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2-6 June 20009
Biggest Televised Women's Pool Event Ever!
Dragon Promotions is pleased to announce its media partnership with ESPN Star Sports for the first Women's World 10-Ball Championship. The Women's World 10-Ball Championship will be broadcasted to more countries and viewers than any other women's event in the history of billiards. The event will garner 20 hours of live coverage on ESPN STAR Sports’ ESPN channel as well as an additional 20 hours of taped matches. The event takes place in Manila, Philippines at the SM Mall North Edsa June 2-6,2009. 48 top women pros from around the world will enter the event produced by Dragon Promotions. The historic event is supported by JBETpoker.net, ABS-CBN, SM Mall North Edsa, Bugsy Promotions and recognized by the BMPAP and BSCP.
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"ESPN Star Sports is pleased to be broadcasting the Women's World 10-Ball Championship. This is a historic event and we are looking forward to giving one of the best billiards events excellent coverage across Asia. We are pleased to be working with Dragon Promotions for this world class event" said a spokesperson.
ESPN STAR Sports has an audience reach of over 310 million viewers and is broadcast to 24 countries including the Philippines, Taiwan, China, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia.
With the combination of coverage from ESPN Star Sports and Filipino network giant ABS-CBN, the Women's World 10-Ball Championship will be seen in 40 countries worldwide. Over 40 hours of match coverage is scheduled. No women's billiards event in history has ever had so much televised airtime, especially live.
"The collaboration with ESPN Star Sports, ABS-CBN, and Dragon Promotions is really making this Women's World 10-Ball Championship unique in that the media attention is massive", says Cindy Lee, CEO of Dragon Promotions. "The TV network coverage is extraordinary, but also combined with the newspapers, radio, magazines, etc. The players who do well in this event are going to become very famous."
The historic event is considered to be the biggest women's sporting event of the year for the Philippines, and one of the biggest in Asia as it draws massive media attention with 40 hours of match coverage including 20 hours live on ESPN and equally in its local partner ABS-CBN, the leading TV channel of the Philippines. 48 women from around the globe will attend the event vying for $20,000 (1M) 1st place prize out of the $75,000 (3.75M) purse available. SM Mall North Edsa, Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila and JBETPOKER.net are some of the primary sponsors of the event.
"Billiards, the sport of the Philippines. The sport of the people." For more info email womensworld10ball@gmail.com
About ESPN STAR Sports
ESPN STAR Sports is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world’s leading cable and satellite broadcasters. As Asia's definitive and complete sports broadcaster and content provider, ESPN STAR Sports combines the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent companies – Walt Disney (ESPN, Inc.) and News Corporation Limited (STAR) – to deliver a diverse array of international and regional sports to viewers via its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.
ESPN STAR Sports showcases an unparalleled variety of premier live sports from around the globe 24 hours a day to a cumulative reach of more than 310 million viewers in Asia. ESPN STAR Sports has 17 networks covering 24 countries, each localised to deliver differentiated world-class premier sports programming to Asian viewers. This includes ESPN SEA, ESPN China, ESPN Hong Kong, ESPN India, ESPN Malaysia, ESPN Philippines, ESPN SEA 2, ESPN Taiwan, MBC-ESPN (Korea), STAR Sports Asia, STAR Sports Hong Kong, STAR Sports India, STAR Sports Malaysia, STAR Sports SEA, STAR Sports SEA 2, STAR Sports Taiwan, and STAR Cricket.
