Tourneys
Topic: World Team Championships 2012

Apparently the World Team Championships WILL finally return on June 30th-6th July 2012 and will be hosted by... CHINA!

Finally Team GB will get to defend their title.

Apparently it may be that the teams will be mixed this year, with 3 men, and one female player, and possibly one reserve.

UK$80,000 for the winning team, and the disciplines will be 8ball, 9ball, and 10ball.

This info has all come via Darren Appleton!


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Yep, it's confirmed!

World Teams Championship

30 June to 6 July - Beijing

Prize fund: USD 300,000 (Winners USD 80,000)

In brief, this event will consist of 32 teams, 4 players (3 men & 1 woman) per team. There is an option for a team to have 5 or 6 players, but no player can play in more than 2 matches, and the female player must play in the 9-Ball and 10-Ball disciplines.

16 teams will receive automatic invites, 14 teams based on the current WPA men's rankings and 2 teams from the host country (China). Those countries are Japan, Chinese Taipei, Great Britain, Netherlands, Philippines, Germany, USA, Finland, Korea, Canada, Vietnam, France, Croatia, Sweden and China (2).

First stage of the event will be played in groups, 8 groups of 4 teams, with 1 team seeded into each group. Those seeded teams will be, again based on the current WPA men's rankings; Japan, Chinese Taipei, Great Britain, Netherlands, Philippines, Germany and China (2). The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the knock-out stage.

The other 16 teams will be decided by the WPA members by the following allocation;
APBU 6, EPBF 6, AAPA 1, CPB 1, OPBA 1 and the WPA will retain 1 spot and any member can request this extra spot. If there is more than one request for the WPA spot, the a decision will be made by the WPA Executive. No country, host excepted, can enter more than one team.

PLAYER SELECTION
Each nation must select men players that are in the top 32 of the current WPA men's rankings in forming their team. Where a nation has more than three players in the top 32, they may decide which three players. When a nation has only one or perhaps two players in the top 32, they may nominate any player(s) to make up the balance. The only exception to this when a nation has three or more players in the WPA 32, would be if that country has a current national champion (2011 or 2012) that isn't included in that 32. The national member would then have the option to nominate their national champion as one of the team. A similar criteria will apply to the selection of the female player by using the top 16 of the WPA rankings.


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Team Great Britain to be announced in due course

When is this announcement coming then? Everyone seems to be saying the team has now been chosen using the WPA Ranking List I believe, is that correct?

Chris Melling
Darren Appleton
Daryl Peach
Mark Gray
Kelly Fisher

Is Mark Gray a full team member or a reserve please?

Am I the only one excited about this?

Hi Big Dave.. yep team is what you have said and yes i am classed as the reserve i suppose cos order of world rankings... But last time i was reserve and played a major part.. so hopefully the same result again....