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8 Ball Super Tour – Complete First Round Draw/Results

September 5, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The complete first round draw and results are below you can watch the tournament live here:

Cuesport TV – LIVE

Top Half

Neil Raybone 8 v 4 Dan Bishop
Neil Ford w/o v 0 Sunny Bale
Vikas 0 v w/o Steve Petty
Mark Burr w/o v 0 BYE
Neil Walsh 6 v 8 Tom Courtney
Joe O’Connor 8 v 2 Harry Irwin
Katie Henrick 8 v 1 Mike Miller
Avi Singh 8 v 1 Ben Davies
Anthony Doble 8 v 2 Craig Bennett
Gary Martin 2 v 8 James Gibson
BYE v BYE
Mick Hill 0 v w/o Dan Darlington
Josh Corkett w/o v BYE
Mike Day 8 v 7 Phil Hoskins
Steve Long 0 v w/o Nicky Scott
Simon Doyle w/o v 0 Lee Clough
Simond Ward 8 v 5 Carl Fitzsimon
Ben Mackie 5 v 8 Dave Williams
Clint I’Anson 8 v 4 Andy Canning
Pete Hendes 3 v 8 Partab Singh
Dan Davy w/o v 0 Mark Farnsworth
Phil Naylor 7 v 8 Jason Bates
Scott Smith w/o v BYE
Carl Morris 8 v 4 Mark Grant
Ben Flack 8 v 4 Emma Cunningham
Mickey Lambert 8 v 4 Max Nosko
Alex O’Donoghue 8 v 4 Dave Goodwin
John Roe 8 v 3 Scott Baldock
Daryl Lovegrove 0 v w/o Harry Hayman
Daz Hollobone w/o v 0 Mark Curnow
Ben Fortey w/o v BYE
Ronan McCarthy 8 v 6 Oly Bale

Bottom Half

Chris Melling y v John Sullivan
Ian Crosbie 8 v 4 Kye Overton
Vinny Allen 8 v 7 Neil Briton
Rob Chilton w/o v 0 Kieran Hawkins
Jez Graham (Pepsi) 8 v 6 Martin Ray
Darren Jeffery w/o v 0 BYE
Rich Wharton 7 v 8 Carl Rowe
Adam Davies 8 v 4 Harjeet Singh
Gareth Hibbott 8 v 4 Neil Toms
Tem Dixon 8 v 5 Neil Davey
Nicky Griffiths w/o v 0 Josh Bostock
Jamie Graham w/o v BYE
Danny Quartermaine w/o v 0 Matt Bull
Chris McGee w/0 v BYE
Ed Rumsey v John Sullivan
Danny Rosswarne v Craig Marsh
Tom Cousins v Tom Ford
Ben Holley w/o v 0 Stephen Harris
Karl Sutton 8 v 0 Silas Antoni
Nicky Dodds v Jack Whelan
Jamie Ross v Jordan Shepherd
Steve Crosbie v Lawrence Beech
Ben Swinnerton w/o v BYE
Steve O’Connor v Darren Begley
Steve Munroe v Tony Joannon
Ben Clark v Ben Francis
Rob Butterworth v Lee Thacker
Richard Cradduck v Keith Brewer
Arfan dad v Andy O’Hara
Kyle Edwards w/o v BYE
Darren Stickley v Ken Edwards
Phil Harrison w/o v BYE

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Live 10-Ball Pool Success

August 20, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The last two weekends I have made the trip to Club 147 in Leicester. Probably the best pool club in the country with a management team fit for promoting pool and with it their own business.

Both weekends featured live broadcasts, the first on Cuesport TV and the second on new channel American Pool TV.

On both occassions I was on hand, with my wife, to broadcast two different challenge match evenings. This is something we have been banging on about in the UK for some time. We have, without doubt, got the best pool players in the world at this time. It was great to see both Darkside Promotions and Tonic Promotions creating these nights of entertainment.

There was a lot of similarity between the two promotions, the undercard matches were 9-ball featuring players from the lower ranks in the UK and the feature matches were both 10-ball.

I think the real success here in my eyes is that finally we produced a stream of quality, as ever there is work to do to improve, but the response from viewers has been excellent.

10-ball does seem to drag on a bit though, 3am and 5am finishes, I kid you not.

There needs to be more of these events but we as a company need to further promote the events long in advance. I would also say that there is a call to shorten the races.

The matches from both of the events mentioned will all be available on the channel shortly so keep checking back.

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Super Response to Super Tour

August 3, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

At the weekend (1st/2nd August) I travelled out to Keynsham Snooker Centre for the first event in this years 8-Ball Super Tour.

This World Rules 8-Ball tour carries a huge £48,000 in prize money across the four events and as a result has pulled in all the best players in the land.

It was also going to be a test for us at Cuesport TV.

We had not had a full two-day weekend live event since we launched the subscriptions and were not sure what the response would be like, it turned out to be an excellent response. We have never ever believed that all of our 22,000 monthly viewers would pay, however, in order to drive the business forward in a tough climate it was better to take less viewers that appreciated the product enough to pay.

