4 Nations
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 ;-)
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| got a very nice email from Paul Dunning, who watched his new teammate geoff brassington on the livestream ;-) |
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| i'm off watching topgear, hope you had a good time following the tournament on this website ;-) Godd Night. |
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| if you have anything to say about the tournament or the website, send me an email (see 'Imprint' for adress) |
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| the videoarchive with the streamed matches will be online tomorrow (thank you felix!!!) |
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| England won the 4 Nations tournament 2009 with Northern Ireland in 2nd place, Republic of Ireland 3rd and Austria in 4th place |
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| Austria 12 Points - we get more points in Billiards than in this Song Contest thing |
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About the 4 Nations
The traditional Four Nations tournament is a friendly competition between teams from Austria, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The event started as the Tri-Nations (between England, NI, and the RoI) in 1998 and followed the same format as the previous England/Northern Ireland competitions with each team playing a mixture of 2 hour matches and 150 up games. Austria was invited to join the anual competition in May 2006.
England usually is the team to beat with Northern Ireland and Ireland battling for the runner-up position and while Austria hasn't yet managed to secure a place on the podium, the players were always able to gain at least a few points for the team.
We'll see how the Austrians perform in front of their own crowd and if England will defend the title it has held for so many years in a row. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland always show much heart when they're battling each other in a friendly billiards competition.
So, an exiting competiton lies ahead of us and not before tournament director Clive Scott's voice conludes the event with a last shout of 'Time, gentlemen, Time!' will the winner be determined.
