WORLD 10-BALL TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP (6-11 Sep), Klagenfurt, Austria

[spartan]

List of 24 confirmed teams
Favorites would have to be :
Austria
Taiwan
UK
Germany
Philippines
Spain

Am surprised WPA World #5 (was #2 before) is not playing for Finland. Also Zielinski missing for Poland.
Why no Alex and John Morra for Canada? No Oi for Japan

 

[BeiberLvr]

I'd go with Austria, UK, or Spain to win it all.

 

[jasonlaus]

If the US team has to travel more than 5 miles from home they should just stay home.

Who is J Tate???

 

[VarmintKong]

Joey Tate? I thought he was only 16 or so? What a great opportunity for him if it is. He can flat out play.

 

[spartan]

I'd go with Austria, UK, or Spain to win it all.

On paper, Austria,Taiwan,UK, Philippines are the strongest and first favorites simply cos they have the best women players in the field. The sole woman player in the team is key cos she can contribute 1.5 points (1 point for 1st match Women's Single and 0.5 point for 3rd set Mixed Doubles)

Germany, Spain are second favorites

 

[spartan]

BRACKETS
https://probilliardseries.com/event/1678/
8 Seeded Teams
Austria A
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Chinese Taipei
Netherlands
Philippines
Poland

The 16 unseeded teams play Round 1 and seeded teams will join in subsequent round.
Start with Double elimination. Quarterfinals onwards will be single elimination.
Free Stream (2 tables on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/WorldBilliardTV and https://streamstak.com/billiardtv/ ). All other tables available for subscription at Kozoom

 

[skogstokig]

Am surprised WPA World #5 (was #2 before) is not playing for Finland. Also Zielinski missing for Poland.
Why no Alex and John Morra for Canada? No Oi for Japan

since the men have such a deep field anyway i feel it's gonna come down to the women. you can swap appleton with melling or imran but really the difference between the women makes kelly the big name. i'm going with team UK.

 

[spartan]

DAY 1 Live Stream Schedule
Free Stream (2 tables on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/WorldBilliardTV and https://streamstak.com/billiardtv/ ).
Women's World 10 Ball championship also going on. (Brackets at https://probilliardseries.com/event/1677/ )
Day 1 starts with Women's 10 Ball from 9am Austria time (3am EST) followed by World 10 Ball Teams starts from 7pm Austria time (1pm EST) with Austria B vs USA and Serbia vs Japan

 

[spartan]

Round 1 (best of 5 sets)

Austria B (Max Lechner/Daniel Guttenberger/Lena Primus)
Vs
USA (Tyler Styer/Joey Tate/ April Larson)

Now playing 1st set Women's singles Lena Primus vs April Larson (Race to 4)

 

[skogstokig]

what little i saw of the women 10-ball championship was embarrassingly poor play.

but this ongoing team match is entertaining. april larson is quite impressive so far. i have seen her before but never on a tv table. plays like she belongs there

 

[spartan]

Round 1 (best of 5 sets)

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Serbia (Pecelj/ Klasovic/Sarac)
Vs
Japan (Yoshioka/Kuribayashi/Hiraguchi)

Now playing 1st set Women's singles Bojana Sarac vs Yuki Hiraguchi (Race to 4)


BRACKETS

2022 Predator World Teams championship

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[skogstokig]

4-0 april. very promising player

 

[Scrunge19]

April and Joey’s luggage was lost so the whole team is using Tyler’s cues today. Hopefully the airline can get them their luggage ASAP.

 

[Jimmorrison]

4-0 april. very promising player

April Larson is a really nice person, and she works hard at her craft. Played against her in a regional doubles tournament, a few years ago, she was great!

 

[sjm]

Guessing it will come down to the play of the women, leading me to predict that either UK with Kelly Fisher or Austria A with Jasmin Ouschan, both of whom can be expected to dominate, will win this.

 

[Jimmorrison]

You are probably right. It will be interesting to see how April does. She looks pretty good so far.

 

[iusedtoberich]

What in the world is this event? ps, is the WPA giving them a hard time about using the word "World" in their title, or they only reserve that for CW. (I agree with them btw, I just find it strange they never say a word about it except for CW's events).

 

[iusedtoberich]

They asked my little sister to play Team Finland(she is current n1 ranked by far) but she could not arrange work stuff so short notice. Too bad..
She still play under her level on international events though.

So are you a nature or nurture family?

 

[sjm]

What in the world is this event? ps, is the WPA giving them a hard time about using the word "World" in their title, or they only reserve that for CW. (I agree with them btw, I just find it strange they never say a word about it except for CW's events).

The issue with the CW events was that they were presented and staged as if they were true World Championships even in years where they failed (or did not attempt) to gain sanctioning. For example, when Appleton won, they played a record with "God Save the Queen" as he received his medal, despite the fact that the event was not a sanctioned world championship that year. I don't believe that any other event producer has even attempted to misrepresent their event in a similar manner.

 

[sjm]

April Larson is a really nice person, and she works hard at her craft. Played against her in a regional doubles tournament, a few years ago, she was great!

Yes, I've had the pleasure of meeting her. She's a pretty straight shooter and her 657 Fargo places her sixth among American women. Wishing her the best.