2014 Womens Challenge of Champions-Harra's San Diego

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On October 8th the Women's Challenge of Champions will be held at Harra's in San Diego. Winner take all $17K. The four contestants are Allison Fisher, Ga-Young Kim, Karen Corr and Kelly Fisher.

I am quite surprised that has been very little or no publicity on this event! This will be tape delayed broadcast by ESPN at a later unspecified date.

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Wedge said:
On October 8th the Women's Challenge of Champions will be held at Harra's in San Diego. Winner take all $17K. The four contestants are Allison Fisher, Ga-Young Kim, Karen Corr and Kelly Fisher.

I am quite surprised that has been very little or no publicity on this event! This will be tape delayed broadcast by ESPN at a later unspecified date.

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Last one they had was like 1 hr from my house and I did not know about it till it was over.

They went from 8 to 4 and prize went from 50k to 25k now at 17k. Soon they'll get a roll of quarters and a 50% off coupon for Taco Bell.
 
For women, it's called the International Tournament of Champions. (The International Challenge of Champions was the men's event, which was not played in 2013.)

The 2013 Tournament was held in Springfield, MA and was won by Kelly Fisher. The first (and only) prize was reported as $17,500, but the AzB Results for Kelly do not include that win.
 
AtLarge said:
For women, it's called the International Tournament of Champions. (The International Challenge of Champions was the men's event, which was not played in 2013.)

The 2013 Tournament was held in Springfield, MA and was won by Kelly Fisher. The first (and only) prize was reported as $17,500, but the AzB Results for Kelly do not include that win.
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I thought they had the exact same clone of it as the men a while back, was the one last year the first one they had for the women? I know they had something back in the 80s that I have a video of that was absolutely horrible. I think it was also called International Tournament or something very similar. They had several girls from the US and some Asians, not sure if any Europeans where involved.

The camera work missed 50% of the shots because they swung the cameras around the table zooming in on the ball instead of showing the table or would zoom in on the girls shooting instead of the shot. I am pretty sure Ronnie Allan was the commentator along with some girl who did not know anything about pool.
 
Tickets?

Anybody know how to get tickets to the event? I live in the area and would love to go. My wife wants to see the Women play, and I at least am up for any of them.
 
hang-the-9 said:
I thought they had the exact same clone of it as the men a while back, was the one last year the first one they had for the women? I know they had something back in the 80s that I have a video of that was absolutely horrible. I think it was also called International Tournament or something very similar. They had several girls from the US and some Asians, not sure if any Europeans where involved.

The camera work missed 50% of the shots because they swung the cameras around the table zooming in on the ball instead of showing the table or would zoom in on the girls shooting instead of the shot. I am pretty sure Ronnie Allan was the commentator along with some girl who did not know anything about pool.
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The men's event (Challenge of Champions), women's event (Tournament of Champions), and The ESPN World Cup of Trick Shots (USA vs. Europe), all promoted by Matt Braun, were held for many years at the Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Then, in 2013, that changed. Here's a post of mine from about 8 months ago:

AtLarge said:
Matt Braun and his wife sold Billiards International and all of its intellectual properties to Gregg Hovey (former Olhausen president) two years ago.

For 2013, the men's Challenge of Champions was dropped from the events produced by Billiards International for showing on ESPN. The Women's Tournament of Champions, the World Cup of Trick Shots, and Trick Shot Magic were played in 2013 and were moved from the Mohegan Sun casino in CT to Springfield, MA. Hovey's current deal with ESPN calls for just 9 hours of programming per year (3 events). The women's and trick shot events always drew higher ratings than the men's event, which, therefore, was axed.

Hovey is hopeful that he will be able to add events for 2014 and bring back the Challenge of Champions.

[Info drawn from an article in the December, 2013 Billiards Digest.]
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I see Trick Shot Magic is on the calendar for October 9 in San Diego, so perhaps Hovey is bringing the men, women, and tricksters all together again this year in San Diego.
 
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