An excellent write up of the events of the weekend Triangular tournament can be found here on the Bangkok Pool League website.

An analysis of the Jakarta playing results by opposition team and Player.

Results for all teams can be summarised as follows:

Whichever way you add it up, congratulations, Bangkok!!

 

PS Lots of photos of the event to be found here and some of the welcome events here.

Virtually the entire Jakarta All Stars squad are now in place and made a night of it at the very fine Hustlers pool bar in the centre of Bangkok last night and were entertained with a 10-ball money game race to 13 between Mika Immonen and Stuart Pettman which ended in a 13-7 to Stuart in what many will see as an upset.

More practice and some  friendly matches against local teams planned at the “Ball in hand” pool bar today before the reception tonight at the famous Nana Liquid Nightclub.

Mika Immonen (right) and Petri Makkonen of Finland beat Wojciech Szewczyk and Karol Skowerski of Poland to win the World Cup of Pool in Manila on Sunday. Team Finland won 10-8.

Fortunately, Mika will not be charging AEPC any extra for his appearance at our event in Bangkok next week!

The withdrawal of Team Singapore has required a revision of  the format and schedule for the day, so that the number of frames per match increase. With four tables in permanent action there will be a total of 180 frames played, and with every one counting!

Here is the  format revision.

The overall schedule has changed a little as a result – and is now as follows:

	Event opens at 1pm.
	Player registrations arranged in 4 teams of 5 players by 1.15pm
	Matches 1 through to 4  – 1.30pm to 4pm
	Matches 5 through to 8 – 4pm to 6.30pm
	Dinner and Mika Immonen Challenge Match – 6.30pm – 7.30pm
	Matches 9 through to 12 – 7.30pm to 10pm.
	Presentations and closing ceremony 10.10pm to 10.30pm.
	Event closes at 11pm.

Bangkok has arranged for former professional snooker player, Stuart Pettman to play Mika at the AEPC on 15th September.

A native of Northern England, Stuart retired from professional snooker last year and is now clearly finding the game on the smaller table to his taste having recently beaten Chris Melling after Chris had won the China Open – and was runner up in the Vietnam Open 9 Ball Championship in 2011, so is clearly a class act.

We can look forward to a fine exhibition during the break between matches!

Here is a report received from Mark Sims on the Jakarta All Stars final warm up match against the Jakarta Nationals side held at Fez/Down under on Saturday last.

“Challenge the Jakarta national players at your peril!!

This was the message dished out in emphatic fashion, as the Jakarta All Stars vs Jakarta Nationals challenge reached its conclusion on Saturday 1st September 2012, at Fez Down Under.

The challenge had been contested over three separate Saturdays. On 30th June, at Everest, the Jakarta Nationals sounded the first warning with a convincing 18-12 victory. Lesson learnt, and the Jakarta All Stars realized that they would have to lift their game if they wanted to have any chance at lifting the trophy.

Hoping to turn the tables on 8th July, the Jakarta All Stars fell agonizingly short, going down 22-18. The 1st September was another close affair, with the Jakarta Nationals prevailing by 21-19. Overall winners of the JAS vs Nationals challenge were, therefore, the Jakarta Nationals by a scoreline of 61-49.

Congratulations to the Jakarta Nationals. They played impressive pool, approached the challenge with fantastic spirit and provided strong competition for a Jakarta All Stars team which is hoping to reclaim the Asia Expat Pool Challenge title. Thanks to Abi, Anto, Riva & Andie DJ for their organization and support of the JAS cause.

Thanks also to Sake (Everest), Rina, Charles & Fred (Fez & Fez Down Under) for making your facilities available, as well as complimentary drinks and snacks.

Finally, thanks to all players, both JAS and Jakarta Nationals, for your time, effort and support, in making this a worthwhile event.

The challenge continues when we return from Bangkok.

Mark Sims

for Jakarta All Stars Organizing Committee”

For those ignorant of same, the Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains approximately 28 species (including four incompletely characterized species as recognized by Willem Meijer in 1997), all found in southeastern Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Thailand and the Philippines.^[1]

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818 and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition. It was discovered even earlier by Louis Deschamps in Java between 1791 and 1794, but his notes and illustrations, seized by the British in 1803, were not available to western science until 1861.

The Raffelsia is the National flower of Indonesia – and its smell approximates to that of a rotting corpse – and in appearance has more than a passing resemblance to one.