Day One in Moscow is in the books. I believe its my fifth time here in the Russian capital. 2013 I was able to pull a win 🥇, 2015 I finished 3rd 🥉, 2016 2nd 🥈 and last year, well - I participated! 💩
The first thing that is like caviar to the eye, is the magnificent venue. We used to play at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium but this year the “Petite Loujniki Arena” right next to the monster Luzhniki Stadium where the final of the World Cup Soccer last year was held, serves as our venue and has kept its character from the previous years.
There are three disciplines being played. 10-Ball, Pyramid for men and Pyramid for women.
For 10-Ball Pool we have 118 players from over 30 countries competing on 17 tables over four days for the trophy (the one I won in 2013 looks like a deadly weapon)
It is nice to see the entire US Mosconi Cup Squad participating here under the surveillance of their coaches Johan Ruysink and Jeremy Jones. Following the Kremlin Cup they will battle in the ultimate rivalry against Team Russia in the “Dream Challenge”
Match time:
In the early shift at 10am I was able to win 8:3 against youngster Sokolov from Russia 🇷🇺. In Germany we would say “It wasn’t the yolk of the egg” but a win is a win.
In the late afternoon I kept it together against Magi from Estonia 🇪🇪 with 8:4.
Play will continue for me tomorrow at local time 2pm again Polish 🇵🇱 Sroczynski…
There are five Germans in the race with Ralf Souquet, Joshua and Pia Filler, Stefan Noelle and I 🇩🇪
The tournament brackets can be found here:
To be continued…
Thorsten