Should Mosconi Cup add an Asian Team?

Jive

Jive

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It's been in my mind for the longest time and I'm not starting this thread because I'm Asian but because there are many great Asian players and I'm just surprise it hasn't struck them that adding Asian players could really spice up the whole game and entice more viewers.

I genuinely think the Mosconi cup would be ALOT more fun to watch if there was an Asian team in the mix and the team can be named.....wait for it.......drum rolls.......TEAM ASIA!! Taaadaaaaaaa!! That's how u do it!

I can imagine a team made up of the best from Philippine, Taiwan, Japan and China. That would be something to watch and that's where I'll put money.

People complain about pool dying and all but I think the Mosconi cup is the most interesting and rowdy pool sport on TV that will ever live and that's cool. And lets face it, we all know the money is in Asia right now, particularly in China. Having an Asian team could really spark more interest here and it'll lead to more sponsorship deals, more high paying competitions...the list goes on.

Why wouldn't the organizers add one more team to the mix? The game might run longer than usual but they'd just have to change the format a little and in the end we'd have 1st, 2nd and 3rd place instead of just winner and loser...

I love the Mosconi Cup and I really really look forward to the day that an Asian team can be formed.

What do you guys think?
 
no, if it aint broke dont fix it,

a different event, team format from Matchroom would be great!!!!
 
Have been saying something similar in the chat on streams for awhile. Have thrown out the suggestion of the USA and Europe combining their teams and going against a team from Asia.

:wink:
 
Fatboy said:
no, if it aint broke dont fix it,

a different event, team format from Matchroom would be great!!!!
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I completely on the ain't broken don't fix stuff team. However I'm not saying the Mosconi needs fixing, rather I think about how it can be even more global and spice things up.

It's like a married couple. They're happy and all and no where near broken, but doesn't mean they can't have new things in life to spice things up a little.

There will always be only one Mosconi Cup and its kind of irreplaceable, so doing another event might not have the same results.
 
Agreed, it would be a new event. Still, an Asian team (perhaps Ko Pin Yi, Dennis Orcullo, Alex Pagulayan, JL Chang and Carlo Biado) would be way too strong for my taste and would be near unbeatable.

The Philippines vs the rest of the world might work better.

Give me Orcullo, Pagulayan, Vann Corteza, Bustamante, and Biado

vs

Shane Van Boening, Darren Appleton, JL Chang, Niels Feijen and Ko Pin Yi

Now that would be quite a battle.
 
OOOOOOORRRR rrr !!

Start something new ! lol lmao me sayin this, thats a hooooot !

I just thinking, dont let these ideas keep popin up with out throwin in your 2 cents.

Why do we (USA) have to fend off one whole continent let alone 2 of em.

ok then;

Europe

Asia

North America

"Thee Continental Cup"

Bottom line is if Asains come in with a team we are allowed Canada.

Expand team size to 10 players.

It could be like pools own olympics.

hmmm, "Thee Continental Cue Sports Olympics"

:groucho: gotta go
 
Jive said:
I completely on the ain't broken don't fix stuff team. However I'm not saying the Mosconi needs fixing, rather I think about how it can be even more global and spice things up.

It's like a married couple. They're happy and all and no where near broken, but doesn't mean they can't have new things in life to spice things up a little.

There will always be only one Mosconi Cup and its kind of irreplaceable, so doing another event might not have the same results.
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has to be a new event were on year 20 with the current format, to add a 3rd team and do a round robin or something would destroy the history of the event, IMO

Im all for team pool, I believe no matter what happens with BB one thing we (most of us) agree on is team pool is cool, so having a asian team would be great, they are world beaters(we all agree on that-i hope).

I think there will be more team pool in the near future in some form, hopefully matchroom is behind it, they get it right. and 100% Asia should have a team,
 
oldzilla said:
OOOOOOORRRR rrr !!

Start something new ! lol lmao me sayin this, thats a hooooot !

I just thinking, dont let these ideas keep popin up with out throwin in your 2 cents.

Why do we (USA) have to fend off one whole continent let alone 2 of em.

ok then;

Europe

Asia

North America

"Thee Continental Cup"

Bottom line is if Asains come in with a team we are allowed Canada.

