Mosconi Cup 2009

When Mosconi Cup in 2009 it was the sixteenth edition of a 1994-annual 9-Ball - snooker tournament in which a European team against a US team plays. In 2009 it took place in the Studio Ballroom of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas , Nevada (USA) from December 10th to 13th. The defending champion was the European team, but Team USA won the cup back with an 11: 7 win.

Attendees

For team Europe played:

• Alex Lely ( ) (non-playing team captain)
• Darren Appleton ( )
• Niels Feijen ( )
• Thorsten Hohmann ( )
• Mika Immonen ( )
• Ralf Souquet ( )

For the USA team:

• Nick Varner (non-playing team captain)
• Johnny Archer
• Corey Deuel
• Óscar Domínguez
• Shane van Boening
• Dennis Hatch

regulate

• Tournament length : A maximum of 21 games are played. The team that wins 11 games first wins the tournament.

• Match length: The game mode in the team competitions is Best of 11 , ie 6 games won are enough to win the 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, the players have two options per game to request an extension , i.e. an extension of the time by a further 30 seconds per shot. 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.

• Break conditions:

The corner is built closer to the center of the table so that the 9 lies on the foot point.

A break is only correct if at least three colored balls run once over the head line. Sunk balls are withdrawn from these three balls so that, for example, only two balls have to cross the head line if another has fallen. This rule is intended to prevent the players from holding the balls together in the smallest possible space by means of a controlled soft break .

• Prize Money: The players on the winning team each received prize money of US $ 15,000; those of the losing team each $ 7,500.

Results

The game plan looked like this:

game	date	Art	Player Europe	Result	Player USA	Total status
01	December 10, 2009	team	Team Europe	4 - 6	Team USA	0 - 1
02	December 10, 2009	Double	Feijen - Appleton	5 - 6	Archer - Hatch	0 - 2
03	December 10, 2009	singles	Immonen	3 - 6	van Boening	0 - 3
04	December 10, 2009	Double	Souquet - Hohmann	2 - 6	Deuel - Domínguez	0-4
05	December 10, 2009	singles	Souquet	6 - 5	Domínguez	1 - 4
06	12/11/2009	Double	Souquet - Feijen	2 - 6	van Boening - Archer	1 - 5
07	12/11/2009	singles	Hohmann	6 - 4	Deuel	2 - 5
08	12/11/2009	Double	Immonen - Appleton	4 - 6	Hatch - Domínguez	2 - 6
09	12/11/2009	singles	Appleton	5 - 6	Archer	2 - 7
10	12/12/2009	Double	Feijen - Hohmann	6 - 1	Hatch - deuel	3 - 7
11	12/12/2009	Double	Souquet - Immonen	6 - 4	Domínguez - van Boening	4 - 7
12	12/12/2009	singles	Feijen	4 - 6	Hatch	4 - 8
13	12/12/2009	Double	Appleton - Hohmann	5 - 6	Deuel - Archer	4 - 9
14th	12/12/2009	singles	Immonen	6 - 4	Domínguez	5 - 9
15th	12/13/2009	singles	Souquet	6 - 3	van Boening	6 - 9
16	12/13/2009	singles	Feijen	0 - 6	Hatch	6-10
17th	12/13/2009	singles	Hohmann	6 - 1	Archer	7-10
18th	12/13/2009	singles	Souquet	2 - 6	van Boening	7-11

Web links

• Official website for the Mosconi Cup