World Cup of Pool to Stream on ESPN3

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I just wanted to remind everyone that there are only 2 weeks to go until the World Cup of Pool (September 22-27). ESPN3 will be streaming the event, which means as long as you have access to ESPN3, you can watch the events live or on demand for up to 30 days afterwards. If you don't have access to ESPN3, I'm sure the matches will end up on YouTube shortly after each production has aired.

Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine will be representing the USA. I believe that we have a good chance to make it deep into the tournament if not take first. Other notable teams, in my opinion, are England A, Holland, Taiwan, and Germany.

The entire field is as follows:
1. England A, Darren Appleton & Karl Boyes
2. Philippines, Carlo Biado & Warren Kiamco
3. Holland, Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg
4. Taiwan, Ko Pin Yi & Chang Yu Lung
5. Austria, Albin Ouschan & Mario He
6. USA, Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine
7. Greece, Nikos Ekonomopoulos & Alexander Kazakis
8. China, Li Hewen & Liu Haitao
9. Germany, Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann
10. Finland, Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen
11. Spain, Francisco Diaz-Pizarro & Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
12. Canada, Jason Klatt & John Morra
13. Poland, Mateusz Sniegocki & Wojciech Szewczyk
14. Japan, Naoyuki Oi & Toru Kuribayashi
15. England B, Mark Gray & Daryl Peach
16. Korea, Jeong Young Hwa & Ryu Seung Wu
17. Malaysia, Ibrahim Bin Amir & AN Other
18. Sweden, Marcus Chamat & Christian Sparrenloev-Fischer
19. Italy, Danieli Corrieri & Antonio Benvenuto
20. New Zealand, Matt Edwards & Nick Pera
21. France, Stephan Cohen & Alex Montpelier
22. Czech Republic, Roman Hybler & Michal Gavenciak
23. Belgium, Serge Das & Olivier Mortier
24. Indonesia, Muhammad Simanjuntak & Irsal Nasution
25. Romania, Babken Melkonyan & Ioan Ladanyi
26. Singapore, Aloysius Yapp & Chan Keng Kwang
27. Qatar, Waleed Majid & Bashar Hussain
28. Peru, Cristopher Tevez & Manuel Chau
29. Estonia, Dennis Grabe & Erki Erm
30. India, Raj Hundal & Amar Kang
31. Russia, Ruslan Chinakhov & Konstantin Stepanov
32. Australia, Robby Foldvari & Chris Calabrese
 
Solomon said:
I just wanted to remind everyone that there are only 2 weeks to go until the World Cup of Pool (September 22-27). ESPN3 will be streaming the event, which means as long as you have access to ESPN3, you can watch the events live or on demand for up to 30 days afterwards. If you don't have access to ESPN3, I'm sure the matches will end up on YouTube shortly after each production has aired.

Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine will be representing the USA. I believe that we have a good chance to make it deep into the tournament if not take first. Other notable teams, in my opinion, are England A, Holland, Taiwan, and Germany.

The entire field is as follows:
1. England A, Darren Appleton & Karl Boyes
2. Philippines, Carlo Biado & Warren Kiamco
3. Holland, Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg
4. Taiwan, Ko Pin Yi & Chang Yu Lung
5. Austria, Albin Ouschan & Mario He
6. USA, Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine
7. Greece, Nikos Ekonomopoulos & Alexander Kazakis
8. China, Li Hewen & Liu Haitao
9. Germany, Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann
10. Finland, Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen
11. Spain, Francisco Diaz-Pizarro & Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
12. Canada, Jason Klatt & John Morra
13. Poland, Mateusz Sniegocki & Wojciech Szewczyk
14. Japan, Naoyuki Oi & Toru Kuribayashi
15. England B, Mark Gray & Daryl Peach
16. Korea, Jeong Young Hwa & Ryu Seung Wu
17. Malaysia, Ibrahim Bin Amir & AN Other
18. Sweden, Marcus Chamat & Christian Sparrenloev-Fischer
19. Italy, Danieli Corrieri & Antonio Benvenuto
20. New Zealand, Matt Edwards & Nick Pera
21. France, Stephan Cohen & Alex Montpelier
22. Czech Republic, Roman Hybler & Michal Gavenciak
23. Belgium, Serge Das & Olivier Mortier
24. Indonesia, Muhammad Simanjuntak & Irsal Nasution
25. Romania, Babken Melkonyan & Ioan Ladanyi
26. Singapore, Aloysius Yapp & Chan Keng Kwang
27. Qatar, Waleed Majid & Bashar Hussain
28. Peru, Cristopher Tevez & Manuel Chau
29. Estonia, Dennis Grabe & Erki Erm
30. India, Raj Hundal & Amar Kang
31. Russia, Ruslan Chinakhov & Konstantin Stepanov
32. Australia, Robby Foldvari & Chris Calabrese
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Always wondered why England gets two teams... Would be fun to see pinoys, Taiwanese and Chinese with two teams also....
 
