What if?

[BRussell]

Yes but this is of course completely irrelevant to any informal "rules" regarding eligibility. It is just as easy for Americans to gain residence in the UK as it is for Appleton and Shaw and co to reside in the USA. Neil Robertson and many a Chinese snooker player reside in the UK but we would never dream of calling them British or asking them to play for us. Their allegiance in any international event would be to their country of origin/where they grew up. Rightly so.

Rightly so, except when it's not.

My entire point was to show that in some cases it's been the country of origin and in some cases the country of residence that has determined Mosconi team membership. But you deleted that contrasting clause when you quoted me, didn't you?

 

[BRussell]

There is a big difference between a resident and a citizen, the rules are very clear And as far as "majority" goes you totally forgot about Netherlands and also Finland, Mika has been on the team only 15times

What rules, do you mean Matchroom's rules? There are no published rules. You keep making it sound like there are rules somewhere that Matchroom is following, but they're not. I'm fine with that, and fine with the flexibility. But let's not pretend there are clear rules governing this and if we just look them up we can see it.

Yes Mika has been on Team Europe a lot, and Feijen, but it's still true that over half of the composition of Mosconi Teams over the years have been from Germany and the UK.

 

[hang-the-9]

Here is my thought, since it does not really matter what we think about what will happen and I like having opinions and thoughts LOL

If you are born in a country, that is a random event. You did nothing to pick the fact that you are there.

If you move to a country and even in some cases become a citizen of that country you CHOSE that country to live in. Thus it trumps any accidental birth place you may have as your CHOICE of place you live in.

So should you represent the country your parents had sex in, or where you want and picked to live?

I was born in Lithuania, my parents moved here when I was 8, but I consider myself an American. I was in the US military, if I was asked what country flag I would want on my grave, it would be the US, if there was a war I would fight on the US side, if I was good enough to play on the Mosconi Cup team, I would not play for Europe even though I was born there, even if I was told Europe or nothing.

For Mosconi Cup, you either live in the area you are playing for, or are at least a 75% resident in that country and only come to US for tournaments or something.