Isle of Man Pool Festival Returns
Ross McInnes, six-times World Pool Champion and promoter of the Isle of Man festival has today released further details of one of the hottest tickets on the pool calendar.
The 2009 Festival of Pool with run from the 27th September until the 3rd October and will be jam-packed full of tournaments and events throughout the week.
In addition to the main festival that ran last year, McInnes has also secured the EBA European Championships for the same venue during the week. There will be Mens, Womens, Senior and Junior team events plus singles in each category including a wheelchair event.
There is talk of Eurosport involvement in this event and if so it will add even more prestige to an already fantastic tournament.
Last and by no means least there will also be the first ever staging of the Inter-Continental Cup between Europe & Africa. Each continent will field a team in the following categories, Mens, Ladies, Seniors, U-23, U-18.
More exciting details to follow so stay tuned!
Hi Pete,
That’s great news, it will be very interesting viewing with all the events jam-packed into a week of high quality pool action.
Also, if Eurosport are involved it will make it even more interesting. Of course, CueSportTV covering it would be great, but it would be especially interested to hear the snooker commentators for Eurosport (David Hendon, Mike Smith, Joe Johnson and Mike Hallett) commentate on the pool if they don’t have a pool player to commentate. I not to sure on past pool experiences of Joe Johnson and Mike Hallett!
I agree, Eurosport covering the event will add so much prestige, that would go out all around Europe unless it is only on British Eurosport. I do hope that if they do cover the event that they sort out the camera angle as in the World Series of Snooker in Portugal it looked like Eurosport has their own brand of square tables! It was sorted out for the World Series event in Ireland a week later fortunately!