Shane Van Boening vs Albin Ouschan ▸ Predator WPA World 8-Ball Men's Championship 2023

🏆 ▸ Predator WPA World 8-Ball Men’s Championship 2023
🗓 ▸ October 17-22, 2023
💰 ▸ $250,000 ($75,000 for the champion)
👤 ▸ 96 players
📍 ▸ Sportpark Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
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A race-to-8 double elimination bracket will reduce the field to 32 players who will then face single elimination, race to 10, to determine the champion.
This will be the ninth staging of the men’s World 8-Ball Championship. It had previously been played in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates before being revived from a ten-year hiatus in Puerto Rico last year.
Also taking place in Klagenfurt this week: the Predator WPA World 10-Ball Women’s Championship (18-22 October) and the Predator WPA World 10-Ball Junior Championships (19-22 October), which has divisions for Girls, Boys Under-19s and Boys Under-17s.
#8ball #pool #billiards #probilliardseries #world8ballchampionship

[@cryptonator1988]

Finally 8 ball championship they play 9 ball way too often i like watching 8 ball better. 👌

[@mikefields5208]

About time! So sick of 9 & 10 ball

[@cryptonator1988]

@@mikefields5208 i agree 💯. 👍

[@RCSxMaverick]

It’s because these top pros are just robotic when it comes to 9 and ten ball. They either rarely miss or a back and forth safety battle.

[@MrSacman88]

I completely agree. Love 8-ball.

[@ifancyurmom]

They make 8 ball look so easy, definitely a joy to watch

[@velmabark9223]

Love to watch Shane play! ❤

[@jamesdavis8731]

ATTENTION Organizers of This Tournament: This is the announcing team you need on as many matches as possible! Good commentary, not overdone, they don't act like they are competing against each other, and they actually stay quiet for a bit. Also, congrats to SVB.

[@KvnDWr]

They did an amazing job with the camera crew, announcers and overall presentation. This is one of the first pool events I’ve seen that stacks up against major pro sports in terms of polish. Very well done! The sport needs more of this!

[@muddymo7641]

Traditional color pool balls always! Thank you.

[@lukelyons8716]

The camera angles and the shots of the game were absolutely unreal. There's rarely ever shots and close ups of the players, balls and action. New Favorite Channel!!

[@lukelyons8716]

Close ups of players balls in action? LMAO 🤣 I probably should have proofread that. Hey, I can troll myself 🧌.

[@candraharjosuito]

SVB always my favorite

[@charlesfair1582]

It seems like Alvin is moping like he has lost his best dog. I kind of feel bad for him. But it doesn’t make him any less Lethal. He is still playing great. Thank you Predator for putting this World Tournament together in a world class program. Very enjoyable, wish I was there. And thank you for keeping the traditional pool ball colors. Seems like a funny thing to thank for, but it’s just one of those things that you don’t realize how bad it can be when you lose it! Keep up the great work!

[@RichardsWorld]

As much as I like Shane, he always has that look also.

[@jamesdavis8731]

@@RichardsWorld well this year he seems to always have that look. I commented way back in March and April that he seemed different. That he was not enjoying anything. It has continued until now.

[@RichardsWorld]

@@jamesdavis8731 yeah, might not be enjoying pool and "rather be fishing". I'm sure he'd do anything to win another US Open 9 Ball though.

[@ceretomer5987]

Could be all the travel that these pros have to do. Taxing at times. Additionally, could be personal or family matters at play.

[@alexandpool]

Great match and commentary 💯

[@therackrunner9112]

I like the background music! Lol

[@mtndewu]

You can't be serious. Root of all evil is repetitive back ground mustc. Then someone makes a fallacious comment to promote it Humbug. Wish I could mute the music.

[@GGGenom]

"Your call is important to us. Please remain on the line for the next available agent."

[@Chavagnatze]

A little How It's Made, a dash of hold music, some instructional video, and a bit of shopping mall department store.

[@therackrunner9112]

@@mtndewu hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@therackrunner9112]

Tough crowd! I was self medicated when I was watching! Give me a break! The music was blending nice with the pool! Certain tracks! Lmao

[@branson627]

Y’all should make the race number in the lower left a little smaller so I have to watch on theater Screen to see it

[@christoffar]

Y'all should darn tootin' make the race number in the lower left a darn tootin' little smaller, darn tootin', so I have to watch on a darn tootin' theater screen to see it. Darn tootin'

[@christoffar]

Have a darn tootin' good day sir.

[@garywarrick4905]

Quit bitching. You can see it fine

[@AAAskeet]

What are you on about?

[@horaceball5418]

dont bee racest

[@pepeeltoro1759]

After Efren Shane Van Damme is my favotite player

[@fiddleonair]

Albin's banana shot @1:39:25 is insane

[@ifancyurmom]

So clean

[@JeffMTX]

Yeah that was pretty

[@jadams1722]

*SVB seems to understand this game well*

[@antonhernandez8479]

Love this comment

[@danakreber2249]

Duh

[@AAAskeet]

His favorite game is bar table 8

[@kerrmoney]

What a match!!!!!

[@superking2479]

8 ball yesss finally

[@brjones27]

Ultra-professional ref. Bey you could ask for a tasting afterwards, will show you the new Austrian brand pool cues. :)

[@JeffMTX]

Ouschan never quit, kept running racks. That’s a real pro.

[@a_georgia_beach]

Congratso Shane❤

[@Dungthainguyentv]

so good

[@kerrmoney]

Let’s go SVB!!!!!!!!

[@alexellygalbangonzalez]

Excelente 👏👏👏

[@horaceball5418]

I just subscribed!

