Tenball
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 8 April – 20 May 1995 |
| Venue | Methodist Church Hall[1] |
| City | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Organisation | ITV, LWT |
| Winner's share | £20,000 |
| Final | |
| Champion | Template:Flagicon Jimmy White |
| Runner-up | Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan |
| Score | 3–1 |
Tenball was a cue sports tournament that was staged only once, in 1995. It was a hybrid of snooker and pool rules and gameplay, played on a snooker table with snooker balls. An ITV/LWT TV series Tenball, hosted by Phillip Schofield, ran for one 1995 series, forming an eight-man tournament, ultimately won by Jimmy White.
Rules
| Colour | Value |
|---|---|
| File:Snooker ball red.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Red]] | 1 point |
| File:Snooker ball green.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Green]] | 3 points |
| File:Snooker ball brown.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Brown]] | 4 points |
| File:Snooker ball blue.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Blue]] | 5 points |
| File:Snooker ball pink.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Pink]] | 6 points |
| File:Snooker ball black.png [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|Black]] | 7 points |
| File:ButtonYellow.svg Black-and-yellow | 10 points |
The game and the ITV/LWT TV series Tenball focused on a tournament that was created in 1995 by a team consisting of managers Russ Lindsay and Peter Powell, snooker player Steve Davis who devised the rules and entrepreneur Barry Hearn who was asked to do the promotion for the event to add razzmatazz to the show. The series was hosted by Phillip Schofield and its set was designed by Andy Walmsley.[2] The sole season, in 1995, saw Jimmy White win the tournament, while Peter Ebdon achieved the highest break of 122 [3] (out of a possible 200).[4][3]
The hybrid snooker/pool game played on the show featured a [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|pack]] ([[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|rack]]) of 16 [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|object balls]] in a diamond configuration, 15 [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|reds]] worth 1 each and a black-and-yellow 10 ball, as well as various [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|colour balls]] with differing point values, on specific [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|spots]].[5] The pack is not racked at the [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|top of the table]] behind the [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|pink spot]] as it would be in snooker, but, unlike in any other form of pool, racked in the middle of the table on the [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|centre spot]].[3]
Games competed over for ITV's Tenball series featured best of five frame matches. However, unlike in regular snooker, the first potted colour in a break associated the score for every colour potted in that break thereafter, rather than the score of the colour that the ball that was potted.[3][4] The series also promoted [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|ball in hand]] similar to pool if a foul was played, or could receive ten points for each foul shot. Three consecutive fouls from a player would cause them to lose the frame.[4][1]
Prize money
A potential £30,000 was on offer in the tournament (plus potential losers/appearance money that was not divulged), with £10,000 for a [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|maximum break]] of 200, and £20,000 for the winner (Jimmy White).[6]
Results
Eight players competed in the Tenball tournament. In the semi-finals, Jimmy White defeated Tony Drago with a score of 3-1, while Ronnie O'Sullivan triumphed over Stephen Hendry with a 3-1 victory. The final saw Jimmy White emerging victorious against Ronnie O'Sullivan with a score of 3-1.[7]
| Quarter-finals Best of 5 [[Glossary of cue sports terms#template:plain text|frames]] | Semi-finals Best of 5 frames | Final Best of 5 frames | ||||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Steve Davis | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Tony Drago | 3 | Template:Flagicon Tony Drago | 1 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Jimmy White | 3 | Template:Flagicon Jimmy White | 3 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Alex Higgins | 0 | Template:Flagicon Jimmy White | 3 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon John Parrott | 1 | Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan | 1 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan | 3 | Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan | 3 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Stephen Hendry | 3 | Template:Flagicon Stephen Hendry | 1 | |||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Peter Ebdon | 1 | |||||||||||||
References
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