The 2012
European Pool Championships was a professional
pool tournament held 21–31 March 2012 in ''Alvisse Parc Hotel'' in
Luxembourg City hosted by the
European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF). The disciplines were played
eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
,
nine-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 ...
,
ten-ball and
straight pool
Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...
in the categories ''Men's'', ''Ladies'' and ''wheelchairs''. The wheelchair users played for the titles only in 8-ball, 9-ball and 10-ball.
The most successful player was the Finnish wheelchair user Jouni Tähti who won two events, the Spaniard
Francisco Díaz-Pizarro and the Austrian
Mario He
Mario He (Born 3 August 1993, Rankweil, Austria) is an Austrian professional pool player. He is a former winner of the European Pool Championships, and winner of both the 2017 and 2019 World Cup of Pool events alongside Albin Ouschan.
Career
...
each won event and reached a semi-final in another once.
Format
The event was first played in all categories in a
double-elimination tournament followed by a
single-elimination tournament from the quarter-final onwards.
Winners
Men's
The events from the quarter-finals are shown below.
8-Ball
9-Ball
10-Ball
Straight pool
Women's
The events from the quarter-finals are shown below.
8-Ball
9-Ball
10-Ball
Straight pool
Wheelchair event
The events from the quarter-finals are shown below.
8-Ball
9-Ball
10-Ball
Team event
The team competitions initially took place in a double elimination event. From the quarter-finals (men) or from the semifinals (ladies) was played in a single elimination format. One team consisted of three players. A game consisted of three individual games in the disciplines 8-ball, 9-ball and 10-ball. In the women's team, two players were in each team, one game consisted of two individual games in 8-ball and 9-Ball.
The events from the quarter-finals are shown below.
Men
Women
Medals' table
References
External links
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2012 in cue sports
2012 in Luxembourgian sport
International sports competitions hosted by Luxembourg
European Pool Championships