Immonen wins Challenge of the Champions
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Another $ 50 000 in the bag... Not bad to win $ 90 000 in one week!
Real BAD by the promotors to have only 4 players in the field, and none Americans, when it is played in America. I don't get it...
Real BAD by the promotors to have only 4 players in the field, and none Americans, when it is played in America. I don't get it...
That settles it then. Mika has clinched 2nd place for Player of the Year honors behind me.
MIKA IMMONEN doesn't sound like American. besides, which team did he played for in the Mosconi Cup?
good for him but 4 players doesnt sound like a challenge of champions to me
Yehey!! Another European won!!! huhummm (Yawn) yeah right. More like Challenge the Current US Champion.
They must be able to find 32 guys for this to make it a real event.
totaly agree there are plenty of players they could invite
Its winner take all, and you have to win a world championship to get invited I thought. US has not won any world championships this year.
The International Challenge of Champions, a winner-take-all tournament, is really more of an exhibition recorded for later showing on ESPN -- albeit an exhibition with a large prize for one person.
It used to be eight players, with four single-elimination matches on the first day and the semi-finals and finals on the second day. This year they cut the number of players and the prize money in half -- four players and $25,000 -- and did it in just three matches on one day.
The promoter -- Billiards International, Ltd (Matt Braun) -- determines who is invited to play. It's normally one player from each of the eight (now four) countries represented.
Billiards International, Ltd. also presents the International Tournament of Champions (four women) each year, and, in the past, has presented the Skins Billiards Championship and the Texas Hold'Em Billiards Championship (the latter two with Allen Hopkins).