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Cuesport TV’s Top 10 Videos in June 2011

July 4, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

Below you will find links and short stats to our top 10 videos for the month of June 2011. This is a post that we will write every month to keep you up to date with what everyone is watching on Cuesport TV.

  1. UPC 8 Ball Championships 2011 – Edgehill 1 v Nottingham 1 – 563 views
  2. UPC Singles Championship 2011 – Will Jerram v Tem Dixon – 485 views
  3. UPC 8 Ball Championships 2011 – Aston 1 v Kent 1 – 335 views
  4. UPC 8 Ball Championships 2011 – Manchester 3 v Birmingham 1 – 326 views
  5. Oly Bale v Gareth Potts £21,000 8 Ball Money Match – Part 1 of 10 – 214 views
  6. Terry Humphreys v Anthony Doble – Part 5 of 10 – 212 views
  7. Mark Gray v Phil Burford – 10 Ball Challenge – Part 2 of 8 – 153 views
  8. Oly Bale v Gareth Potts £21,000 8 Ball Money Match – Part 9 of 10 – 149 views
  9. UPC 8 Ball Championships 2011 – Medway 1 v Birmingham 2 – 147 views
  10. Oly Bale v Gareth Potts £21,000 8 Ball Money Match – Part 4 of 10 – 146 views
So the month of June is dominated by 8 Ball content and namely World Rules 8 ball content, with this ruleset taking nine out of the top ten positions. The only other video to feature was a 10 ball challenge match between Mark Gray and Phil Burford.
What will dominate in July – any thoughts?
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Ralf Souquet Continues European Dominance

May 24, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments
Photo Courtesy http://www.eurotouronline.eu

Photo Courtesy http://www.eurotouronline.eu

Ralf Souquet has won the 2009 German Open in Sindelfingen with a 8-4 victory over Britains Imran Majid in the final yesterday evening.

The win further enhances Souquet’s number one ranking position and he is now 550 points clear of Niels Feijen in second. Souquet has been near dominant over the last 7 tournaments and ranking positions are drawn from these seven results on a rolling basis.

It will of course be difficult to maintain this level of form over another twelve months but with three tournament victories in the last 6 event plus a runner-up spot last time out in Italy Souquet is certainly staking his claim for the number one spot for a long period of time.

Another great tournament for the UK players and this result puts Imran Majid up to Number 4 in the European rankings.

The EPBF Eurotour Top 16

  1. Ralf Souquet (Germany) – 3170
  2. Niels Feijen (Holland) – 2620
  3. Nick Van Den Berg (Holland) – 2200
  4. Imran Majid (Great Britain) – 2195
  5. Marcus Chamat (Sweden) – 2135
  6. David Alcaide (Spain) – 2055
  7. Mark Gray (Great Britain) – 1975
  8. Sandor Tot (Serbia) – 1875
  9. Craig Osborne (Great Britain) – 1855
  10. Tony Drago (Malta) – 1845
  11. Mateusz Sniegocki (Poland) – 1845
  12. Dimitri Jungo (Switzerland) – 1800
  13. Christian Reimering (Germany) – 1790
  14. Daryl Peach (Great Britain) – 1775
  15. Thomas Engert (Germany) – 1770
  16. Karl Boyes (Great Britain) -  1735

In the ranking list, which is used to determine places at major International events, Britain has the most players in the top 16 with no less than five. The next event takes place in August, the 2009 Austrian Open.

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Britain Still Going Strong in Germany

May 23, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

 

Majid beat fellow Brit Phil Burford

Majid beat fellow Brit Phil Burford

We went into this morning with no less than nine British cueists still remaining in the German Open event. After this morning’s round we had seven players progress to the last 16 stage.

The players to fall were youngster Phil Burford who lost 8-5 to fellow Brit, Imran Majid and Daryl Peach who was beaten 8-6 by German star Thomas Engert.

Many of the last 16 matches have already been completed which means I can already tell you that Ralf Souquet will play Mark Gray in the quarter finals. Also, Craig Osborne and Karl Boyes have already reached the last 8.

As I write Darren Appleton is locked at 6-6 with Engert and Majid is leading Shaverdi 6-4. Ricardo Jones and Chris Melling have been beaten so the Brits are starting to thin out a little bit!

More news later.

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Nine British Players Make German Open Last 32

May 22, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

We are continuing, as a nation, to make a massive impact on the Internetional pool scene. The German Open concludes tomorrow with nine of our original 16 entrants still standing in the last 32 knockout stage.

