2016 World 9-Ball Championship

snucar said:
It's amazing how the western world is not capable to stage the biggest pool tournament in the world. After a a couple of smooth, more or less, years, the Qataris are back to their incompetent best. No info, no draws, no stream. Ted Lerner is nowhere to be found too. The game is dead and buried.
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The "western world" is capable of staging it, but no one is prepared to lose the money involved in doing so. Matchroom may have had a model that made economic sense (i.e., maybe it was profitable for them to stage it and broadcast via Sky Sports), but for whatever reason they stopped doing it. Who else is going to do it?

The draws for the first qualifier was posted above.

I too wish that Kozoom was back streaming it and would like to know what happened. But if they do get two table streamed via YouTube, that is more "coverage" than you get at even the US Open - although the quality of the stream content (live scoring, commentary, etc.) remains in question.
 
AL KASS's website only shows programming for today and tomorrow- no mention of the World Championship anywhere. They have an article detailing the Qatari players but no mention of program scheduling.

You can stream the first 4 AL KASS channels live, but without any schedule, I don't know when or which channel.
 
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snucar said:
It's amazing how the western world is not capable to stage the biggest pool tournament in the world. After a a couple of smooth, more or less, years, the Qataris are back to their incompetent best. No info, no draws, no stream. Ted Lerner is nowhere to be found too. The game is dead and buried.
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I'm sure CSI could hold it, but then it would be played on bar boxes.
 
GideonF said:
The "western world" is capable of staging it, but no one is prepared to lose the money involved in doing so. Matchroom may have had a model that made economic sense (i.e., maybe it was profitable for them to stage it and broadcast via Sky Sports), but for whatever reason they stopped doing it. Who else is going to do it?

The draws for the first qualifier was posted above.

I too wish that Kozoom was back streaming it and would like to know what happened. But if they do get two table streamed via YouTube, that is more "coverage" than you get at even the US Open - although the quality of the stream content (live scoring, commentary, etc.) remains in question.
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Matchroom stopped because of the development of the 10 ball world championship. For some reason they did not like that.
 
tduncan said:
Matchroom stopped because of the development of the 10 ball world championship. For some reason they did not like that.
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From memory, their issue was they were marketing the World 9 ball as THE World Pool Championships. The development of world 10 ball, 8 ball and 14.1 championships watered down their product. So they focused their attention on the World Pool Masters and the World Cup of Pool.
 
Bank it said:
This is great. Hold the WC in some forsaken outpost of the world no will travel to & don't stream it either. Sounds about right for pool. SMH
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since 2010 W9B, Filipinos, Taiwanese, Chinese and Japanese players have traveled to Doha to participate. in fact, a lot of Filipino players decided to reside in Qatar and teach pool or work as house pros. Apparently, Qatar wants to promote pool in their country.
the past 2 years have been awesome when Kozoom streamed it. not sure why they're not doing it now.

fact: all major WPA events are streamed for free except for the US Open 9-ball.
 
Cameron Smith said:
From memory, their issue was they were marketing the World 9 ball as THE World Pool Championships. The development of world 10 ball, 8 ball and 14.1 championships watered down their product. So they focused their attention on the World Pool Masters and the World Cup of Pool.
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Sounds like what I remember & i can't say I don't blame them. They really took it to another level.
 
1st stage (Qualifiers) 25-28July 2016

25-28July 2016 (1st stage qualifiers)
Each player gets 3 chances. Each round, 128 players divided into 4 groups of 32. To qualify into main draw (which starts 30July), player has to win his group (single elimination) . i.e. he has to win 5 consecutive matches (race to 7, alternate breaks)
Total only 12 will qualify into main draw from 128 players

Brackets
1st chance/1st round
https://www.facebook.com/onthehill2011/photos/pcb.1066657263419382/1066656653419443/?type=3&theater

2nd round/ 2nd chance
https://www.facebook.com/onthehill2....1469489837./1067499976668444/?type=3&theater

3rd round/3rd chance
https://www.facebook.com/onthehill2....1469489656./1067501143334994/?type=3&theater

Notables
Ramil Gallego
Yukio (ex-World 9 ball Champ)
Babica
Jeff Ignacio
Omar Al Shaheen
Raymond Faraon
Toru Kuribayashi
Israel Rota
Jeff de Luna
Marc Vidal
Roberto Gomez
Wu Kun Lin

Fewer familiar players in qualifiers this year compared to last year
 
spartan said:
25-28July 2016 (1st stage qualifiers)
Each player gets 3 chances. Each round, 128 players divided into 4 groups of 32. To qualify into main draw (which starts 30July), player has to win his group (single elimination) . i.e. he has to win 5 consecutive matches (race to 7, alternate breaks)
Total only 12 will qualify into main draw from 128 players

Notables
Ramil Gallego
Yukio (ex-World 9 ball Champ)
Babica
Jeff Ignacio
Omar Al Shaheen
Raymond Faraon
Toru Kuribayashi
Israel Rota
Jeff de Luna
Marc Vidal
Roberto Gomez
Wu Kun Lin

Fewer familiar players in qualifiers this year compared to last year
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cmon. he already won this event. why does he have to qualify? isnt he "qualified" enough? :grin-square:
 
PoolBum said:
I'll settle for one table as long as the stream works. I love watching the final rounds of the World 9-Ball Championship. To me it's still the most prestigious title in pool.
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If its like it was a couple of years ago, it was unwatchable.
 
You can see the results of the 1st round qualifiers on this link. Just click on the brackets.

https://www.facebook.com/onthehill2011/

Jeff Ignacio is one match away (assuming he wins) in his bracket. On the other hand, Roberto Gomez and Jeff De Luna will match up against each other. The winner advances to the next rounds.
 
Al Kass TV? lol 3 years ago they were saying there's gonna be a live streaming from the last 64 and on and nothing happened. Then they said from last 16 and on and nothing happened. Then the semis and guess what? Nothing happened. We eventually got a glimpse of the final and like someone said, it was completely unwatchable. I've checked their schedule and there no pool matches to be found. They're incompetent as much as WPA is. It seems like Ted Lerner isn't working for WPA anymore too, does anyone has any info on that? The guy seems to have disappeared this year.

Worst thing is Qatar still has the tournament for the next year too. This is the only tournament not to missed by any pool fan and the idiots in Qatar and WPA managed to ruin everything once AGAIN. Pathetic!
 
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Daz was asking about the stream, and Waleed Majid, one of the players from Qatar, confirmed therecis no stream this year. What a setback.

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That's just ridiculous . Even the qualifiers day one brackets are filled out up to the winner of each group. So no idea who got in.this is a huge shame .
 
Maybe the W9B Championships is being held in someone's basement in Qatar that's why they're not streaming it...
 
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