Wu Chia Ching is World 8-Ball Champ for 2005!!!

jsp said:
To answer my own question...I found some info regarding this tournament in this japanese website...
http://www.onthehill.jp/j-top.html

Too bad I can't read japanese. The tournament is apparently called the 2005 Green Time Super Cup. All the Filipino and Taiwanese greats are there, and it also includes Strickland and Souquet. Buddha162, since you live in Taiwan, why don't you start a thread on this tournament and provide some daily updates. It would be greatly appreciated. :)
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This link will take you to the World 8 Ball Championships. Results and articles about the matches in English:

www.acesme.com

Then click on "press releases."
 
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SplicedPoints said:
I just finished watching him on TV tonight. He just got back from Dubai in the morning and is currently playing in an invitational tournament in Taipei. He came from behind to win his first match. I can't remember exactly how to spell his opponent's name, but it's the same Taiwanese guy who played at the World 8 Ball Championships. Souqet, Strickland, Kuo, Manalo, and Chao lost their 1 match also. Yang, Wu, Chang Pei Wei, Pagulayan, Reyes, and Bustamante won their 1st match. Takahashi lost both matches he played on the first day.

There was a quick interview after Wu's match. The commentator asked Wu how he was able to win the World 8 Ball Championships. Wu roughly replied "I had no idea how to play 8 ball before I went to Dubai because I never really played the game. I learned how to really play the game by watching the other players play while I was at Dubai." I don't think he was being cocky when answering the question, not just because he doesn't look like a cocky kid, but because nobody plays 8 ball much in Taiwan.
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Chia Ching Wu is known as "Little Genius" in Taipei, Taiwan. I wonder why?

He should also be called the "come-back" kid.

At the recent 9-Ball WPC, Wu was down 16-12 to Po-Cheng Kuo but won the Championship with a 17-16 score. Kuo made an error and never got back to the table.

Then at the 8 Ball Championship, Wu was down to Daryl Peach 9-5 in the semi-finals "before Wu mounted an incredible comeback to win 10-9. Peach played exceptionally well but never really had the opportunity to finish the match as Wu controlled the table brilliantly in the closing racks."

Two World Championships in the same year, and within a couple of months...Very impressive for a 16 year-old.
 
juegabillar said:
Another link to the Championships...

http://www.pro9.co.uk/html/article.php?sid=491
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Thanks juegabillar, but I was actually asking about the tournament in Taiwan that's going on right now. SplicedPoints brought it up a couple posts ago. All the Taiwanese and Filipino superstars are playing right now, and it also include Souquet and Strickland. I knew it was a bad idea going off subject, but thanks anyways :).
 
Last year's prize fund

rmaran01 said:
How much $$$$ did he win????
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$100,000 = THE PRIZE MONEY

Winner $20,000
Runner-up $10,000
3rd & 4th $5,000
5th - 8th $3,400
9th - 16th $2,200
17th - 32nd $1,200
33rd - 64th $300

Will try to find out this year's prizes...
 
jsp said:
Thanks juegabillar, but I was actually asking about the tournament in Taiwan that's going on right now. SplicedPoints brought it up a couple posts ago. All the Taiwanese and Filipino superstars are playing right now, and it also include Souquet and Strickland. I knew it was a bad idea going off subject, but thanks anyways :).
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2005 Super Cup is very pleased to announce GREEN TIME SUPER CUP. King Car Food is the proud sponsor for the pool-billiard tournament among the 14 Warriors, including 7 World 9-ball Champions and 2 World Games Gold Medlists. It is not merely a tournament about Champion of the Champion, It is about "The KING who Conquers the Warrior Times"!

For names and brief info about these 14 Warriors across the world coming to Taipei, please visit:

The official web site: (English)

http://www.cues.com.tw/event/05superCup/en/

Link to players:

http://www.cues.com.tw/event/05superCup/player/en/
 
How did this topic get into this thread. Raj will not just be making up the numbers at this year's Mosconi Cup. He will not be fazed by the occasion, the cameras or any of the US team members or the Vegas audience. CW, ES, RM, JA, JJ or SP hold no fear for this cool customer. Pair him up with Marcus and watch them go!
 
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