Blog entry from 2022-01-28
The Royal Pro Home Tour is an international carom billiards tournament series that is played online via the MWS system at various MWS locations worldwide. On January 29th and 30th a three cushion and a five pins team competition of this series take place, which is endowed with a total of € 10,000 prize money for the 2021/22 sports season. This coming weekend's tournaments are the Home Tour events nine and ten out of a total of 20 this season. The last two team events won the German doubles of ATSV Erlangen (20 Nov 2021, three cushion) and the Dutch team from Ernst-Jan's Base Camp (21 Nov 2021, five pins). The "Oranje" from Helmond is at the start again this time with their successful team of Ernst-Jan Driessen and Marius Kroonen and of course want to defend their title.
Tournaments and broadcasts start on both days at 10:00am. All live streams and live results are provided free of charge and freely available on our live sports platform MYWEBSPORT.COM/LIVE:
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The three cushion tournament on next Saturday is played in round robin mode as a Scotch Double team tournament with second chance. In this mode, both players from both teams play a match together. The matches are played in the 3 Points Open End system on 4 winning sets (best of 7 sets), the players of a team take turns after each shot. Second chance means that the teams repeat their first miss once in each inning - so they get a second chance to continue their runs. The other team player carries out the repetitive shot. The 3 points open end system works as follows: Current runs are never interrupted when the set distance is reached, but always played to the end. As soon as a team has at least 3 points in a set, that set is "sharp". Then the opposing team must at least equalize this score with its next inning in order to stay in the set. The set is played until a team can no longer meet the requirement "equalize or overtake" and thus loses the set.
These are the participating teams in the three cushion tournament:
- Team Heineken: Riml, Jimmy / Saska, Harald (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Team Power Turtles: Efler, Andreas / Efler, Brigitte (Hinterbrühl, Austria)
- Team Ratisbona Flukes: Bachmaier, Roman / Dmitriev, Ivan (Regensburg, Germany)
- Team Schurli's Base Camp: Schmied, Georg / Truong, Tay-Dien (Rosenburg-Mold, Austria)
In the five pins tournament, the matches are played in double mode on 2 winning sets (best of 3 sets) of 50 points each. In this mode, both players from both teams play a match together too. The players of a team take turns when the opposing team has scored points or when their own team has committed a foul.
These are the participating teams in the five pins tournament:
- Team BC Basel: Antonazzo, Cosimo / Steiner, Ernesto (Basel, Switzerland)
- Team Ernst-Jan's Base Camp: Driessen, Ernst-Jan / Kroonen, Marius (Helmond, Netherlands)
- Team Heineken: Ofner, Frank / Riml, Jimmy (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Team Momentum: Stam, Gerd / Tschander, Andreas (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Team Power Turtles: Efler, Andreas / Efler, Brigitte (Hinterbrühl, Austria)
