We built this
because someone had to.
Pool has been played seriously across Africa for decades — in college halls, county clubs, the back rooms of every town. What never existed was the continental layer: a shared ranking, a shared bracket format, a shared record of who beat whom and where. CueSports Africa is that layer.
How it started.
It started as an evening thing. Three friends in Kirinyaga County — Anthony Chege, Thomas Ngomono, and Chris Mutwiri — kept noticing the same gap. Pool was played seriously across Kenya, sometimes for real money, often for real pride. Brackets were drawn on receipt paper. Ratings were stories players told about themselves. Cross-county players had no way to know who they were really up against until the cue was already chalked.
In 2025, the question got concrete enough to build something around: if every other sport on the continent has a record of its competition, why doesn’t cue sports? What was a hobby became a project. What was a project became infrastructure for a sport that had been there the whole time.
We named it CueSports Africa because the name had to be a promise: not a county, not a club, not a tournament series. The continent.
Three layers. One sport.
CueSports Africa runs on three layers, each one earning the next:
- Rankings
- An Elo-based continental ranking. Updated after every confirmed match. The single source of truth for who’s playing well right now.
- Tournaments
- The rail any organizer can use to run a serious event — brackets, entry-fee collection, live updates, settlement. From a 16-player Sunday open to a continental Major.
- Magazine
- The stories around the ranking — players, halls, results, controversies. Cue sports has produced its share of legends. They deserve a record.
Started in Kirinyaga. Growing across the continent.
The honest version: we’re early. That’s the point. The names that show up on the ranking now are the names history will start with.
Built by people who play.
Founders
- Anthony Chege
- Founder
- Thomas Ngomono
- Co-founder
- Chris Mutwiri
- Co-founder
A small team of engineers, organizers, and players. We’re hiring. Talk to us.
The continent, fully on the table.
The five-year version: every country in Africa with active cue sports has a ranked player base on this platform. The continental championship has a real bracket, a real prize pool, and a real seeding from twelve months of qualifying events. Federations use our infrastructure because it’s the infrastructure, not because we asked them to.
The one-year version: more cities, more tournaments, more organizers running more weekends. The magazine starts writing the player profiles the sport has always deserved. We sign our first major sponsor.
If any of that sounds like a room you want to be in — as a player, an organizer, a partner, or a teammate — the next page is the one you’ll want.