Those players include past Eurotour winners and two world champions. Daryl Peach, Darren Appleton, Karl Boyes, Imran Majid, Craig Osborne, Ricardo Jones, Phil Burford, Mark Gray and Chris Melling. These true brits are joined by an honorary Brit in Tony Drago as well.

On the plus side only Imran Majid and Phil Burford have drawn each other so we have a chance of getting 8 players through to the last 16, this would have been unimaginable 5 years ago, but through hardwork and dtermination I would say that we have the best players in Europe at the moment, if not the world.

Updates throughout the day tomorrow complete draw here: http://www.eurotouronline.eu/

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Women’s World 10-ball Championship

March 5, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

It was great news the other day when there was the announcement of the Women’s World 10-ball Championships to be held in the Philippines.

But, it seemed, no sooner had the announcement come that the World Pool Association are denouncing it as an un-sanctioned event.

Why? I hear you ask, well WPA rules state that two sanctioned events cannot take place in the same country at the same time and as the Philippine Open is the same dates it was in contravention of that rule.

The Philippine Open is open to all players male and female which is why it courses the problem with the sanctioning. However, I would beg the question as to how many female players would be playing in the Philippine Open anyway, you could probably count them on one hand and may even be zero.

Although there are some very talented female players, that have had success in predominantly male events (Jasmin Ouschan is the standout name in this department) there is still no female player to have won a male title.

As this is fact why stop the women from having a World Championship event at the same time as the Philippine Open? It seems ludicrous to me, yet another bad decision from the WPA, who seem to hinder the growth of the sport time and time again.

Events for males or females or both, should be accepted with open arms and allow the players to choose this is the only way to stimulate competition and growth in the sport.

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Dusting Off My Stick!

February 6, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

I haven’t played in a tournament since the Bournemouth Open 9-ball event back in November 2008. However, this weekend I ma off to Mickey Flynn’s in Cambridge (weather permitting) and will be competing in their first open 10-ball event of the season.

On this occasion I am able to mix leisure with work as I will also be getting some news content and video interviews with some of the players taking part.

The field, as ever at Mickey Flynn’s, is going to be a tough one. Raj Hundal, Imran Majid, Rico Diks and Tony Drago are all competing along with a lot of other talented players including Matt Ford, Ricardo Jones, Mickey Lambert (clubs owner) and Anthony Ginn.

The tournamnt at Mickey Flynn’s are legendary and the club is one of the finest in the UK, not the largest on any accounts, but well maintained tables and a good bar.

I am not sure whether I will be able to play all of the tournament this year but we will see, CueSport TV are hoping to broadcast live from the club later in the year, the problem at the present time is a lack of space so it means we are back to news clips only.

I don’t hold my breath in terms of my performance but with a double-eliminator at least I get two matches for my money! I think my target is to win at least one match, after that would be a bonus, this of course can depend on my draw and my ability to break, which has been lacking recently.

Watch out for the news item on CueSport TV next week. I have Raj Hundal down to win this one!

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A Quick Round-Up

October 12, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

Whilst out in the Isle of Man I didn’t really have chance to catch up with the goings on all over the world in terms of Cue Sports.

Last week there was a lot of action with some fantastic results for the sport.

The first one is Ricky Walden’s first World Ranking title in defeating Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-8 in the Shanghai Masters last Sunday. This is great news for the 25-year-old Walden, who we caught up with in winning the Belgium Open the week before. It looks like a solid move in the right direction for the Chester born world number 35, and this win has put him provisionally at number 17. Kicking on for the rest of the season will be his priority and a spot in the elite top 16 beckons.

The second result I must mention is the World 10-ball Championships. This event featuring the world’s best pool players was held out in the Phillipines with over 30 countries represented. In addition it had live TV coverage in Asia and a $400,000 prize fund. So why does nobody outside the industry realise that Britain has another world champion?

That’s right, Pontefract’s Darren Appleton won the title 13-11 against Chia-Ching Wu of Taipei. It is one of the most deserved wins on the curcuit and CueSport TV would like to offer our biggest congratulations to Darren on his victory.

Appleton is one of the hardest working professionals on the pool circuit and is becoming feared in every corner of the globe, this win cements his status as one of the top players in the world. He is a very likable character that truly believes in the sport he plays. He works so hard on the table and has put in many hours over the last couple of years honing his skills on the larger American tables (his background is of course English Pool). Once again well done Darren!

