World Billiards Championship 2008

[JP1]

Day 1 Results:

Mike Russell [76, 89, 588] 1068-177 Michael Kreuziger
Devendra Joshi [115, 57, 86, 55, 108, 65uf] 720-253 Gary Rogers
Mike Russell [101, 203, 62, 87, 272, 99] 980-207 Gary Rogers
David Causier [137, 87, 138, 150, 74] 918-302 [84] Sourav Kothari
Sourav Kothari [76, 66, 159] 561-378 [68, 112, 71] Dhruv Sitwala
David Causier [150, 214, 121, 77, 87] 858-533 [63, 66, 80, 141] Dhruv Sitwala
Geet Sethi [118, 94, 53, 79, 92, 70uf] 671-459 [83, 71, 113] Rupesh Shah
Peter Gilchrist [54, 108, 118, 103, 189, 187] 945-447 [61, 97, 54, 84uf] Alok Kumar
Geet Sethi [97, 52, 90, 119, 73, 85, 139] 887-506 [89, 79, 68, 74] Alok Kumar
Pankaj Advani [62, 130, 87, 106, 56, 176uf] 742-308 [81] Ian Williamson
Ian Williamson [54, 62, 69, 129, 85, 86, 40uf] 607-154 Mark Hirst
Pankaj Advani [256, 95, 149, 97] 806-472 [59, 128uf] Mark Hirst

Michael Kreuziger deserves a medal for his courage to front up at International Billiards events struggling to make a 30 break, I believe he is the best Billiards player in Austria??

He must have learned a lot from the trashings he has received at every event he entered into, I hope to see him in Bangalore in September getting another walloping.

[Redphex]

Michael Kreuziger deserves a medal for his courage to front up at International Billiards events struggling to make a 30 break, I believe he is the best Billiards player in Austria??

Well, at least he beat Gary Rogers and was 3rd in the group

Learning to play Billiards isn't easy in Austria. Besides reading books, following tips and training instructions, you can only try to shape your technique and try to figure out the rest for yourself.
When you don't have an experienced player nearby who you can directly ask in specific situations, its like reinventing the game all over.

From an Austrian point of view, you have to go to big events to see how it's done. Even if you receive one walloping after the other.

[JP1]

I fully appreciate his efforts, I was not critical or condescending of his play, merely stating the obvious, besides he is a fully qualified coach.

[nightman26]

I dont think the dvd's have been released yet, i was talking to the guy filming the final and he said it would be 3 or 4 weeks after the final before the dvd's would be ready.
What i can say is, it should be good quality, it looked a very professional setup and he had a good vantage point, for the final anyway

[bongo]

Hopefully they will be ready soon as I am waiting to buy them!

nightman26, could you just post in this thread when they are ready if you know when they are?

[nightman26]

Hopefully they will be ready soon as I am waiting to buy them!

nightman26, could you just post in this thread when they are ready if you know when they are?

Bongo i have emailed Brian Watson from yorkshirebilliards asking when they will be ready, when he replys i will post.
I am going for the

Finals Package

Quarters, semi and final, 6 disc 14 hours of play DVD package.

Usual price £42, offered for just £30


Seems a good deal to me!

[jasond28]

Nightman

Only the final was recorded.

[bongo]

Nightman

Only the final was recorded.

Have a look at this page, I think they filmed other matches too.

[nightman26]

Thats what i am going off as well bongo, but while i was there i did here someone mention that they had some problems early on, but i just thought that was the round robin stages

[jasond28]

Nightman and Bongo

I was there for the whole week and only the final was recorded.

WPBSA wouldn't allow any filming of any other matches for whatever reason.

Its pointless going by what it says on yorkshirebilliards.co.uk as Brian Watson who arranged for these matches to be filmed was on holiday in London at the time.

If you still don't believe me then there's quite enough people on Billiard-Junkies forum who will agree with this post.

[nightman26]

jasond28

I never said i didn't believe you! if you read my post again after you stated that "only the final was recorded", i said i was going off the yorkshirebilliards site and i had heard that they had problems early on.
But i am happy to accept your word for it, i never doubted it!