This happened and so a big thanks to all of the viewers that did support us this weekend.

On a side note Carl Morris beat Ronan McCarthy 8-6 to lift the title and £2700.00 first prize.

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Live Snooker and Live Pool in the Week Ahead

July 28, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

This week is the start of our busiest period of the year so far.

On Thursday we have the first two quarter finals and the first semi final of the TCC Snooker Pro-am. This week the feature match live on Cuesport TV will be Ryan Day v Matthew Stevens. This will be followed up by the semi final where the winner of the aforementioned match will play either Darren Morgan or defending champion Lee Walker.

At the weekend (1st-2nd August) we have the eagerly awaited first tour stop of the 8-ball Super Tour (This was the Oracle Super Tour last year).

The cream of the 8-ball crop come out to play in this £44,000 guaranteed World Rules series. Newly crowned WEPF World 8-ball Pool Champion, Phil Harrison, will be in action plus former champions Gareth Potts, Mick Hill and Carl Morris. In addition to the players of championship pedigree a myriad of tournament winners, like Simon Ward, Tom Cousins, Craig Marsh, Ben Davies, Ben Flack, Steve Munro and Lee Clough will also be in attendance.

Both of these events and more are available as part of a Cuesport TV subscription which can be bought from £2.90.

For further events throughout August visit the Live Event Schedule.

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Immonen Wins Qatar Open But Who Saw It?

July 7, 2009 / The_Teach / One comment

I will get the news out of the way first. Mika Immonen has won the third World Ranking event of the year, The Qatar International 9-ball Open, with a 13-10 victory over Taiwans Ko Pin-Yi.

In addition, by reaching the semi finals, Darren Appleton, has gained enough points to become the first ever British World Number 1 player. Congratulations to both players.

What I really want to mention though is the lack of International coverage of such a prestigious event, $40,000 was paid to the winner and the world’s best players were in attendance. There was regular live scoring and updating of the tournament sheet but in this day and age fans want to watch tournaments like this.

My understanding is that the event was broadcast in Qatar and that a live stream was supplied. Nobody that I know of actually got the live stream working. It is no good using a technology that nobody else can tap into.

With my next comment I don’t want to sound bitter but we approached the organisers in the first instance back in February/March 2008 for last years event. They wanted stupid money for something that had not been done before, even though all we would do is take a feed from the broadcaster and pump it out to the world.

This year there was no reply! These events need to be seen, whether that be through our technology or somebody elses it needs to be robust and of a standard that most of the Internet public can use. Cuesport TV is of course this solution but it is difficult trying to convince rights holders what can be done without them wanting rediculous sums of money for something that as yet it not worth what they are asking.

The future of TV, and in my opinion broadcasting of niche sports like pool and billiards, lies with the Internet. Vendors and rights holders need to grasp this now and actually need to take some risks. A company like ours can take a satellite feed of an International event and broadcast it worldwide at very high streaming quality for a fraction of the cost of traditional TV. The exposure of the sport would potentially be massive, the risk comes from not wanting up front payments, afterall the event is already being broadcast by a TV station in the home territory. It needs rev-share agreements to come into force. Get this right and licence fee’s can be discussed in future years.

Who else tried using the Qatar Open Live Stream? Did you get it to work?

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Subscriptions Have Landed!

July 1, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

As of today you can purchase a Cuesport TV Subscription.

There are two types; a pass (one-off payment) and a subscription (recurring payment).

In order to purchase one you will need to do the following:

1. Login to Cuesport TV
2. Look at the package list and decide which is for you.
3. Purchase Credits (Find it at the bottom under Your Account)
4. Apply those credits to the subscription period you require.

In the future the credit system will be removed to allow more traditional purchasing and also allow purchase via SMS text message.

SPECIAL OFFERS
Until the end of Sunday July 5th you will be able to by the following launch offers:

1 Month Pass – £5.00 (Saving £1.90)
3 Month Pass – £12.50 (Saving £4.40)
6 Month Pass – £20.00 (Saving £9.90)

All of these special offers are non-recurring so when it finishes you will have to purchase another package.

Purchase Now and save money!

Buy a Subscription

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Raj ‘Hitman’ Hundal Faces Tough Test

June 15, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

June 20th 2009 will see the very much anticipated £1000 per-man 10 ball challenge between Raj ‘Hitman’ Hundal and Ricardo ‘Indiana’ Jones.

Raj Hundal, the 2005 World Pool Masters Champion and regular on the International tournament scene, is rarely seen playing in one-on-one challenge matches. A player that is flamboyant and exciting and believes in hitting the break hard will come up against a UK based player he has known for over 10 years.

Ricardo ‘Indiana’ Jones is the house-pro at top Cambridge pool venue Mickey Flynn’s and is regularly seen playing challenge matches against some of Europe’s top players. Most recently Ricardo lost a very tight match against Dutchman Alex Lely. This particular money match went hill-hill. Jones, who has also represented the UK in the World Pool Championships in the past is probably regarded as the underdog on paper.

