MIUS Cup
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MIUS Cup 2010 Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/11 - Event 4 
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| Tournament type: | Minor ranking tournament |
| Attendees: | 131 |
| Venue: | South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester , England |
| Opening: | October 29, 2010 |
| Endgame: | October 31, 2010
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| Winner: |
 Stephen Lee
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| Finalist: |
 Stephen Maguire
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| Highest Break: | 136 ( Stephen Maguire )
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The MIUS Cup 2010 was the fourth tournament of the European Players Tour Championship 2010/11 . It was held from October 29th to 31st, 2010 at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester .
Originally all six events of the European Tour were supposed to take place on the European continent and this tournament was planned as the Ortenau Cup in Offenburg . But then the Power Snooker Event 2010 was held as a special event on the same weekend and six of the top 10 players were invited. Because of its low attractiveness, ticket sales for the tournament in Germany were so low that it was decided to move. The South West Snooker Academy had just opened a few months earlier with the first Pink Ribbon tournament, a benefit event for snooker professionals and amateurs. Paul Mount, entrepreneur and head of Mount International United Services Ltd (MIUS), set up the Academy as snooker manager and promoter. He took over the organization and sponsorship of the EPTC tournament. PTC tournaments were also held in Gloucester for the next three years.
Because of the short-term relocation from the continent to the west of England, many amateurs withdrew their participation. Of the eight professionals who took part in the power snooker tournament in London, 150 km away, seven (apart from Ronnie O'Sullivan ) also competed in Gloucester.
The winner was Stephen Lee from England . It was his first PTC win and the eighth Main Tour title of his career. He won 4-2 against Stephen Maguire , who had already been in the final four months earlier in the very first PTC tournament and lost there.
Preliminary round
92 professional players and 39 amateurs had registered for the tournament, three more than there were starting places in the main tournament. Therefore, six amateur players were drawn to play a qualifying round before the tournament began.
