Tournament Information

National Qualifier

January 19-22, 2012

Pendennis Club, Louisville, KY

This tournament was live-streamed by Andrew Dangelmayer.
To watch some of the matches, go here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/caromcorner

Kentucky Landmark Presents 3-Cushion At Its Finest!!

On January 18, 2012 a talented field of thirty 3-Cushion Billiard players from across the United States converged on the beautiful and historic Pendennis Club in downtown Louisville. For 4 years now Professor-Q-Ball Promotions / Paul Frankel has promoted / directed a USBA Qualifier to determine a select group of players that will earn free entry into the USBA National 3 Cushion Championship. For 2012 these Nationals will take place from May 6 – 10 in Las Vegas, NV at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino.

Kicking off the festive Pendennis Club presentation of event activities was a special Artistic Pool performance by ESPN and World Masters Trick Shot Champion Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman Players, fans, and a host of valued Pendennis Club members / special guests enjoyed the entertaining and enlightening moments demonstrated on the pool table on Wednesday evening.

After the player’s meeting and draw on Thursday 5 flights of 6 players each approached the newly recovered tables with resolve and determination. The 2 top players from each group would move on to the final rounds with 5 players in 2 separate flights.

After some amazing shot making performances in the prelims with several players scoring a high run of 7 (Mazin Shooni, Brian Haff, and Gilbert Najm) an elite group of 10 players emerged to start the final rounds on Saturday evening (See complete flight charts for all the players, including the 1st and 2nd place finisher in each bracket that made the final shootout).

The finalists were grouped into 2 brackets of 5 players each. The brackets were determined by each player's performance in the preliminaries based on order of finish, win/losses, total points and points-against.

Final Round F started off with a nail-biter match between Dan Kolacz and Mazin Shooni. Dan took an early lead, looking like he was on his way to victory when Mazin called upon his champion spirit to net the score at 24-24. Dan looked like he was going to pull off an upset, but missed by less than a whisker on his next shot. Mazin sealed the win on his next turn at the table while the audience applauded both players for a super match. When the smoke had cleared bracket results for Round F revealed Shooni in 1st with a perfect 4-0 record, Kolacz in 2nd with 2 wins and 2 losses, and tuned competitor Jim Stoner in 3rd place, winning 2 out of the 4 matches also, but with less points overall.

Final Round G revealed more superb play as Gibert Najm dominated his bracket with 4 wins and 0 losses. Jim Shovak, Jim Bishop, and Brian Haff each won 2 matches and lost 2 with Shovak taking 2nd place scoring 91 points out of 100 possible. Hi-run went to Shovak and Shooni for running an 8 among all finalists. Bishop finished in 3rd with 88 points, and Haff settled for 4th with 85 points.

To determine the overall champion for the qualifier, Shooni played Najm with Shooni taking the championship honors. Dan Kolacz left early, so he and Shovak did not play. A special match took place with Jim Stoner playing Jim Bishop to see which 3rd place finisher from each final bracket would receive free entry and expense allowance to the Nationals in May. Bishop remained cool, calm, and collected as he enjoyed a well-earned victory in a hard fought match.

This magnetic carom event proved once again to be a great success for the players, the fans, the host Pendennis Club location, and the much appreciated promoter efforts of Professor-Q-Ball.

Special thanks to our sponsorship donations, Bob Watson, Rick Kirk, Gary Eake, Tom Rossman, Bill Smith and to the Barnett Family of Texas. Also special thanks to our Live-Streamer Andrew Dangelmayer. 

3-Cushion USBA Regional Qualifier 2012

Pendennis Club

502.584.4311

218 West Muhammad Ali Blvd.

Louisville, Kentucky 40202

NEW TIMES:
JANUARY 19-22th, 2012  30 Player Field

The USBA Regional Qualifier will be a 4-day event starting with the player's meeting on January 19th Thursday at 1:00 pm. First rounds will start after players meeting.

Format: Entry fee is $165, Dress code, Slacks, collar shirt and no jeans or sneakers, round robin format, race to 20 points in the prelims and 25 points in the finals.

There will be 5 flights of 6. Top Two from each flight advances to the finals.

There will be 2 flights of 5 players, round robin in the finals. Top 2 finishers of each Finals flight will win free entry into the USBA Nationals and will receive $200 expense money at the Nationals.

All ten finalists receive prize money.

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