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2016 Mosconi Cup - All to play for in Kuwait

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Date: Wednesday, October 26 2016 @ 16:54:44 UTC
Topic: Mosconi Cup



2016 Mosconi Cup XXIII
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Way
London
Greater London
N22 7AY
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Tuesday-Friday 6-9 December 2016


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All to play for in Kuwait

WITH TEAM USA’s final selection being a straight shoot-out with three players contesting two spots, the European picture is far more complicated with the ‘World’ and ‘Combined’ list reaching their conclusion at next week’s Kuwait 9 Ball Championship. With Holland’s Niels Feijen already in the team after he topped the ‘Euro’ list earlier in the month, there are several players in contention for the final two coveted Mosconi Cup spots.

Mosconi Cup XXIII takes place at London’s Alexandra Palace from Tuesday to Friday 6th- 9th December and features two five-man teams representing America and Europe. The tournament comprises a series of singles and doubles matches with the first team to reach 11 points carrying off the famous trophy.



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2016 MOSCONI CUP - TEAM EUROPE

Jayson Shaw is the man to beat as he tops both outstanding ranking lists. With points awarded for a top 32 finish only, Shaw need only finish ahead of Albin Ouschan to maintain his lead on the World list. However if both Shaw and Ouschan flop in the event, then any one of David Alcaide, Francisco Sanchez Ruiz, Dennis Grabe, Alexander Kazakis,
Mario He or Mika Immonen could win through provided they reach the semi final or better.

On the Combined ranking, Shaw once again leads with Mark Gray the imminent threat 34 points behind. That means that Gray needs a quarter-final finish or better depending on whether Shaw makes it to the points stage. Should he fail to do that, David Alcaide has a chance but he will need to reach the final and hope Mark Gray fails to make the semi finals.

The point allocation for the Kuwait 9 Ball Open is: Champion – 80 pts; Runner-up – 67; Semi-finals – 53; Quarter-finals – 40; Last 16 – 27; Last 32 – 13.

In the eventuality that a single player finishes ahead on two or more of the lists, then the spots will go to the next highest placed player(s) on the Combined list. Should the second place on the Combined list be taken by an already qualified player, then the selection would go to the third placed player.







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2016 MOSCONI CUP is sponsored by Rasson Billiards who supply the Official Table. The cloth is supplied by Iwan Simonis and the Official Balls are Super Aramith by Saluc. Predator is the Official Cue of the event and Ultimate Team Gear provide all Mosconi Cup apparel.


2016 MOSCONI CUP - TEAM USA


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Final spots to be decided in Kuwait

WITH HIS RECENT win at the US Open – his fifth in total – Shane Van Boening has absolutely crushed the Team USA Mosconi Cup rankings, as he sealed his tenth appearance in the annual transatlantic tear-up. Van Boening is a whopping 157 points ahead of his nearest rival with just the final event to go – the Kuwait 9 Ball Open which gets underway next week.

He leads Skyler Woodward, who went pointless in Virginia, and now finishes on 248 points, having chosen to miss the final event of the season. In third place is Mike Dechaine, who leap-frogged Rodney Morris to move into the third automatic qualifying spot, with a 13th place finish at the Open.


Dechaine is 12 points behind second spot and 20 ahead of Morris and with both men playing in Kuwait there may well be a twist in the tail.

For Hall of Famer Morris to make the top three he needs to finish 20 points or more above Dechaine, or go past Woodward.

Best ways, Morris must reach the last 16 with Dechaine finishing out of the points to finish third, unless he reaches the quarter-finals in which case he will go ahead of Woodward regardless of where Dechaine finishes.

All Dechaine needs to do though, is just finish in the top 32 to go ahead of Woodward, and ensure his automatic spot in the side.

Following the conclusion of the Kuwait Open, the remaining two wildcards will be announced to complete the five-man team who will travel to London to attempt to win the Mosconi Cup for the first time since 2009.

Ranking after 27 events



Tickets for the Mosconi Cup are available from www.matchroompool.com

2016 MOSCONI CUP is sponsored by Rasson Billiards who supply the Official Table. The cloth is supplied by Iwan Simonis and the Official Balls are Super Aramith by Saluc. Predator is the Official Cue of the event and Ultimate Team Gear provide all Mosconi Cup apparel.















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