EPTC1 (Paul Hunter Classic) Furth

[missneworleans]

wow best of 7 format many stuns!
not much top32 survived

[João]

wow best of 7 format many stuns!
not much top32 survived

Yeah, I'm not sure I like this.

[wildJONESEYE]

Yeah, I'm not sure I like this.

its called get your fat ass in gear before the sport passes you by.

same rules for all.

[JanieWatkins]

Tonight was PARTY TIME!
The World Team Speed Cup and the famed players party - you can tell I've sloped off early as I can still just about type!

I am gutted to say that defending champions Wales bowed out in the first round this year at the hands of the Belgians - the BELGIANS!!! so a very grudging!! well done to Chris "I can pot them off the lampshades" Henry, Hans Blanckaert and Bjorn Haneveer. And Huge commiserations to the gallant Welsh team of Mark Williams, Ryan Day and Andrew Pagett. (We will be back!)

Congratulations to the Scots who beat the Irish in the final.

Scottish winners were Marcus Campbell, Alan McManus and Graeme Dott who shared 900 Euros for their efforts.

The Irish team was Mick Judge, Paddy Wallace and Gerard Greene.

There were also teams from Holland, England, "The World", and Germany - who lost to England resoundingly so much cheering from the English!!
The English team was Shaun "the cardigan" Murphy, Ali "fly boy" Carter, and Mark "finger gestures" King!

The World team was weakened by the mysterious disappearance of Neil Robertson, who I think must have caught an early flight after losing earlier.

An hilariously funny and entertaining evening as always with Rolf Kalb a star on one microphone and Bernie Mikelit on the other.

Play starts at 11am Sunday morning so at least a bit of sleep for some us!

[Monique]

Tonight was PARTY TIME!
The World Team Speed Cup and the famed players party - you can tell I've sloped off early as I can still just about type!

I am gutted to say that defending champions Wales bowed out in the first round this year at the hands of the Belgians - the BELGIANS!!! so a very grudging!! well done to Chris "I can pot them off the lampshades" Henry, Hans Blanckaert and Bjorn Haneveer. And Huge commiserations to the gallant Welsh team of Mark Williams, Ryan Day and Andrew Pagett. (We will be back!)

Congratulations to the Scots who beat the Irish in the final.

Scottish winners were Marcus Campbell, Alan McManus and Graeme Dott who shared 900 Euros for their efforts.

The Irish team was Mick Judge, Paddy Wallace and Gerard Greene.

There were also teams from Holland, England, "The World", and Germany - who lost to England resoundingly so much cheering from the English!!
The English team was Shaun "the cardigan" Murphy, Ali "fly boy" Carter, and Mark "finger gestures" King!

The World team was weakened by the mysterious disappearance of Neil Robertson, who I think must have caught an early flight after losing earlier.

An hilariously funny and entertaining evening as always with Rolf Kalb a star on one microphone and Bernie Mikelit on the other.

Play starts at 11am Sunday morning so at least a bit of sleep for some us!

So what about the Belgians Janie?

[Mr P]

Gutted to see Mark go out to Ali Carter.

Nevermind, he has 2 big tournaments coming up now, that his focus will probably have been on.

[Mignon]

Quarter final - age

Steve Davis v Shaun Murphy = 53 v 28
Jack Lisowski vJudd Trump = 19 v 21
Jimmy White v Daniel Wells = 48 v 22
Stuart Bingham v Anthony Hamilton = 34 v 39

Quarter finalists' average age = 33

[Mignon]

Poor live scoring for the quarter finals!! There are four matches. FOUR plus probably the other four of the Plate quarter finals (we know nothing of the results of that competition BTW). OK, eight matches and we can't have live scoring???.... On G-S nothing's changed score-wise for at least 45 minutes....

.... until a minute ago> so we know the first semi final line-up: Shaun Murphy v Judd Trump

Frame scores on worldsnooker.com probably tomorrow....

[beechy1212]

Jimmy White got beat 4-2 but a decent run for the whirlwind. He's winning a few matches at last.

[spike]

Jimmy White got beat 4-2 but a decent run for the whirlwind.

Disappointing considering he was 2-0 in front at one point..

[missneworleans]

Wells Hamilton lol thats a funny match!

[beechy1212]

Disappointing considering he was 2-0 in front at one point..

Not sure about that. Global had the score 1-1, 1-2, 1-3.

[HunRon]

EPTC1/Paul Hunter Classic, pics:
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554585.jpg OR http://i33.tinypic.com/2dikopy.jpg
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554583.jpg OR http://i33.tinypic.com/2exsi78.jpg
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554581.jpg OR http://i37.tinypic.com/2hgvjah.jpg
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554579.jpg OR http://i34.tinypic.com/2lw62w7.jpg
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554577.jpg OR http://i38.tinypic.com/2nt8c8w.jpg
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100829/Img274554575.jpg OR http://i36.tinypic.com/rtn4tv.jpg

Source: http://sports.sohu.com/s2010/110sport/

[ltfc39]

Top work HunRon. Who's the woman with the pink hair?!

Looks a fantastic venue. I reckon there may well be TV coverage for this event next year.

[darrus]

The final is Trump vs. Hamilton