3 Cushion Tournament: Sang Lee International Open 2007 8/13 to 8/19

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If you guys like to see what real 3-Cushion is about, please come by NYC this next week!

Prize Fund:

$80,000* with the top 20 finishers receiving prizes:

1 $12,000 6 $4,800 11 $2,800 16 $1,600
2 9,600 7 4,400 12 2,400 17 1,500
3 8,000 8 4,000 13 2,100 18 1,400
4 6,400 9 3,600 14 1,800 19 1,300
5 5,600 10 3,200 15 1,700 20 1,200

High Run $300 Best Game $300


Format:

Qualifications: 80 players 10 Groups of 8 players with the 3 top finishers from each Group advancing
Semifinals: 40 players in the Semifinals include 30 advancing from the Qualifications plus 5 Seeds, 3 auction winners and 2 lotto winners 5 Groups of 8 players with 4 from each Semifinal Group advance to Finals
Finals: Top 10 Semifinalists advance to the A final; the next 10 to the B final

A & B Finals 10 player Round Robin

All Groups play round-robin. Match length is 25 points in the Qualifications, 35 points in the Semifinals and ?B? Finals and 40 points in the ?A? Finals. More information is provided on pages 7-8.

Info From Tournament Director

July 10, 2007

Hello Billiard Friends

On August 13-19, 2007, Carom Caf? Billiards in Flushing, NY will be hosting the third annual Sang Lee International Open 3-cushion tournament. This tournament is a memorial tribute to the late billiard legend and recent BCA Hall of Fame Inductee, Sang Chun Lee.

In this event, a 7-day grueling round-robin format, you will see the top players from around the world including our featured players:

• Torbjörn Blomdahl of Sweden
• Frédéric Caudron of Belgium
• Raymond Ceulemans of Belgium
• Daniel Sanchez of Spain
• Semih Sayginer of Turkey

And our top US players:
• Sonny Cho
• Michael Kang
• Hugo Patiño
• Pedro Piedrabuena
• Mazin Shooni
• Miguel Torres


We will conclude the event in our customary fashion: a 3-Cushion Billiards Artistic Exhibition by the grandmaster, Semih Sayginer. Watch him in action on ESPN2, August 7th, 7:00-8:00pm. You won?t believe your eyes. Come to Carom Caf? and see him perform live on August 19th, and then stay for the buffet dinner which is included in the admission for the final day.

Ticket, hotel and tournament information can be found on our website:
www.SangLeeInternational.com

Sincere regards,
Charles Brown
Carom Caf? Billiards
Tournament Director
[646] 528-3238

Video, Video, Video

They have removed four pool tables in the back arena area to install one "TV table" for final games between top players. A profession production team with multiple cameras and a crane will be there. The outcome is really fantastic as witnessed in the 2006 videos, some of the videos will be available for sale on site this year.

There will be a lot of videotaping in and around the event. Jan Carl of CaromTV will be producing some of the in house matches between good players. He always have great commentators which makes the videos very, very educational. The more impressive thing is: 100% of the profit from the video sales goes to the funding for future tournaments at CaromCafe!

Other than the webcame on table#6 (check CaromTV.com), I will take some photos and videos around players and fun people, will keep you all posted!

The Qualification round is about to finish today, please check here for the current score updates!

http://www.sangleeinternational.com/assets/PDF/2007qualifications.pdf

All the superstars are in the house now. We are going to see something really exciting soon