On the ground, the ESPN STAR Sports Event Management manages and promotes premier sporting events around Asia. ESPN STAR Sports aims to reach consumers at any time, any place and through all new media platforms, both internet and mobile. The multi-lingual, online platforms, espnstar.com, espnstar.com.cn and espnstar.com.tw and footballcrazy.tv interact with millions of users providing them with in-depth sports news, results and competitions. Developed for the sports fan that is constantly on the move, mobileESPN and STAR Sports Mobile delivers differentiated mobile content targeted at its various audiences. mobileESPN enables the serious sports fan to follow their favourite sports more closely than ever before with a combination of specially produced video news clips, in-depth news coverage and analysis. STAR Sports Mobile aims to provide interactive and entertaining opportunities to engage with sports, delivering exclusive video excerpts from leading football clubs Arsenal and Liverpool as well as highlights from STAR Sports original programmes covering opinions, instructional tips and the latest online game reviews.
Fisher & Ouschan Head European Syndicate for Women's World 10-Ball
Great Britain's Allison Fisher and Austria's Jasmin Ouschan are among the brightest stars from Europe that will be contesting to be the World 10-Ball Champion at SM Mall North Edsa June 2-6,2009. 48 top women pros from around the world will enter the historic event produced by Dragon Promotions. The event is supported by JBETpoker.net, ABS-CBN, SM Mall North Edsa, Bugsy Promotions and recognized by the BMPAP and BSCP.
Fisher is considered to be the greatest female billiards player ever in history by most experts, winning 72 world class titles. Fisher has been dominant for a decade with falling out of the #1 or #2 spot only once in 10 years. Fisher also has taken down top men pros such as USA Champion Johnny Archer, Hall of Famer Allen Hopkins, and former US Open Champion Tommy Kennedy. Jasmin Ouschan, the 22 year old pool wizard from Austria, won the World Games Gold Medal at 18 years old and has won many major titles already in her young career. Ouschan also has had a good record against top men players including wins over World Champion Mika Immonen and Oliver Ortmann. Ouschan holds the record for highest finish by a woman in a major men's event by placing 3rd at the 2008 World Straight Pool Championship.
Jasmin Ouschan will easily be one of the top ten favorites of the event
"Allison has as much composure as any man or woman I've encountered my entire life", observed Jay Helfert, billiard analyst and author.
Other top favorites from the west include 2008 Women's Player of the Year Kelly Fisher (England), Gerda Hofstatter (Austria), Spanish Champion Amalia Matas, and former #1 Karen Corr (Ireland). Corr for many years was considered to be Allison's Fisher only real rival on the women's tour. Other countries represented will be Czechoslovakia's Veronika Hubrtova, former European Champion Laetitia Dos Santos of France, Janine Schwan of Germany, and Tamara Trademakers of Netherlands.
The historic event is considered to be the biggest women's sporting event of the year for the Philippines, and will have massive media attention including 25 hours of live coverage on ABS-CBN, the leading TV channel of the Philippines. 48 women from around the globe will attend the event vying for $20,000 (1M) 1st place prize out of the $75,000 (3.75M) purse available. SM Mall North Edsa and JBETPOKER.net are some of the primary sponsors of the event.
"Billiards, the sport of the Philippines. The sport of the people."
Open qualifiers for the event will be held May 31 and June 1 in Manila. May 31 location will be set soon while June 1 will be set at SM Mall North Edsa. All players are welcomed to join to try to qualify for the event. There will be three qualifiers over the two days with three winners entered into the main 48 women field. For more info email womensworld10ball@gmail.com
Dragon Promotions is one of the leading producers of billiard programming in the world today. Dragon produces over 40 events a year airing on networks in the Philippines, USA, Korea, India, and Europe such as ABS-CBN, ESPN, MBC ESPN, XTM, XPORTS, and Euro Sport. Events include The Women's World 10-Ball Championship, The World 14.1 Championship, The Predator International 10-Ball Championship, King & Queen of Carom, Empress Cup, Pro Pool Schools, Women's Trickshot Challenge, World Junior 10-Ball Championships, Korea vs USA, and many more. Dragon also manages some of the world's best players including Mika Immonen, Jeanette Lee, Shanelle Loraine, Mike Davis, Yu Ram Cha, Raj Hundal, , Rodney Morris, Charlie Williams, and many more.
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