The 2010 World Team Championship (short WTC 2010) was the first edition of the World Team Championship which was sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, which ran from January 30, 2010, to February 6, 2010, in Hanover, Germany. A total prize fund of $398,000 was distributed, with the winning team receiving $100,000. The Great Britain 1 team of Darren Appleton, Daryl Peach, Imran Majid, Karl Boyes and Mark Gray won the event with a 4–1 victory over the Philippines.[1] [2] It was the first iteration of the World Team Championship.
In the quarter-finals, the match between Britain 1 and China reached a playoff. After a "titanic struggle", the match reached a score of 27–25 in a race to 6 racks with the winning rack from Peach.[3] [4]
The World Team Championship consisteted of teams of 4-6 players for national teams. The event was organised and run by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Only one national team is allowed to compete per nation, with the exception of hosts Germany, Great Britain and Israel. The latter two were re-nominated after the teams from Nigeria and Brunei cancelled.[5] [6]
The event featured three pool disciplines for each match: Eight-ball, Nine-ball and 10-Ball. Each match consists of six matches; two each in the respective disciplines. The 8-ball sets are played in doubles to 6 racks. The 9-ball and 10-ball sets are played in singles on a playout of 8 or 7 racks. If a match is tied 3-3, the winner is determined by a playoff.[7]
The tournament was contested as a Double-elimination tournament until 16 teams remained. In the final round of the last 16 will be in the Single-elimination tournament played, so every defeat leads to the immediate withdrawal from the tournament.[6]
The event featured a prize fund totalling $398,000, with $100,000 for the winners of the event split between the participants.[8] A breakdown of the prize money is shown below:[8]
| Placing | Prize money | |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | $100,000 | |
| Runner-up | $50,000 | |
| Semi-finalists | $30,000 | |
| Quarter-finalists | $15,000 | |
| Last 16 | $10,000 | |
| 17-24 Place | $6,000 |
Source:[9]
| Nation | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | (Player 5) | (Player 6) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Wolff | Aaron Franken | Ryan Rampersaud | Ditto Acosta | × | × | |
| Serge Das | Noel Bruynooghe | Pascal Budo | Jan Dulst | × | × | |
| Li Hewen | Fu Jianbo | Liu Haitao | Dang Jinhu | × | × | |
| Kasper Thygesen | Kasper Kristoffersen | Bahram Lotfy | Martin Larsen | × | × | |
| I | Ralf Souquet | Andreas Roschkowsky | Thorsten Hohmann | Christian Reimering | Manuel Ederer | Nicolas Ottermann |
| II | Oliver Ortmann | Dominic Jentsch | Thomas Lüttich | John Blacklaw | Christian Musmann | × |
| Jüri Talu | Rainer Laar | Erki Erm | Denis Grabe | Reimo Simsalu | × | |
| Mika Immonen | Markus Juva | Aki Heiskanen | Petri Makkonen | × | × | |
| Stephan Cohen | Vincent Facquet | Lionel Vernedal | Laurant Bourdelles | × | × | |
| Nikos Ekonomopoulos | John Vassalos | Alexander Kazakis | Evangelos Vettas | Aristeidis Damoylakis | Christos Kokotis | |
| Takhti Zarakani | Farhad Shaverdi | Hadi Keyvan Ekbatani | Ali Khojasteh Anbaran | × | × | |
| I | Noam Cohen | Dror Dobronski | Ben Gmach | Zion Zvi | × | × |
| II | Shai Eisenberg | Sagi Kortler | Valery Kostovesky | Dobronsky Osnat | × | × |
| Bruno Muratore | Pietro Caperna | Gabriele Cimmino | Vittorio De Falco | Michele Monaco | Mauro Castriota | |
| Satoshi Kawabata | Yukio Akakariyama | Masaaki Tanaka | Naoyuki Ōi | × | × | |
| Alain Martel | Tyler Edey | Jason Klatt | Ron Wiseman | Erik Hjorleifson | × | |
| Ivica Putnik | Robert Sudić | Božo Primić | Karlo Dalmatin | Tomislav Šušić | × | |
| Khaled al-Mutairi | Abdullah al-Yasef | Majed al-Azemi | Bader al-Awadhi | Tareq al-Mulla | Omar al-Shaheen | |
| Alessandro Banzer | Branko Kosic | Hans Jörg Dutler | Mario Wille | × | × | |
| Amine Ouahbi | Samuel Saïd Arji | Yousri Kabbaj | Ameur Abdel Ati Riad | Mounir Al Honsali | × | |
| Niels Feijen | Nick van den Berg | Huidji See | Alex Lely | × | × | |
| Samuel Bamgbose | Shehu Bamidele | Adegbite Aderibigbe | Ayodele Ajibodu | Marins Abada | × | |
| Ali Karanfiloglu | Huseyin Borankan | Onuc Altur | Berk Mehmetcik | × | × | |
| Vegar Kristiansen | Ronny Oldervik | Mats Schjetne | Malvin Boelland | × | × | |
| Christopher Tevez Ocampo | Juan Vega Enriquez | Jorge Llanos Bustillos | Jhon Lopez Roman | Luis Arias Chosek | Edson Damian Velasquez | |
| Ronato Alcano | Lee Vann Corteza | Warren Kiamco | Antonio Lining | Marlon Manalo | Dennis Orcollo | |
| Radosław Babica | Tomasz Kapłan | Mateusz Śniegocki | Karol Skowerski | Adam Skoneczny | Mariusz Skoneczny | |
| Jasmin Ouschan | Albin Ouschan | Maximilian Lechner | Jürgen Jenisy | Martin Kempter | Mario He | |
| Konstantin Stepanov | Ruslan Chinakhov | Jegor Plischkin | Roman Pruchay | × | × | |
| Marcus Chamat | Tomas Larsson | Jim Chawki | Andreas Gerwen | Jan Lundell | × | |
| Dimitri Jungo | Sascha Specchia | Ronny Regli | Marco Tschudi | × | × | |
| Šandor Tot | Zoran Svilar | Andreja Klasović | Goran Mladenović | Miloš Verkić | × | |
| Jaroslav Polach | Milan Klobucnik | Zoltan Petrovic | Peter Leitman | Jakub Koniar | Rene Daubner | |
| Jožko Marinko | Matjaž Demšar | Rado Doroslovac | Mates Cretnik | × | × | |
| David Alcaide | Francisco Sánchez Ruíz | Jose L. Gonzales | Rafael Guzman | × | × | |
| Jeong Young-hwa | Park K. Chan | Lee Gun Jea | Han Won Sik | × | × | |
| Vilmos Földes | Mate Hazay | Attila Bezdan | Csaba Nagy | Bence Varga | Gabor Antal | |
| Roman Hybler | Michal Gavenčiak | Lukas Krenek | Adam Houdek | Oto Zeman | × | |
| Johnny Archer | Shane Van Boening | Óscar Domínguez | Corey Deuel | × | × | |
| Muhammed Al Hosani | Hanni Al Howri | Mohammed Obaid | Khalid Sibaitah | × | × | |
| I | Darren Appleton | Imran Majid | Karl Boyes | Daryl Peach | Mark Gray | × |
| II | Chris Melling | Craig Osborne | Adam Smith | Mick Hill | Michael Valentine | × |
| Costas Konnaris | Prodromos Demosthenous | Yiannos Kitromilidies | Panicos Petrou | George Louka | × | |
After the double elimination round, a single elimination tournament featuring the last 16 teams was held. Below are the results from this stage:[10] [11]
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| Team | 8-Ball | 9-Ball | 10-Ball | |||||
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| 7 February 2010 | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | Score | |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | × | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | × | 4 | |