Jones recently commented “…alot of practice is required because I know I’m gonna have to produce a near fautless display to win…I, like him [Raj Hundal] consider myself part of the old-skool, the way American Pool used to be played with powerful breaks and great shot making.”

It is going to be an absolutely cracking match and Ricardo Jones is not a player to be underestimated and Raj will have to work hard if he is to win the match. There is due to be a return match and this is already pencilled in for Hounslow, the home of Raj Hundal, but lets get this one out of the way first.

The match is being played for £1000-per-man and starts at 7pm (UK time) it is a race-to-25 that is expected to go close to the wire – the match is being shown live on pay-per-view by WebTV channel Cuesport TV. You can purchase the match from just £2.95 ($4.75) which will allow you 24 hour access to the channels subscription service.

Visit: Cuesport TV for further information.

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Legend’s Tour – Leicester – Last 16 Onwards…

June 14, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The Legend’s Tour returned this weekend with 32 players from all across the UK. Ross McInnes won event one back in April and is favourite to lift event 2 as well. You can find the draw updated below for the knockout stages:

Last 16 Draw

  • Mick McGoldrick 5 v 0 Karl Clarke
  • Chris Karaniki 5 v 4 Stuart King
  • Steve Chambers 0 v 5 Ross McInnes
  • Ralf Adcock 2 v 5 Wayne Dutton
  • Harry Patel 5 v Andy Lyndsay
  • John Day 5 v Carl Fitzsimon
  • Martin Rothwell 1 v 5 Roger Blank
  • Maltese Joe 5 v 2 Steve Cook

Watch it live here: http://www.cuesport.tv/LegendsTour-Event2-Leicester-Live

Quarter Finals

  • McGoldrick 1 v 5 Maltese Joe
  • McInnes 5 v 3 Dutton
  • Patel 2 v 5 Day
  • Blank 1 v 0 Karaniki

Semi Final

  • Maltese Joe v John Day
  • Ross McInnes v Karaniki/Blank
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Legend’s Pool Tour Live from Leicester

June 12, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

Cuesport TV are continuing their support of the brand new Legend’s Pool Tour that will be live this weekend from Club147 in Leicester.

The series developed by Pat O’Kane and Gary Taylor has attracted a lot of interest with many over 45’s wanting to get in on the action. The stars of the 1980’s pool scene have returned to competitive action to remember friends who have passed away and of course to have a fantastic time, a buffet is always laid on and drinking is encouraged.

Club147 is the host of round 2 in the series of 4 events and winner last time out Ross McInnes will be looking to double up. Looking to stop him in his pursuit of back-to-back titles is Martin Rothwell, runner-up in event 1, Pat O’Kane, Charlie Shaw and Maltese Joe Barbera. All of these players were fixtures in the televised tournaments of the 1980’s so it is great to see them returning to action.

You to can get in on this action too by watching it live and exclusive on Cuesport TV over the 13th and 14th June. Coverage is from 12pm-6pm on day one and from 12pm until close on the final day.

Action will be competitive so please do not be put off by the over-45′s moniker attached to the tournament. The last event in Basingstoke was highly competitive with every player wanting to get their name on the trophy.

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Predator International 10-ball Well Underway

May 15, 2009 / The_Teach / One comment

The 9th Annual Predator International 10-ball Pool championships, being held at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, is well underway.

The event won by Tony Drago in 2008 is a favourite amongst pool players and has once again attracted a very high quality field of international pool playing stars.

The tournament is split into two sections the double elimination concluded last night and play will resume today from the Last 32 single elimination stage. The defending champion is through on the winners side and is joined by a whole host of British players, including Darren Appleton, recent winner of the World Pool Masters.

The last 32 Draw is as follows (British players in Bold):

  • Gomez (PHI) v Williams (USA)
  • Schmidt (USA) v Alcaide (SPA)
  • Drago (MAL) v Orcollo (PHI)
  • Folan (GBR) v Luat (PHI)
  • Deuel (USA) v Peach (GBR)
  • Majid (GBR) v Hohmann (GER)
  • Van den Berg (HOL) v Morris (USA)
  • Kiamco (PHI) v Takenaka (JAP)
  • Immonen (FIN) v Ortmann (GER)
  • Moore (USA) v Souquet (GER)
  • Putnam (USA) v A. Fisher (GBR)
  • Gama (POR) v Archer (USA)
  • Boyes (GBR) v Ouschan (AUT)
  • Robles (USA) v Cha (KOR)
  • Appleton (GBR) v Dominguez (USA)
  • Pagaluyan (PHI) v Facquet (FRA)

One interesting point to make is that three female players have made it through on the losers side to qualify for the knockout stages. Britain’s Alison Fisher, Austria’s Jasmin Ouschan and Korea’s Yu Ram Cha.

Updates over the weekend.

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