This win means that Britain now has two of the four available world titles and Europe has all 4!

  • World 9-ball Champion: Daryl Peach – England
  • World 10-ball Champion: Darren Appleton – England
  • World 8-ball Champion: Ralf Souquet – Germany
  • World 14.1 Champion: Niels Feijen – Holland

With this is further solidifies the UK’s position within the global pool scene, we now have two world champions, the European number 1 and at the time of writing England have reached the semi-finals of the World Cup of Pool, global domination is certainly on the cards, and the future also looks bright with the likes of Phil Burford, Jayson Shaw and Thomas Ainsworth-Smith making there way up the rankings as well.

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Ricardo Jones wins 10-ball at Mickey Flynn’s

August 18, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

The second of our live broadcasts at the weekend was the Mickey Flynn’s 10-ball Open.

The event featured 42 players, and with many of the notables on duty for GBR at the European Championships it was thrown wide open.

Again we were broadcasting it live and the technical issues of the Saturday did not come back to haunt us and everything ran very smoothly from our point of view!

The tournament kicked of at 12pm with 8 groups playing a round robin format, Tournament Director Ricardo Jones decided on a best-of-11 format with all racks played for the round robin stage. A decision that came back to haunt him as time became limited.

The group matches didn’t finish until around 8:30pm and then it was rushe to get all the matches in for a reasonable finish.

Races to 6 ensued for the KO stages and we were down to relative newcomer Matt Ford and Ricardo Jones in the final – to save on time a race-to-2 was decided for the final and Jones won it 2-0 taking the £300 first prize and Ford settling for £200.

The next one is in November and the group stage will be much shorter!!

Matches from this weekend will be available to view soon if you missed the live broadcast.

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Nail-Biting Finish to 10-Ball Challenge

August 18, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

Saturday 16th August saw CueSport TV visit Mickey Flynn’s in Cambridge for a £1000-per-man challenge match between Andy Nicholson and Australian snooker player Vinnie Calabrese. A match that was streamed live on the channel.

Before I go into the details of the match (which was great!) I must mention the difficulty we encountered this weekend!

The scheduled 10-ball pool challenge match was due to start at 7:30pm so we decided to arrive at the club at around 4pm to make sure we could set up the equipment and get a stream going to eliminate any problems later.

Things never go to plan! We could not establish an Internet connection which meant the Live pool broadcast was in jeopardy. As TV specialists and not network engineers it was causing some headache. Danny, one of the bar staff at the club, had some knowledge of the Internet and was immense in helping us set-up the feed. A mention must also go to his unknown friend that via telephone talked Danny through the IP address setup on the Mickey Flynn’s network. Eventually we established a connection with only 8 minutes to spare before the live stream!

Tense is not the word!

So getting back on topic. The match was 10-ball pool, played with call shot rules, this meant that every ball and pocket had to be nominated for the ball to be legal. Race-to-21 racks was the designated distance and winner breaks was the format.

Andy Nicholson started the match well and went into a 9-2 lead before faltering somewhat. Calabrese managed to win 15 of the next 20 racks giving him a 17-14 lead and dominance in a match that Andy looked as if he had covered.

Vinnie got a touch of nerves in the latter stages and allowed Andy to claw the scoreline back to 20-18 down.

After a couple of mistakes from Calabrese Nicholson pulled the match level (so much for my prediction of a 5 rack difference!) In the final rack he had the break and did what was neccessary to win the match and the £1000 cash payout.

The live match was also recorded and wil be available on CueSport TV this week!

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Two Live Events in One Weekend!

August 15, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

CueSport TV are this weekend broadcasting two seperate Live events from Mickey Flynn’s in Cambridge.

The first is a £1000-per-man 10-ball Challenge Match between Australian Snooker player Vincent Calabrese and the UK’s Andy Nicholson.

The match is a race to 21 racks and starts at 7:30pm UK time (2:30pm EST). The standard will be of the highest order and the game is expected to last 3 hours.

Mickey Flynn’s 10-ball Open

On sunday 17th August the action concentrates on the 40 player 10-ball Open – tournaments that are gaining massive reputation on the UK pool calendar. The last event attracted such notables as Neil Robertson (Australian snooker pro) and Darren Appleton.

The action starts at 10:30am UK time (5:30am EST) and runs until around 11:00pm (6:00pm EST)

Both live pool broadcasts are free to watch – simply login!

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