Matchroom Pool will have 30 ranking events in 2023

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The 2023 Nineball World Ranking schedule is provisionally set and will feature a minimum of 30 ranking events globally including 12 events from Matchroom in ground-breaking news that sees the largest calendar of Nineball events with the aim to keep growing. Ranking events will take place in all four corners of the world thanks to new and existing partnerships as Matchroom Pool continues to offer a transparent, ambitious, and unified plan for Nineball players.

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2023 will begin with back-to-back events in the USA with the Turning Stone Classic XXXIV (January 5-8) in Verona, NY followed up by the Diamond Derby City Classic Nineball Division (25-28 January) in Indiana ahead of the first blue ribbon event on the schedule from Matchroom. The World Pool Championship 2023 is set to take place in Kielce, Poland from February 1-5 as the best 128 players on the Nineball World Rankings go toe-to-toe for a slice of the $325,000 prize fund and the chance to become champion of the world.
 
In looking over the list, I see that there will be an English Open in addition to the UK Open. Also, there are several US events I haven't heard of before. Finally, the Eurotour seems to be on the list and I hope that means the calendar will be coordinated. In the past there were some conflicts between events on the list. It remains to be seen whether there will be conflicts with the Predator Pro Billiard Series.
 
Bob Jewett said:
In looking over the list, I see that there will be an English Open in addition to the UK Open. Also, there are several US events I haven't heard of before. Finally, the Eurotour seems to be on the list and I hope that means the calendar will be coordinated. In the past there were some conflicts between events on the list. It remains to be seen whether there will be conflicts with the Predator Pro Billiard Series.
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From the looks of the schedule and based on Matchroom's posture about the future, I don't think they will care. They are going to do what they think is best for pool and let the chips falls where they may, IMHO.

The event that intrigues me is the Connecticut Open which the schedule says is being presented by Eagle Eye. I am curious to know what Jayson has cooked up, if my powers of deduction are accurate.
 
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Nice to see so many events.
Will be interesting to see what Predator and WPA puts out.
Hopefully no clashes so the players can plan and not be forced to choose.
Certainly hope nobody tries to ban players if they play in anothers event.
 
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Bob Jewett said:
In looking over the list, I see that there will be an English Open in addition to the UK Open. Also, there are several US events I haven't heard of before. Finally, the Eurotour seems to be on the list and I hope that means the calendar will be coordinated. In the past there were some conflicts between events on the list. It remains to be seen whether there will be conflicts with the Predator Pro Billiard Series.
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maybe english open is a GB9 event. schedule doesn't say who the promoter is
 
telinoz said:
Nice to see so many events.
Will be interesting to see what Predator and WPA puts out.
Hopefully no clashes so the players can plan and not be forced to choose.
Certainly hope nobody tries to ban players if they play in anothers event.
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Predator (or CSI) already has most of all of their events "out" on the WPA calendar. The only think absent is it looks like no event in AZ. Obviously if they bring back the World 8 Ball it will be with all those Nov events they have on there.
 
Mama, do let your babies grow up and be pool players! :cool:

Finally, a legitimate tour is in the making for professional-caliber and aspiring pro players.

Interesting to see the Capital City Classic tournament in September 2023. Strawberry Brooks was the founder, and then the Wilson family took the reins and held several of these events, one in Lanham, MD and the other in Philly.

On the one hand, traveling overseas for the American pool player, as has been mentioned many times on this forum, will be a financial challenge if they do not have the backing of the North American governing body of professional pool and/or a sponsor who pays their way with cash and not product. On the other hand, a legitimate tour such as this just may be attract new American aspiring pros to take pool as a career seriously.

I have a question, though, about the tour chart. What is "T3C"? When I tried to look it up on Google, the only T3C I found was a cancer tumor stage 3. Of course, I know that's not it, but by my own admission, I'm not as advanced on internet abbreviations as others. <--- UPDATE: I found out the T3C is really TBC and means "to be continued."


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ACL said:
From the looks of the schedule and based on Matchroom's posture about the future, I don't think they will care. They are going to do what they think is best for pool and let the chips falls where they may, IMHO.
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That's how I see it.

Schedule conflicts with 10ball are a 100% certainty. Although it could possibly happen, I can't think of any reason that Matchroom would try to schedule around 10ball, unless they are begged to do so, in a few cases, by the most elite players.

The days of date protection are likely over as pool has, seemingly, outgrown them.
 
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maybe english open is a GB9 event. schedule doesn't say who the promoter is
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English Open sez: NINEBALL (major event), so I'm pretty sure it is Matchroom. May will be a nice time of year to visit. May also has four ranking events.
 
ACL said:
The event that intrigues me is the Connecticut Open which the schedule says is being presented by Eagle Eye. I am curious to know what Jayson has cooked up, if my powers of deduction are accurate.
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Unless he rents out a convention space, It's nothing but a nineball event just like the one he held in his room when it first opened. There is not going to be anything special about it.

As for this announcement, I do not know if this will make more players come out of the woodwork to want to pursue pool as a career, but at least it's a start.
 
Positively Ralf said:
Unless he rents out a convention space, It's nothing but a nineball event just like the one he held in his room when it first opened. There is not going to be anything special about it.

As for this announcement, I do not know if this will make more players come out of the woodwork to want to pursue pool as a career, but at least it's a start.
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I think more important than whether specific added events draw the players out of the woodwork is the impression Matchroom is creating by forming these partnerships and adding new events that this a big formal tour that fits together and logically progresses to major events. That is what will draw larger sponsors. Larger sponsors will draw players out of the woodwork. A very positive next step for Matchroom and pool!
 
The profess-ers got their work cut out. This could open the doors for private American concerns fronting their own players.
 
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