World Championships in dynamic pyramid took place in Taraz (Kazakhstan). National teams from 19 countries participated in this tournament. Kanybek Sagynbayev from Kyrgyzstan won the competition.
Last in this year tournament for juniors realized as a part of International Billiard Academy took place during last weekend (13-14.09.2014) in Kanianka ‘B’ billiard club in Slovakia. The event turned out as a great success of young Polish players who copeted with their friends from Slovakia and Czech Rep.
The great job did the representatives of UKS ‘Milek’ from Wislica – Wojciech Dynia, Dawid Kuzniakowski, Hubert Sagan and Jakub Haczyk. Their determination lead them to the victory in team competition.
The course in pyramid for disabled people took place in Kielce. 12 people took part in this training.
The rules of the game and particular strike technics were explained by the President of EEBC - Marcin Krzeminski. Players and activists had played pool billiard before they joined this course so they had no difficulties with understanding the rules. More mistakes were made during strinking the balls.
The meeting of the board of International Committee of Pyramid took place in Cholpon-Ata (Kyrgyzstan). The chairman of the event was the president of ICP - Pawel Zawalny.
ICP created sport plan for 2015 and accepted the developement startegy for Middle and Western Europe which was presented by the vice-president - Marcin Krzeminski. Thanks to the agreement between East European Billiard Council and ICP in this year players will compete in Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Rep., Slovakia and Israel.
International Pyramid Confederation and East European Billiard Council signed an agreement concerning pyramid development. The presidents of both organizations signed a document which contains details about their common aims. EEBC will be organizing tournaments and trainings in Middle and Western Europe.
About 10 events in 6 countries will take place in 2014. Financial support provided by IBC will help the best players to start in world championships.
After a dramatic final Radoslaw Babica became the winner of Dynamic Best of the East – Romania 10-Ball in Bucharest. The leader of the ranking is still Ioan Ladany who got the second place in TAC Club. Babken Melkonyan and Radu Anghel from Romania won the bronze medals. 84 players from 7 countries (Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Israel, Moldova, Lebanon and Belgium) played in the tournament.
Ioan Ladany – no 1 of Romanian billiard became the winner of the next tournament of Black Sea Cup organized by Romanian Billiard Association and City Club from Constanta. In a final match defeated Stanimir Ruslanov from Bulgaria. The third place got Babken Melkonyan (tournament organizer) and Chiritoiu Liviu.
Gagik Aratunyan from Czech was the best in EEBC Pyramid Open – Germany Championships in Berlin. In a final match defeated Dieter Johns (USA) 3:2.
Vadim Polevoy and Sergej Poroschkevitsch from Germany got the bronze medals. In general 32 players from Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep. and USA started in tournament. The only woman in the tournament – Olga Poleschova from Czech Rep. got a special prize. ‘Billard Club Pyramide’ tournament was a kond of sport marathon. Due to the big number of participants, 3 tables and mixed sport level the Saturday’s matches ended late in the night. The prizes and cups founded by East European Billiard Council were given on Sunday at 8 pm.
Two players from Serbia – Sandor Tot and Zoran Svilar played in the final of Dynamic Best of the East – Bulgaria 10-Ball which took place on July, 26 – 27. The result was not surprising. Tot won 7:4. While the best players from Poland and Bulgaria were absent (they were taking part in Team World Champpionships in China) only Romanians could compete with Serbs. The best of them – Ioan Ladany in the semifinal was leading 3:0 with Tot, but eventually lost 4:7. Similar situation took place in the second semifinal where Radoslav Milkov from Bulgaria, after a good start, was finally defeated by Svilar. In a final we could watch a friendly match between two good colleagues. Svilar started well but Tot got the better than him very soon and won the match 7:4. 70 players from 10 countries (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Cyprus, Belarus, Georgia and Slovakia) played in Bulgaria 10-Ball.
