Pontins Home Internatinals and Autumn Festival schedule

[ferret]

Home internationals and Autumn Festival schedules attached at the bottom of this post.

I will be there for the duration and will provide a daily round up of events + pics and general ramblings.

Global-Snooker.com as usual will be providing tournament brackets, results, pictures and reports.

[hotpot]

Where are these played Ferret . Cant see it on there

[snookerdad]

Pontin's, Prestatyn, North Wales.

Tim

[hotpot]

Thanks Tim , always fancied going to Prestatyn

[Souwester]

I shall be there for the duration too :-)

[MattWilson]

Was absolutely gutted I couldn't get the time off work to play in the men's team this year :(

Good luck to all England teams!

MW

[GER147]

Good Luck Scotland! :D

[Souwester]

Can England repeat their clean sweep of ALL the trophies, I wonder? I'm sure they will.

[JanieWatkins]

Good start for Wales on Day One

Men beat Scotland 10-8
Under 19s beat Ireland 10-6

come on the Taffs!!

[Mr P]

You there today Janie?

[JanieWatkins]

You there today Janie?

No I'm not. First time I've missed HI for 25 years or more either as a player or reporter. But I'm in middle of moving house and also have the flu at the moment.

But I am keeping in close touch with my contacts up there.

[Mr P]

Oh right, is this an amatuer tournament, or is thee some big names in attendance?

[ferret]

Masters

Wales 2-5 Scotland
ROI 2-5 NI
ROI 0-5 England

Feels very strange me saying this but full results on Global-Snooker.com later - http://www.global-snooker.com/home-internationals-2010-schedule.asp

[GER147]

Any more news? The coverage is terrible!

[kynaston]

no results for festival on global snooker, ?

[ryanc147]

Don't know about the results being terrible, but the event is having problems as well, my son has played both of his open matches at 1.30 in the morning, the under 16's event has been cancelled because they can't fit the number of players in, feel a bit sorry for people who have spent out money to play snooker and who are falling asleep over the table. by the way this is ryan c's mum commenting not him.

[Deiseboy]

The Home Internationals has a site, they are posting results only on this, no pics or reports.

http://www.hibsf.com/tournament.html

[ferret]

There are the usual internet problems here, I have 2 dongles with me and neither of them can get a decent signal and the pontins wifi that I have access to is intermittent.

I will post results up tomorrow now that I have a average connection but do not hold you breath for pictures until I get home as the images are just too big to upload.

Been some good matches today and over all the event has been going well apart form the U16's being canceled and the madness on the first day for the open, 280 entrants and they had to play best of 5 which really should of been best of 3

[MattWilson]

Personally, I think it is RIDICULOUS to play the HI's at the same time as the Festival.

OK, it gives Pontins a fuller camp for the week, but from a player's perspective it makes no sense.

MW

[ferret]

From what I heard today the U16 was canceled as the local council was not happy about Pontins advertising a event for under 16's during term time so they had to pull it.

[JanieWatkins]

From what I heard today the U16 was canceled as the local council was not happy about Pontins advertising a event for under 16's during term time so they had to pull it.

yes that makes sense. Normally Pontin's are very sensitive to the junior events during term time. And Would just put on a blanket "Junior" or under 21 event.

Matt: There should be no problem at all having HI and Festival with the new scheduling. Double the number of tables (I am assuming the tables WERE put in downstairs?)
HI 9-4
Festival 4 till lights out.
no overlap, no problem
and if they only had 280 including all the HI entries then it would have been extremely low entry without HI players.

[JanieWatkins]

Personally, I think it is RIDICULOUS to play the HI's at the same time as the Festival.

OK, it gives Pontins a fuller camp for the week, but from a player's perspective it makes no sense.

MW

Ah silly me. I forgot - A schedule where they play for their country in the day and in the festival in the evening, might just cut down on their drinking time - OMG shock horror!

Judging from some of the truly appalling reports and photos I've seen on Facebook from Pontin's this week, it would seem that the snooker does actually severely interfere with young players getting absolutely out of their skulls 24 hours a day.

One reason I don't like the HI alongside the Festival is the distraction to players representing their countries by other "guests" who would have little respect for players actually wanting to play some serious snooker and wear their country's waistcoat with pride.

[MattWilson]

Quite right Janie. I've read stuff about players "not really trying" in the HI, and not taking it seriously.

When I played in the HI there was nothing happening in the camp apart from HI which meant focus was entirely on playing snooker and representing your country - what a chore eh?!?! I mean I obviously signed up to play expecting the camp to be full of netballers and getting smashed every night.... Hmmmm.

Some thought needs to be given to the scheduling next year, otherwise the HI will become a joke event where the players turn up steaming in the mornings and aren't fussed about playing for their country.

MW

[ferret]

Quite right Janie. I've read stuff about players "not really trying" in the HI, and not taking it seriously.
It is hard for them to take it seriously when they treat it like a holiday camp!!! several players have turned up a little worse for ware to their games this week, but lets not take that away from the players who have turned up, gone to bed early and not touched a drop of booze all week.

