Mosconi Cup 2006

When Mosconi Cup 2006 is the thirteenth edition of a 1994-annual 9-Ball - snooker tournament in which a European team against a US team plays. In 2006 it took place in the Cruise Terminal from December 7th to 10th in Rotterdam in the Netherlands . Team USA won as defending champions despite a 12:12 tie, which was the Americans' eleventh victory.

Attendees

For team Europe played:

• Johan Ruijsink ( ) (non-playing team captain)
• David Alcaide ( )
• Nick van den Berg ( )
• Thomas Engert ( )
• Mika Immonen ( )
• Imran Majid ( )
• Ralf Souquet ( )

For the USA team:

• Johnny Archer (team captain)
• Mike Davis
• Corey Deuel (awarded as MVP .)
• Rodney Morris
• John Schmidt
• Earl Strickland

regulate

• Tournament length : A maximum of 24 games are played; the team that wins 13 games first wins the tournament. In the event of a 12:12, the cup remains with the defending champion.

• Match length: The game mode in the team competitions is Best of 11 , i. H. 6 games won are enough to win the set. The game mode in the individual competitions is Best of 13 , i. H. 7 games won are enough to win the set. In the last session of the individual competitions on Sunday evening, only best of 9 was played , 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. In team competitions, for example, this means that the player who picks up the ball does not return to the table until the sixth ball to be played.

• Time limit for the shot: Each player has 30 seconds to execute his shot. However, this rule does not apply to the first shot after kick-off, each player then has unlimited time to look at the situation on the table in peace. In every team competition players twice the opportunity to have a per game Extension to demand thus an extension of the time by 30 seconds per push. In the individual competitions, this extension is only allowed once per game. Requests to the referee to clean the match ball or to hand over an auxiliary device are time-consuming.

Results

The game plan looked like this:

game	date	Art	Player Europe	Result	Player USA	Total status
01	07/12/2006	team	Team Europe	5 - 6	Team USA	0 - 1
02	07/12/2006	three	Immonen - Alcaide - Souquet	6 - 3	Archer - Schmidt - Davis	1 - 1
03	07/12/2006	three	Majid - Engert - van den Berg	2 - 6	Deuel - - Strickland - Morris	1 - 2
04	December 8, 2006	Double	Immonen - Souquet	6 - 2	Schmidt - Davis	2 - 2
05	December 8, 2006	Double	Alcaide - Engert	1 - 6	Archer - Deuel	2 - 3
06	December 8, 2006	Double	van den Berg - Majid	6 - 5	Strickland - Morris	3 - 3
07	December 8, 2006	singles	Alcaide	7 - 5	Schmidt	4 - 3
08	December 8, 2006	singles	Majid	7-2	Archer	5 - 3
09	December 8, 2006	singles	Souquet	7-2	Deuel	6 - 3
10	12/09/2006	Double	van den Berg - Majid	3 - 6	Deuel - Davis	6 - 4
11	12/09/2006	Double	Immonen - Alcaide	6 - 4	Strickland - Morris	7 - 4
12	12/09/2006	Double	Souquet - Engert	6 - 1	Archer - Schmidt	8 - 4
13	12/09/2006	singles	Immonen	5 - 7	Morris	8 - 5
14th	12/09/2006	singles	Narrow	4 - 7	Strickland	8 - 6
15th	12/09/2006	singles	van den Berg	7 - 4	Davis	9 - 6
16	12/10/2006	team	Team Europe	3 - 6	Team USA	9 - 7
17th	12/10/2006	three	Majid - Engert - van den Berg	5 - 6	Deuel - Strickland - Schmidt	9 - 8
18th	12/10/2006	three	Souquet - Immonen - Alcaide	1 - 6	Archer - Morris - Davis	9 - 9
19th	12/10/2006	singles	Narrow	5 - 1	Schmidt	10 - 9
20th	12/10/2006	singles	Majid	2 - 5	Morris	10-10
21st	12/10/2006	singles	Souquet	5 - 4	Archer	11-10
22nd	12/10/2006	singles	van den Berg	5 - 4	Strickland	12-10
23	12/10/2006	singles	Immonen	4 - 5	Davis	12-11
24	12/10/2006	singles	Alcaide	2 - 5	Deuel	12-12

The Mosconi Cup remained in the possession of the USA team until the next tournament in December 2007. The 2007 Mosconi Cup was held in Las Vegas (USA).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Europe 12-12 USA . Matchroom pool. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved on December 21, 2010.

Web links

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