Shane Van Boening and Pat Fleming
The sixteen player Bigfoot 10-Ball Challenge happens twice a year (Derby City Classic and The International Open) and since it is a single elimination event, the eventual winner of the event will have gone undefeated. An undefeated run to win one of these events, while impressive, is going to happen. So, how does a player assert their dominance of Bigfoot? If that player is Shane Van Boening, he just goes ahead and wins both yearly events undefeated.
Van Boening scored wins over Mika Immonen (10-4), Roland Garcia (10-9), Aloysius Yapp (10-1!!) and then Joshua Filler in a 10-7 final match that was really not as close as the score would make you believe.
Filler struggled mightily with the break in that final match, finally pocketing a ball on the break late in the match (to the applause of the packed house in attendance), but by then the match was pretty close to decided. Van Boening, on the other hand, had no problems with Bigfoot as he dominated the match to earn his second straight Bigfoot title of the year.
With the conclusion of the 10-ball event, the focus now moves to 9-ball with the 128 player field narrowed to just 24 by the end of play on Thursday.
As always, the International Open Championship is produced by Pat Fleming and selected matches take place in the Simonis Aramith Arena at the Sheraton Waterside Hotel in Norfolk VA.
Fleming and Accu-Stats Video Productions are providing PPV coverage of the event again this year, and Digital Pool is providing online brackets and real time scoring. More information on the PPV event coverage is available at http://www.intlopen.com/watch/. Real time scoring and online brackets are available at the Digital Pool website or right here on AzBilliards.
PPV Information | Real Time Scoring | 9-Ball Brackets | 10-Ball Brackets
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