Expand team size to 10 players.

It could be like pools own olympics.

hmmm, "Thee Continental Cue Sports Olympics"

:groucho: gotta go
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I just think it's downright silly that in Mosconi Cup that the entire American including Canada (and Mexico if theres any good players there..) isn't considered a whole. I mean Team Europe have players using different currencies, speak different languages and live in different timezones...

I think the Mosconi Cup was conceived many many years ago (20 years according to Fatboy, I've no idea..) so things have changed ALOT during which.
 
Fatboy said:
has to be a new event were on year 20 with the current format, to add a 3rd team and do a round robin or something would destroy the history of the event, IMO

Im all for team pool, I believe no matter what happens with BB one thing we (most of us) agree on is team pool is cool, so having a asian team would be great, they are world beaters(we all agree on that-i hope).

I think there will be more team pool in the near future in some form, hopefully matchroom is behind it, they get it right. and 100% Asia should have a team,
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I think it's a little like the Olympics.

This sporting event has history, no one can argue about that.

However the first first Olympics was nothing more than half naked man running and throwing sticks and stones. I might have dated it a little too far back but I'm just saying with time the event has evolved. What was once just a sporting event even holds political and economical influence now. Ofcourse Mosconi would be far from have such influence but again I'm just saying that I don't see things as changes perse, rather I see them as evolution.

Olympics now see so many different sports that there once never were there and have also removed some. I believe that the committee votes to remove some events as well and the staging country has some say in it.

I don't see the Mosconi as cash cow to milk or anything like that, if the organizers make money then I'm glad they did and they deserve to make alot. Rather I see the Mosconi Cup as a very good mascot for pool as a whole. I like the rowdy and unsettling crowd in the games, the camera showing spectators holding that bottle of beer and looking all sh*tfaced, the players letting their nerves get the best of them, the emotions of the players and the spectators all uncensored... I truly think this game deserves and should be on a more global platform and to do so it needs to be more international.

Again we're all just talking here..not like it'd make any difference but it'll be fun to see what others think.
 
The Mosconi cup is now too old to change. Too much history.

In answer to questions about the history:

In its earliest days, the Mosconi Cup was created by Sky Sports and Matchroom Sport as an exhibition event to increase public awareness of pool in the United Kingdom. In the first year of competition some of the WPBA's top players played alongside the men in their respective teams. These included Franziska Stark from Germany, Allison Fisher from England, Jeanette Lee and Vivian Villarreal from the United States.
As time progressed, the event evolved from its exhibition nature into a much more serious and professional tournament, and earning a place in the event has acquired a great deal of prestige. Early on many snooker players participated, but of these only Steve Davis remained into the event's more serious era, bowing out when the event began to clash with snooker's UK Championship (for which he appeared as both a player and a BBC commentator).
After Davis' withdrawal, all players had to earn an invitation through their performances at other events, meaning that no more snooker players appeared until 2007, when Tony Drago earned a place by virtue of his performance on the European Pool Tour, and won the tournament's Most Valuable Player award for his unbeaten run in the singles matches..
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voiceofreason said:
The Mosconi cup is now too old to change. Too much history.

In answer to questions about the history:
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Actually I think the Olympics is much older. Don't think age is a hindrance, is a matter of gelling new and old together. Again it's just my opinion.
 
JC said:
It's the Mosconi Cup, not the Deng Xiaoping cup silly

JC
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I would think with the Asian team being formed there won't be more than one mainland china Chinese in the team if the judging criteria is invitational through their rankings. May not even be a mainland china Chinese to begin with, Taiwanese yes but that's not mainland China.
 
Modeled after

voiceofreason said:
The Mosconi cup is now too old to change. Too much history.

In answer to questions about the history:
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The format was actually modeled a little bit like the Ryder Cup Squads in Golf.

Whether or not there is a desire to alter that format, and for what benefit, is yet to be seen.

I already enjoy seeing the Phillipine and Asian Players come to the US and play in the major tournaments. I watched the stream on POV Pool of the West Coast Series, and they were well represented.

With China's development we will likely see more major tournaments over there, and possibly a "Mizerak Cup" as an extension of the Mosconi Cup. Just a thought.

cajunfats
 
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