The 2018 European Pool Championships was a professional

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championship that took place at the NH Hotel Koningshof, in

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, Netherlands. The event played between 19 and 31 July 2018 was a part of the

European Pool Championships European Pool Championship (also called Dynamic European Championships) is a Pool (cue sports), pool competition organized by the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF). The tournament is held annually since 1980. It should not be confused with ...

; and saw events for men, women, wheelchair competitors, youth and seniors across four pool disciplines:

Straight Pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a Cue sports, cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many s as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of Pool (cue sports), pool play ...

8-Ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, bigs and smalls, big ones and little ones, or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pocket ...

9-Ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...

, and

10-Ball Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "". Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a ...

. The event was the largest pool event ever held in Europe, with sixty tables built exclusively for the event.

Tournament overview

The European Championship 2018 was held at the NH Hotel Koningshof in

, Netherlands. In a hall of the hotel 60 pool tables were built. Veldhoven held the event for the second time, having hosted it in 2005. The event hosted over 550 players from 37 countries, the most of any European championships. All competitions were played in the

double elimination A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost ''two'' games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimin ...

knockout system until only a certain number of participants remained and then continued in the knockout system. The individual competitions of the men were played in the round of the last 64 in knockout mode (straight pool: round of the last 32), in the women from the round of 16, and the wheelchair users from the quarter-finals. The team competitions were held from the round of 16 (men) or semi-final (ladies) in the knockout system. The online news channel Kozoom streamed all matches of the European Championship live in up to 60 channels.

Results

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was the most successful player at the championships, becoming the first wheelchair player to win all three disciplines in a single championships. The following is a list of winners to semi-finalists for all events through the championships.

Men's

Straight Pool

10-Ball

8-Ball

9-Ball

Team

References

External links

Official website
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