You will know who these people are as they will be the ones in the finals.

The only problem that has happened this week apart form the appalling internet connection was the first day of the HI when John Williams could not use the tables downstairs because there was a band practicing! and with 140 best of 5 matches to play that put things behind for the next few days by about 3 hours, all is sorted now and things are running fine.

[MattWilson]

But it is the players' choice to treat it like a holiday camp. I never touch a drop of booze when I've got a local league match, never mind playing for my country!!! I know there are players who take great pride in playing in the HI, but it seems several do not, which is not on in my opinion.

MW

[JanieWatkins]

It is hard for them to take it seriously when they treat it like a holiday camp!!! several players have turned up a little worse for ware to their games this week, but lets not take that away from the players who have turned up, gone to bed early and not touched a drop of booze all week.

You will know who these people are as they will be the ones in the finals.

The only problem that has happened this week apart form the appalling internet connection was the first day of the HI when John Williams could not use the tables downstairs because there was a band practicing! and with 140 best of 5 matches to play that put things behind for the next few days by about 3 hours, all is sorted now and things are running fine.

When the original planning was taking place it was already known that the downstairs tables wouldn't be available until Sunday or Monday because of a prior event downstairs, so all scheduling should have taken account of that known fact.

[JanieWatkins]

But it is the players' choice to treat it like a holiday camp. I never touch a drop of booze when I've got a local league match, never mind playing for my country!!! I know there are players who take great pride in playing in the HI, but it seems several do not, which is not on in my opinion.

MW

There's a few things I would do with HI.
1. I would take out the Under 19 section that was put in 2 or 3 years ago as an experiment. I don't think it works. That seems to be the element of don't care, don't try and disruptive players in the event and they also have a very bad influence on the Under 16s.
2. I'd do what Holland used to do and put a curfew on players competing for their countries.
3. I'd move it away from Pontin's. Take away this holiday/**** up element and let's get back to the core values of the event, when we broke our backs to earn a place on the team and then gave blood sweat and tears on every shot we played and supported our team mates on every shot they played.

[MasterBreak147]

There's a few things I would do with HI.
1. I would take out the Under 19 section that was put in 2 or 3 years ago as an experiment. I don't think it works. That seems to be the element of don't care, don't try and disruptive players in the event and they also have a very bad influence on the Under 16s.
2. I'd do what Holland used to do and put a curfew on players competing for their countries.
3. I'd move it away from Pontin's. Take away this holiday/**** up element and let's get back to the core values of the event, when we broke our backs to earn a place on the team and then gave blood sweat and tears on every shot we played and supported our team mates on every shot they played.

Disgusting isn't it, agree fully with you both

[Mignon]

Results posted [ http://www.hibsf.com/tournament.html ] but what is the second match in each section on the last day (the 16th of September): plate finals or 3rd place matches (assuming the first match is the final)?
Shame they don't mention the round....:(

[tristan1216]

Has anyone got any news from the home internationals :snooker:

[JanieWatkins]

Has anyone got any news from the home internationals :snooker:

England won the Seniors, Wales runner up
Scotland won Ladies, England runner up
not sure who won the Masters
England won both under 16 and under 19, not sure who was second

[Penalty]

England won the Seniors, Wales runner up
Scotland won Ladies, England runner up
not sure who won the Masters
England won both under 16 and under 19, not sure who was second

Wales won the Masters Janie
Ireland won the Billiards
England were awarded the David Joyce Merit for Billiards

[saddler]

Hi Guys,

First time poster, although I've browsed the forum for months. Great forum.

I'd like to get in touch with Ferret, as I had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time at Pontin's last week, and he took some photos of me in my finest hour! :confused: :snooker: :eek: :D

I don't seem to be able to send private messages, or view anybody's profile, maybe because I haven't posted before?

Anyhoo, if you're reading this, Ferret, can you let me know how best to get hold of those photos please? Otherwise, can anyone else let me know the best way to get in touch with him please?

Thanks in advance.

p.s. Hi Janie, long time no speak!! Hmmm, I wonder if you've worked out who I am yet... :rolleyes:

[ferret]

I Just sent you a email

[saddler]

Brilliant, thanks for that mate. No rush.

[cajt]

Where can I find the results of the Open event?

[ferret]

Chris I have the results on a corrupt hard drive! I don't mean it is laundering money or cheating the benefit office but the data on it is buggered basically.

I have sent the drive off to a data security firm to try and retrieve it along with a whole lot of other stuff data that I should of backed up.

When I get the drive back and the recovered files I will get the results over to you.

[cajt]

Chris I have the results on a corrupt hard drive! I don't mean it is laundering money or cheating the benefit office but the data on it is buggered basically.

I have sent the drive off to a data security firm to try and retrieve it along with a whole lot of other stuff data that I should of backed up.

When I get the drive back and the recovered files I will get the results over to you.

Thanks. I can't find them anywhere which is unusual as the event is usually covered on quite a few sites.