Champions’ pool (8 members for team Russia) live, May 26 - June 20

[Vahmurka]

'Champion's pool' got to be the name of this invitational event for 8 players.

Ruslan Chinakhov and Konstantin Stepanov must be more familiar to international audience. But other six are a good match to them.

Links to watch, whichever works for you:
https://www.youtube.com/@WorldOfPool
https://www.youtube.com/@BilliardSportsRussia
https://matchtv.ru/channel/matchtv

First round of matches:
May 26 - Konstantin Stepanov vs Andrey Seroshtan
May 27 - Max Dudanets vs Arseny Kovalerchik
May 28 - Sergey Lutsker vs Evgeny Buslaev
May 29 - Konstantin Zolotilov vs Ruslan Chinakhov

Every match is supposed to start at 10 p.m. MSK, which equals to 3 p.m. EDT, 8 p.m. BST or 9 p.m. CEST (use a time converter for your region).

 

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Not gonna post every single match here, as long as all of them are available via the links posted above. But there is some notable, like:

Most quality gamewise of first 4 matches, round one:

Just for the sake of the players you might remember, Stepanov and Dudanets (as a youngster he used to defeat Pagz The Lion at the DCC):

Most recent match, losers bracker, round two:

 

[Vahmurka]

Due to scheduling over other sports on TV channel, remaining matches are to be held a week earlier. Hence the final match will be played on June 14th

 

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Why the double racks?