About
Started in a pub.
Still in a pub.
The founder
Bal Jassal.
I'm 48. I work in a pub. I feel 21. I look... let's move on. I've called myself the best pool player in Kent for years. I came third at my own tournament. I've got a nemesis. Dan Towers. He knows what he did.
I ran pool tournaments every month at The Weston Arms in Rochester. Drew brackets on paper. Watched them go in the bin at the end of the night. Nobody remembered who beat who. Nobody remembered the scores. Just arguments in the car park about whether it was a foul.
I kept thinking — why can't there be more than this? More than a bracket. More than one night. What if every match actually counted? We pay a fortune for Sky Sports and TNT to watch other people play. Why can't the players here be the celebrities?
Taught myself to code because no one was going to build it for me. Been building Leagology for over 8 years. No funding. No team. Just me, a pub, a pool table, and an idea that wouldn't go away.
Based in Medway, Kent. Father of two. Drinks Budweiser. Or used to — the mrs has opinions. Still feels 21. The mirror disagrees.
The why
One tiny attempt to bring people together.
There's a lot going on in the world. People are less active, less social, more isolated. This is one tiny attempt to bring people together. Get them off the sofa. Get them competing. Get them into a room with other people who are there for the same reason.
What if people got more active, more social, and mentally better for it? That's the real point. The rankings and the TV and the brackets — that's just how it happens.