammad Raza bt Tarun Patnaik 3-0. Shyam Agarwal bt Harsh Lamba 3-0. Udbhas Mohapatra bt Kunal Agarwal 3-0. Chandra Mohanty bt Sameer Ali 3-1. Shyam Agarwal bt Harshit Kamwani 3-0. Chetan Anand bt Akshay Seth 3-0.