World Cup of Pool 2008

The World Cup of Pool 2008 was the third edition of a pool tournament in the 9-ball discipline that has been held annually since 2006 , in which each participating country is represented by a team of two players. In 2008 it took place at the Outland in Rotterdam , Netherlands from October 7th to 12th. The team from the USA won the final 11: 7 against the English team.

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The game was played with a winner's break. This means that the team has the right to kick-off that the previous game has also won.

In 2008, the game was played up to the round of 16 until a team had won eight games ( racks ), in the quarter-finals the number of racks needed to win was increased to nine and in the final to eleven.

Furthermore, a so-called shot clock was used, which does not allow the players to wait longer than 40 seconds with their shot. However, you have the option to announce an extension once per rack, which gives you another 40 seconds more time for the push.

Teams

Setting range	team	Player 1	Player 2
1	China	Li Hewen	Fu Jianbo
2	Philippines	Francisco Bustamante	Dennis Orcollo
3	Netherlands 1	Niels Feijen	Nick van den Berg
4th	Germany	Ralf Souquet	Thomas Engert
5	England	Daryl Peach	Mark Gray
6th	United States	Shane van Boening	Rodney Morris
7th	Taiwan	Wu Chia-Ching	Wang Hung-Hsiang
8th	Finland	Markus Juva	Mika Immonen
9	Italy	Bruno Muratore	Fabio Petroni
10	Japan	Naoyuki Ōi	Satoshi Kawabata
11	Spain	David Alcaide	Carlos Cabello
12	Canada	Tyler Edey	Edwin Montal
13	Poland	Radoslaw Babica	Mateusz Śniegocki
14th	Vietnam	Lương Chí Dũng	Nguyon Thành Nam
15th	Russia	Ruslan Chinakhov	Konstantin Stepanov
16	Switzerland	Marco Tschudi	Dimitri Jungo
	Australia	Stuart Lawler	John Wims
	Belgium	Serge That	Noel Bruynooghe
	Denmark	Martin Larsen	Kasper Kristoffersen
	France	Vincent Facquet	Stephan Cohen
	Hong Kong	Lee Chenman	Kenny Kwok
	India	Sumit Talwar	Alok Kumar
	Iceland	Bjorgvin Hallgrimsson	Kristjan Helgason
	Qatar	Fahad Mohammadi	Bashar Hussain
	Croatia	Ivica Putnik	Philipp Stojanovic
	Malaysia	Ibrahim bin Amir	Lee Poh Soon
	Malta	Tony Drago	Alex Borg
	Netherlands 1	Roy Gerards	Gijs van Helmond
	Austria	Martin Kempter	Jasmin Ouschan
	Peru	Jhon Lopez	Juan Francisco Vega
	South Korea	Ga Young Kim	Yun Mi Lim
	Thailand	Nitiwat Kanjanasri	Dechawat Poomjaeng

Tournament statistics

First round 7th-9th October

Round of 16 9/10 October

Quarter finals October 11th

Semifinals October 12th

final October 12th

India

6th

1

China

8th

1

China

8th

Hong Kong

5

16

Switzerland

7th

16

Switzerland

8th

1

China

9

Peru

4th

9

Italy

2

9

Italy

8th

9

Italy

8th

South Korea

8th

South Korea

0

8th

Finland

4th

1

China

5

Malta

4th

5

England

9

5

England

8th

5

England

8th

France

5

12

Canada

4th

12

Canada

8th

5

England

9

Thailand

3

4th

Germany

7th

13

Poland

8th

13

Poland

6th

Qatar

3

4th

Germany

8th

4th

Germany

8th

5

England

7th

Belgium

8th

6th

United States

11

3

Netherlands 1

3

Belgium

6th

Austria

8th

Austria

8th

14th

Vietnam

1

Austria

7th

Croatia

8th

6th

United States

9

11

Spain

7th

Croatia

5

Iceland

4th

6th

United States

8th

6th

United States

8th

6th

United States

9

Netherlands 2

8th

2

Philippines

6th

7th

Taiwan

5

Netherlands 2

5

Australia

5

10

Japan

8th

10

Japan

8th

10

Japan

2

Malaysia

4th

2

Philippines

9

15th

Russia

8th

15th

Russia

3

Denmark

2

2

Philippines

8th

2

Philippines

8th

Prize money

A total of US $ 250,000 was distributed . The following is for a pair, not a player.

Tournament placement	Prize money
1st place (tournament victory)	$ 60,000
2nd place (defeat in the final)	$ 30,000
3rd place (semi-finals)	$ 16,000
5th place (quarter-finals)	$ 10,000
9th place (round of 16)	$ 5,000
17th place (preliminary round)	$ 3,000

Web links

• official tournament site