World Cup of Pool

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The World Cup of Pool is the annual single-elimination tournament for international pool teams. It is held annually at a different country each year. The games, which were first held in 2006, uses the 9-ball method to determine the winner.

1 Format
2 Results
3 2006
4 2007
5 External links

[edit] Format

Performances of the nations.

There are usually 32 participating teams, representing 31 nations (England had 2 teams in 2006, while Holland had 2 in 2007) composed of two players each.

The participating nations do not have to go through a qualifying tournament in order to join, for they were selected by the organizers. Sixteen teams are seeded.

The individual matches are scotch doubles with alternate breaks on a nine-ball format.

Matchroom Sport broadcasted all of the games. PartyPoker.com sponsored the event.

[edit] Results

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Semifinalists
Year	Host	Final			Semifinalists
2006	Wales (Newport)	Reyes/Bustamante	13—5	Strickland/Morris	Nguyen/Luong	Engert/Ortmann
2007	Netherlands (Rotterdam)	Li/Fu	11—10	Immonen/Juva	Kawabata/Oi	Martel/Montal

[edit] 2006

The inaugural tournament was held from August 22 to August 27, 2006.

[edit] Participating nations

Canada (Luc Salvas and Tyler Edey)
Croatia (Philipp Stovanovic and Ivan Kralj)
Czech Republic (Roman Hybler and Michal Gavenciak)
England A (Raj Hundal and Ronnie O’Sullivan)
England B (Steve Davis and Daryl Peach)
Finland (Mika Immonen and Markus Juva)
Germany (Thomas Engert and Oliver Ortmann)
Hong Kong (Lee Chenman and Kong Man-ho)
Hungary (Vilmos Foldes and Gabor Solymosi)
India (Dharminder Lilly and Alok Kumar)
Indonesia (Imran Ibrahim and Ricky Yang)
Ireland (Tommy Donlon and Paddy McLaughlin)
Italy (Fabio Petroni and Angelo Millauro)
Japan (Maasaki Tanaka and Satoshi Kawabata)
Korea (Jeong Young-hwa and Lee Gun-jae)
Malaysia (Patrick Ooi Fook Yuen and Ibrahim Bin Amir)

Malta (Tony Drago and Alex Borg)
Netherlands (Nick van den Berg and Niels Feijen)
Philippines (Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante)
Poland (Radoslaw Babica and Mariusz Rote)
Qatar (Fahad Mohammadi and Bashar Hussain)
Russia (Konstantin Stepanov and Konstantin Zolotilov)
Scotland (Michael Valentine and Pat Holtz)
Singapore (Chan Keng Kwang and Toh Lian Han)
South Africa (David Anderson and Yulan Govender)
Spain (David Alcaide and Rafael Guzman)
Sweden (Marcus Chamat and Tom Storm)
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan; Wang Hung-hsiang and Yang Ching-shun)
Thailand (Tepwin Arunnath and Amnuayporn Chotipong)
United States (Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris)
Vietnam (Nam Nguyen Thanh and Luong Chi Dung)
Wales (Rob McKenna and Ben Davies)

[edit] Tournament bracket

Round of 16			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Final

1	Reyes/ Bustamante	9
	Yuen/Amir	5
			1	Reyes/ Bustamante	9

				Hybler/Gavenciak	6
	Hybler/Gavenciak	9

8	Salvas/Edey	8
						1	Reyes/ Bustamante	9

						4	Engert/Ortmann	7
5	Wang/Yang	9

12	Tanaka/Kawabata	4
			5	Wang/Yang	4

			4	Engert/Ortmann	9
	Alcaide/Guzman	5

4	Engert/Ortmann	9
									1	Reyes/ Bustamante	13

									3	Strickland/Morris	5
3	Strickland/Morris	9

	Davis/Peach	3
			3	Strickland/Morris	9

				Lee/Kong	3
11	Stepanov/Zolorilov	8

	Lee/Kong	9
						3	Strickland/Morris	9

							Tranh/Dung	7
7	Immonen/Juva	2

10	Petroni/Millauro	9
			10	Petroni/Millauro	8

				Thanh/Dung	9
	Tranh/Dung	9

2	van den Berg/Feijen	8

[edit] Final

The Philippine team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante defeated the American tandem of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris 13—5 to lift the inuagural trophy.