Editor's Note

I hope everyone who visited this website enjoyed the information and updates i tried to give you during the 4 Nations tournament. The visitor statistic as been very good regarding the size of the Billiards Community and i hope everyone liked what s/he saw. This website, which i put together a few days before the start of the tournament, was a private project to support the sport and this tournament in particular because in my opinion the internet is an important medium to promote English Billiards where a small community is scattered over so many countries and continents.

Thanks to Felix, whom most of you will know as the Webmaster of billiard-junkies.co.uk - Felix ran the Livestream and takes care of the required hard/software, he provided me with ideas for improvement on the site and allowed me to host the site on our homeserver. Thanks to those who kindly provided me with information, logos or comments and to those who told me that i did a great job - a girl always loves compliments ;-)

Poll

Tweets

got a very nice email from Paul Dunning, who watched his new teammate geoff brassington on the livestream ;-)
i'm off watching topgear, hope you had a good time following the tournament on this website ;-) Godd Night.
if you have anything to say about the tournament or the website, send me an email (see 'Imprint' for adress)
the videoarchive with the streamed matches will be online tomorrow (thank you felix!!!)
England won the 4 Nations tournament 2009 with Northern Ireland in 2nd place, Republic of Ireland 3rd and Austria in 4th place
Austria 12 Points - we get more points in Billiards than in this Song Contest thing

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Mobile Billiards

Billiards Car

Well yes, i quite agree that this is the most beautiful Billiards themed car ... in the world ;-)

	May i wish all the competing countries and especially the Austrian hosts all the very best of luck in this years 4 nations. England will as usual be a very hard team to beat, however i am sure the competition will be fierce - but fair, and off course the 'crac' excellant. Heres to a successfull event and to the continued growth of this fantastic tournament.
Philip Welham - Honorary Member of the HSEBC & Junior Comitee Member of the EABA

For the further development of the Austrian Billiards sport it is very important to be a part of these traditional tournament series. Therefore it is my honour to cordially welcome the players and officials who participate in the tournament in Austria and wish them a nice stay and a lot of success in the competition. In the name of the Austrian Snooker and Billiards Association I thank the tournament's organisation team and the HSEBC Vienna for all their hard work.

Alexander Pichler - President of the Austrian Snooker & Billiards Association

4 Nations Patronage

The Austrian minister for national defense and sport Mag. Norbert Darabos took over the patronage of the 2009 4 Nations tournament. He also contributed a nice trophy for the winning team.

As the sporting director for English Billiards in the Austrian Snooker & Billiards Association (ÖSBV) I'm very pleased to be a part of the organising team of this important tournament. I can only emphazise that to hold this event in Vienna is another great chance for Austrian Billiards to manifest its place on the European Billiards-firmament together with three countries where Billiards is absolutely one of the most popular sports, very different to the Billiards scene in Austria.
To be a player of the Austrian National Billiards Team makes me proud and is a great motivation to play my best Billiards to help our team improving the performance in comparison with the last years' ones.
As a Billiards enthusiast I think the whole "Billiards-thing" that will happen this weekend is another clear evidence of friendship and sportmanship and a big Billiards-Community including players and sportsmen from many different places. And it is just Billiards that brings them togehter and therefore let the game be the winner this weekend and generally.

Patrick Stegmeier - Member of the Austrian Billiards Team

I would like to take this opportunity to wish the Austrian Team and all involved in the organisation of this tournament, very best wishes for the weekend. It will be a proud occasion for Austria to host this event for the first time and from experience I know they will make a wonderful success of doing so. I will be monitoring events closely on the tournament website and look forward to seeing the continuing progess made by the Austrian players.

Paul Dunning - Chairman of EBOS & EABA Junior Game Treasurer