Solomon said:
I just wanted to remind everyone that there are only 2 weeks to go until the World Cup of Pool (September 22-27). ESPN3 will be streaming the event, which means as long as you have access to ESPN3, you can watch the events live or on demand for up to 30 days afterwards. If you don't have access to ESPN3, I'm sure the matches will end up on YouTube shortly after each production has aired.

Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine will be representing the USA. I believe that we have a good chance to make it deep into the tournament if not take first. Other notable teams, in my opinion, are England A, Holland, Taiwan, and Germany.

The entire field is as follows:
1. England A, Darren Appleton & Karl Boyes
2. Philippines, Carlo Biado & Warren Kiamco
3. Holland, Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg
4. Taiwan, Ko Pin Yi & Chang Yu Lung
5. Austria, Albin Ouschan & Mario He
6. USA, Shane Van Boening & Mike Dechaine
7. Greece, Nikos Ekonomopoulos & Alexander Kazakis
8. China, Li Hewen & Liu Haitao
9. Germany, Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann
10. Finland, Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen
11. Spain, Francisco Diaz-Pizarro & Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
12. Canada, Jason Klatt & John Morra
13. Poland, Mateusz Sniegocki & Wojciech Szewczyk
14. Japan, Naoyuki Oi & Toru Kuribayashi
15. England B, Mark Gray & Daryl Peach
16. Korea, Jeong Young Hwa & Ryu Seung Wu
17. Malaysia, Ibrahim Bin Amir & AN Other
18. Sweden, Marcus Chamat & Christian Sparrenloev-Fischer
19. Italy, Danieli Corrieri & Antonio Benvenuto
20. New Zealand, Matt Edwards & Nick Pera
21. France, Stephan Cohen & Alex Montpelier
22. Czech Republic, Roman Hybler & Michal Gavenciak
23. Belgium, Serge Das & Olivier Mortier
24. Indonesia, Muhammad Simanjuntak & Irsal Nasution
25. Romania, Babken Melkonyan & Ioan Ladanyi
26. Singapore, Aloysius Yapp & Chan Keng Kwang
27. Qatar, Waleed Majid & Bashar Hussain
28. Peru, Cristopher Tevez & Manuel Chau
29. Estonia, Dennis Grabe & Erki Erm
30. India, Raj Hundal & Amar Kang
31. Russia, Ruslan Chinakhov & Konstantin Stepanov
32. Australia, Robby Foldvari & Chris Calabrese
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GREAT POST! Thanks for sharing, (nice avatar (C.M.)), don't forget about Finland and Austria, maybe even India to go deep, Amar's playing strong along with Mika out on Oscar's Mezz West State Tour
 
molinatx4206 said:
Always wondered why England gets two teams... Would be fun to see pinoys, Taiwanese and Chinese with two teams also....
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I think it's because the event is being held in England? I'm not sure. When it was being held in the Philippines, they had a team A and Team B. In 2009 when Reyes and Busty won, the team of Alcano/Orcullo were semifinalists. So my guess is that the home country gets two teams. I may be completely wrong though.

Edit: Just checked on wiki, when it was held in 2007 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Team A was Neils/Nick and Team B was Alex Lely/Diks.

Looks like the only 4 places that it's ever been held at were Phillipines, England, Netherlands, and Wales. Wales was the only location that didn't get two teams. This was also the very first World Cup of Pool.
 
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Kris_b1104 said:
I think it's because the event is being held in England? I'm not sure. When it was being held in the Philippines, they had a team A and Team B. In 2009 when Reyes and Busty won, the team of Alcano/Orcullo were semifinalists. So my guess is that the home country gets two teams. I may be completely wrong though.

Edit: Just checked on wiki, when it was held in 2007 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Team A was Neils/Nick and Team B was Alex Lely/Diks.
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That makes sense.... Still think should be a more fair way of letting a country have more than one team besides being a host country.
 
