Cambridge University Pool Club

Cambridge University Novices' Tournament 2009

The first event of the Pool Club's 2009-10 calendar - the CUPC Novices' tournament - was held on Sunday, October 11th. 25 novices entered making the tournament the most well attended on record.

Congratulations go to Matt Scott who battled from 4-1 down in the semi final and 3-0 down in the final to take the title.

Matt with the trophy Matt with the trophy

Knockout stage

The top two novices from each group in the first stage (below) progressed to a knockout stage


Group Stage

The first round of the tournament had a group format. Players were split up into eight groups each with one university player (top) and three or four novices, then each player played three frames against every other in their group.

The top two players in each group excluding the university player would progress through to the knockout stage.

GROUP A R M J K T
Rob Cork   2 3 3 2
Matt Scott 1   2 2 3
Jason Russell 0 1   2 2
Kara Anderson 0 1 1   2
Terry Farrelly 1 0 1 1  
GROUP B St O R Sh
Steve McCann   3 2 3
Owen Jones 0   2 2
Rik O'Connor 1 1   2
Shane Dulabdas 0 1 1  
GROUP C A V H B
Ali Argo   3 3 3
Vin Shen Ban 0   3 3
Hiro Funakoshi 0 0   3
Ben Smith 0 0 0  
GROUP D G T D J
Graham Sills   3 3 3
Tim Gossage 0   2 3
Dan Jones 0 1   2
Jing Mo 0 0 1  
GROUP E L E Y M
Luke Bennett   2 3 3
Emma Pewsey 1   2 2
Yinchu Wang 0 1   2
Matt Hathrell 0 1 1  
GROUP F T A M O
Tim Henshaw   3 2 3
Adam Hargreaves 0   3 2
Manav Gupta 1 0   2
Owen O'Byrne 0 1 1  
GROUP G L G D E
Laurence Shaw   2 3 2
Gareth Jefferies 1   2 2
David Gibney 0 1   3
Eric Wang 1 1 0  
GROUP H L D S C
Luke Gleave   2 3 3
Daniel Bates 1   2 2
Shell Dart 0 1   2
Chris Woodhouse 0 1 1  
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