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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!

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Last September/October I spent 10 days out in the fantastic Isle of Man providing live coverage of the Festival of Pool from the wonderful setting of the Villa Marina in Douglas.

Whilst out at Bridlington recently for the EBA Blackball World Pool Masters, I had a good chat with festival promoter Ross McInnes about the potential for this years festival.

Well as a quick heads up I can tell you that the festival goes ahead at the same time as last year (25th Sept-4th Oct) and this one will be bigger and better in a number of ways. The festival last year was not as big as it could have been as the European Championships were being held in Selsea at the same time.

Well, that is the first change, the European Championships will be in the Isle of Man during the course of the festival.

In addition a new competition will also be played to give a more international flavour to the event and the Blackball game. South Africa are sending a team over and will compete against a team from Europe in the inter-continental cup.

All of this action will be offered live on CueSport TV over the 10 days.

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