David Marcus said:
GREAT POST! Thanks for sharing, (nice avatar (C.M.)), don't forget about Finland and Austria, maybe even India to go deep, Amar's playing strong along with Mika out on Oscar's Mezz West State Tour
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2015 World Cup of Pool Schedule – All matches are race to 7, except quarter and semi-finals (to 9) and the final (to 10).

Tuesday 22nd afternoon 12.30
R1 Korea (16) v Malaysia
R1 China (8) v Romania
R1 Canada (12) v France

Tuesday 22nd evening 18.30
R1 Germany (9) v Indonesia
R1 England A (1) v Australia
R1 Austria (5) v Peru

Wednesday 23rd afternoon 12.30
R1 Poland (13) v New Zealand
R1 Taiwan (4) v Estonia
R1 Japan (14) v Italy

Wednesday 23rd evening 18.30
R1 USA (6) v Qatar
R1 Holland (3) v India
R1 Philippines (2) v Russia

Thursday 24th afternoon 12.30
R1 Spain (11) v Czech Republic
R1 Finland (10) v Belgium
R1 Greece (7) v Singapore

Thursday 24th evening 18.30
R1 England B (15) v Sweden
R2 Holland (3) / India v Japan (14) / Italy
R2 England A (1) / Australia v Korea (16) / Malaysia

Friday 25th afternoon 12.30
R2 Austria (5) / Peru v Canada (12) / France
R2 China (8) / Romania v Germany (9) / Indonesia
R2 Poland (13) / New Zealand v Taiwan (4) v Estonia

Friday 25th evening 18.30
R2 Spain (11) / Czech Republic v USA (6) / Qatar
R2 Greece (7) / Singapore v Finland (10) / Belgium
R2 England B (15) / Sweden v Philippines (2) / Russia

Saturday 26th afternoon 13.30
Quarter-Final 1
Quarter-Final 2

Saturday 26th evening 18.30
Quarter-Final 3
Quarter-Final 4

Sunday 27th afternoon 13.30
Semi-Final 1
Semi-Final 2

Sunday 27th evening 18.30
The Final
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I think Finland and Austria got tougher draws. Not that they won't make it deep, but Finland (the 10 seed) might have to play Greece (the 7 seed) and Austria (the 5 seed) may have to play Canada.

The teams are seeded in the order that I listed them in my original post by the way.
 
Kris_b1104 said:
...Looks like the only 4 places that it's ever been held at were Phillipines, England, Netherlands, and Wales. Wales was the only location that didn't get two teams. This was also the very first World Cup of Pool.
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The hosting country always gets 2 teams. When it was held in Wales in 2006, England got 2 teams.
 
Solomon said:
The hosting country always gets 2 teams. When it was held in Wales in 2006, England got 2 teams.
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That is correct but unfair since England is not part of Wales. Great Britain is divided into 3 countries, England, Scotland and Wales. So why does England get two teams if they are separate? They're joined by land but are considered two separate countries, like USA and Canada. In the case of 2006, Wales was the hosting country but gave England two teams, which is an entirely different country. Guess there aren't any good players in Wales. Wales only had 1 team that year.
 
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Strong field. I can imagine about twelve of these teams winning it. This is always a fantastic event. On paper, I'd rate Holland and Taiwan the teams to beat.
 
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Poolmanis said:
I think your list is good but there is always one who will surprise...
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The only pick that I really struggled with was Canada over Austria. I wouldn't be surprised to see Austria make it, but I'm still picking Canada.
 
Just wanted to remind everyone that the start of the World Cup of Pool is less than a week away. This has to be my second favorite tournament of the year (next to the Mosconi Cup) because it is one of the few tournaments that is televised live.
 
Shane & Mike D. have a very good chance of going deep as they are both in good stroke. As long as they don't bump heads they should do well. Playing doubles is not for just any two thrown together. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
Shane & Mike D. have a very good chance of going deep as they are both in good stroke. As long as they don't bump heads they should do well. Playing doubles is not for just any two thrown together. Johnnyt
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I think whoever did the seeding was smarter this year in comparison to last year. The way the brackets are set up this year, USA and England A have a chance of facing each other in the finals. Last year I think they met in the quarter finals.

I'm surprised that Taiwan doesn't have both Ko Pin brothers representing. The two of them would have been a force to reckon with.
 
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