Mosconi Cup 2003

When Mosconi Cup 2003 is the tenth edition of a 1994-annual 9-Ball - snooker tournament in which a European team against a US team plays. In 2003 it took place in the Studio Ballroom of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas , Nevada (USA) from December 18 to 21. Team USA won 11: 9, which was the eighth victory for the Americans.

Attendees

For team Europe played:

• Oliver Ortmann ( ) (non-playing team captain)
• Nick van den Berg ( )
• Marcus Chamat ( )
• Steve Davis ( )
• Mika Immonen ( ) (awarded as MVP .)
• Thorsten Hohmann ( )
• Ralf Souquet ( )

For the USA team:

• Nick Varner (non-playing team captain)
• Johnny Archer
• Jeremy Jones
• Rodney Morris
• Tony Robles
• Earl Strickland
• Charlie Williams

regulate

• Tournament length : A maximum of 23 games are played; the team that wins 12 games first wins the tournament.

• Match length: The game mode in the individual matches is best of 9 , i.e. H. 5 games won are enough to win a set.

• Alternating break: The first kick is played, then the players or teams take turns, regardless of who wins.

• Alternating shot: in team competitions, the players rotate after each shot to the next player on their own team.

• Time limit of the shock: In 2003 there was no shot clock . This was introduced in 2005 and set at 30 seconds.

Results

The game plan looked like this:

game	date	Art	Player Europe	Result	Player USA	Total status
01	12/18/2003	singles	Hohmann	4 - 5	Archer	0 - 1
02	12/18/2003	Double	Immonen - Chamat	5 - 1	Williams - Robles	1 - 1
03	12/18/2003	singles	Souquet	3 - 5	Morris	1 - 2
04	12/18/2003	Double	Davis - van den Berg	4 - 5	Strickland - Jones	1 - 3
05	12/18/2003	singles	Immonen	5 - 3	Archer	2 - 3
06	12/19/2003	singles	Chamat	3 - 5	Jones	2 - 4
07	12/19/2003	Double	Davis - van den Berg	3 - 5	Robles - Strickland	2 - 5
08	12/19/2003	singles	Immonen	5 - 4	Williams	3 - 5
09	12/19/2003	Double	Souquet - Hohmann	1 - 5	Archer - Morris	3 - 6
10	12/20/2003	singles	van den Berg	5 - 3	Robles	4 - 6
11	12/20/2003	Double	Souquet - Hohmann	5 - 4	Archer - Morris	5 - 6
12	12/20/2003	singles	Davis	5 - 0	Strickland	6 - 6
13	12/20/2003	Double	Immonen - Chamat	5 - 2	Williams - Jones	7 - 6
14th	12/20/2003	singles	Souquet	5 - 3	Jones	8 - 6
15th	12/21/2003	singles	Hohmann	3 - 5	Morris	8 - 7
16	12/21/2003	singles	Davis	2 - 5	Archer	8 - 8
17th	12/21/2003	singles	van den Berg	4 - 5	Strickland	8 - 9
18th	12/21/2003	singles	Immonen	2 - 5	Robles	8-10
19th	12/21/2003	singles	Souquet	5 - 3	Williams	9-10
20th	12/21/2003	singles	Chamat	3 - 5	Jones	9-11

Thus the Mosconi Cup remained in the possession of the USA team until the next tournament in December 2004. The 2004 Mosconi Cup was held in Egmond aan Zee (Netherlands).

See also

• Old official website for the Mosconi Cup
• New official website for the Mosconi Cup (still under construction)