About Leagology
Local sport deserves
a memory.
Thousands of matches played every night. Pubs, clubs, leisure centres, community venues. Most are forgotten by next week.
Leagology exists to change that.
Started in a pub.
Still in a pub.
I'm Bal. I run my family's pub in Kent. Pool tournaments in it, once a month, for years.
They all finished the same way. Bracket off the wall, scores in the bin. Everyone remembers who won — nobody agrees on how it happened, and the story's better every time it gets told.
Not that it bothered me — I just saw a better version of it. Record the lot, keep the stats, and then you can remind a bloke you beat in March about it for the rest of his life.
Took a lot longer to build than I told everyone it would.
My youngest is my co-founder. She told me to keep going — that's the only reason you're reading this.
The founding pub
All of it started at The Weston Arms, Rochester. Same room, same tables, same people arguing about who's actually any good.
Photos go here
Upload them to The Weston Arms's gallery and they appear on this page and the venue page. The group shot from the start of a tournament is the one that belongs first.
The best stories happen
where nobody's watching.
The player who hasn't lost since March — nobody outside that building knows.
The rivalry that's been building for six months — it should have a record.
The first-timer who just beat the best player in the room — someone should remember that.
Now they will.