dmgwalsh said:
There was a round robin among the top eight finishers of the straight pool challenge to be played on the accustats table when available and the straight pool room. ...
Here are some more details on the results:
Straight Pool at the Derby City Classic
by Bob Jewett
The third year of the 14.1 Challenge at the DCC saw some changes
and a surprise winner. Darren Appleton from England came out on
top in 2008, in spite of never having played in a straight pool
tournament before.
The prelims were the same format as last year with each
contestant getting 12 tries to get a high run starting with a
good break shot. The finals were changed to a single-elimination
tournament of the top eight runners to allow video taping of
matches by Accu-stats.
The top prelim score was by Mika Immonen who ran 147 balls. He
came in as the defending champion having scored a 160 in the
finals in 2007. The other top scores were 140 by Fabio Petroni
from Italy, 126 by Niels Feijen, 107 by Corey Deuel, 100 by John
Schmidt, 98 by Thorsten Hohmann, 92 by Ralf Souquet, and a
barely-squeeked-in 73 by Appleton. Feijen had two other runs
over 100 and only took 10 of his permitted 12 tries. Hohmann had
three runs of 98, just missing the magic 100.
This year saw the addition of a women's division, with Allison
Fisher taking top honors with a 56. Jeanette Lee was second with
a 42 and Kim Shaw was third with a 32. Fisher won $1000 for her
effort.
The final eight men went on to a single elimination tournament
with races to 150. This allowed taping of matches by Accu-stats
and wider exposure of this great game. In the round of 8,
Schmidt beat Deuel 150-52, Feijen routed Hohmann 150-9, Petroni
beat Souquet 150-40 and last-seeded Appleton upset defending champ
and number 1 seed Immonen 150-38. Appleton lost the lag and was
surprised that he was the one who had to break. Then he needed
some help from Conrad Burkman to understand the opening break
requirements. Once into the running part of the game, he seemed
to get his bearings quickly.
The Feijen-Hohmann match took only 3 innings as Niels ran 48, 30
and 72 and out. Feijen continued his run at the end to try for
the Accu-stats bonus of $500 for a taped run of 100 or more, but
only got a few more balls.
In the semis, Appleton beat Schmidt 150-86 while Feijen beat
Petroni 150-120 by running 126 balls in his last two innings to
overcome a 70-ball deficit.
Appleton came into the finals against Feijen a prohibitive
underdog, but grit and determination count for a lot. There was
no run over 37 in the 17-inning final. At the end with Darren
needing three balls with four on the table, Niels got him
into an exchange of fouls to force Darren into the next rack.
A misjudged safe by Niels let Darren back in, and he got the
needed break shot and the win to become the 2008 Derby City
Classic Straight Pool Challenge Champion.
With $10,000 added and 25 total entries at $100 each the prize fund
was $12,500. $600 in daily prizes were awarded for the four days
of prelims and there was a $1000 bonus for high run overall.
The payouts including the daily prizes were:
$1900 1st Appleton
$2000 2nd Feijen
$1400 3rd Schmidt
$1200 3rd Petroni
$2000 5th Immonen (ran 147)
$1000 5th Hohmann
$900 5th Deuel
$900 5th Souquet
$100 each Bob Hunter and Marc Vidal
$1000 Allison Fisher
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No kidding