[@ketutmayasa3210]

8 ball more tactical... more 😎🔥

[@thomaswilcox409]

So is there no rules about how the rack is set up other then the 8ball in the middle? Just noticed that there was 4 consecutive stripes on the back row of game #2 6:23s

[@music4fun1980]

As long as the bottom 2 on each corner is different, and obviously 8 ball in middle it’s fine.

[@cryptonator1988]

Ouschan plays so damn slow all the time ⏲️ .

[@santiagoespinal8518]

SVB 👍👍👍

[@user-tm8rn2kq8y]

看奧地利選手o打球 1:真是一種折磨

[@roberthickey71471]

Those shoes look sharp.

[@hammerlane3871]

Wow, never thought is see the day when the other player had a longer cue than shane

[@blomster4304]

Shaw has every time they play.

[@hammerlane3871]

@@blomster4304 he has a 6" extension also

[@ArmanIgderi-rs7wo]

عالی

[@clutchcarabelli8054]

ya gotta love Lurch

[@xdarnokx]

Ref looks like his day job is the butler in a haunted house.

[@charlesfair1582]

Don’t know if Alvin’s X-tra long break was designed to hopefully throw Shane off at a crucial moment but all it did was piss him off. He ran out the match.

[@cry_now_laugh_later]

You know that’s not his name right? this is the second comment you’ve called him that.

[@charlesfair1582]

Your right. But I am not typing Alvin, I am typing ALBIN. This phone does this to me quite frequently.sometimes it takes 2 or three tries to get it to allow what I am trying to say. I guess it’s spell check. Usually just happens on unusual words. I do look back too check,but sometimes it waits, sometimes I think till I push’send’. It is a fight. Sometimes I lose. But thank you for pointing this out to me….. Now I am going to have to learn how to turn it off. “I bet it fights me on that too.

[@hagarragah5640]

Why are there no Filipino Predator sponsored men invited? I think they are as good as anybody.

[@johnconnell5086]

agree...

[@baluan3585]

The ammount of seeding comments here 😂😂😂😂

[@jessicaingles6079]

Dry break at 5828.

[@crondawg101]

Why does the graphic at 15:01 say "FOUL"?

[@kiriiamv6007]

I know they are usually playing on 9 footers but this looks like an 8 footer for some reason ?? is it 9 or 8?

[@aliawan5490]

Albins game face is like "im bored can i go home" while his sister "fuk winning ill take your soul"😂😂😂😂

[@shortymack340]

Good match the ref look like he came straight out of a horror flick 😆 🤣

[@supersam1914]

Lmao 🤣

[@tripxez8478]

Spooky

[@jamest3552]

Norman Bates.

[@JeffMTX]

The guy probably has forged a distinguished and respectable career in cue sports. Still I must ask, “YOU RANG???”

[@caohaithanh1134]

I thought Shane post it clearly on Facebook that he wont play for WPA again.....

[@Chavagnatze]

I though he didn't like the 2 sets of race to 4 in the predator10 ball events. There were complaints from the players of long wait times between matches as well.

[@mike_shredz]

Betcha as soon as prize money at any given WPA event reach the skies (pretty much possible outcome I'd assume) literally everyone would come from any part of the world wherever they were. Shane included (even though he does not have anything to prove, apart from trying to win the USO for the record-breaking 6th time)

[@caohaithanh1134]

@@Chavagnatze No he said clearly that he wont every play for WPA again because they force them to choose between WPA and Matchroom. And now he s here .... but it s fine cause i just want to watch the best pool

[@johnfritsch258]

I thought last year Predator wouldn't let Shane wear his Cue-Tec sponsor logo's so he couldn't play according to his agreements with Cue-Tec.

[@caohaithanh1134]

@@johnfritsch258 No. He said this on his Facebook : 4 things I have to say about this… 1. It’s unfortunate for the billiard industry that pro players are being put into a position to have to choose which events they will be playing next year and toward the future. 2. Bye bye WPA! 😎 I have decided that I can not back an organization that can put players and promoters in bad situations. I will be playing matchroom events only and possibly few smaller events in the US that is not sanctioned by WPA or BCA. We will see what the future holds for our sport and just keep in mind, I’m not asking other players to join me, but I wish everybody the best of luck on deciding what is best for them in these rough times. 3. I don’t feel that anyone should be able to tell a player what they can play and I don’t worry for me but I do for the players that don’t have the same support from sponsors that I do. Their ability to make money is going to be limited based on only being able to play limited events. 4. Less tournaments for me to play

[@bpraise517]

How does the best US player not make the poster?

[@johnconnell5086]

one of the greatest players of all time....maybe the others use predator equipment...good eye on your part....most people wouldnt have noticed...

[@fahmitirta]

What's going on when VSB break in rack 10? I don't know about the rules well.

[@johnfritsch258]

replay was from an earlier break. Shane broke dry.

[@fahmitirta]

@@johnfritsch258 thankyou sir

[@garbygarb31]

The music makes this video unmatchable

[@jamest3552]

SVB beat Albin. 😲

[@spideyxstrange2927]

The 8 ball pool game has much more infographics than this. Horrible to watch without knowing what ball have got in, how many balls left, which ball the player play

[@TheAntMan101]

That first rack has 4 stripes in the back?

[@poullange125]

Is it only outside US Fedor Gorst is an American ?????

[@raymondcaraway]

Only Matchroom consider him American.

[@mike_shredz]

Nice response :) I understand the pool fans turn their attention to Fedor nowadays maybe more than ever. But take Kristina Tkach, for instance. She received her green card/ residency permit long before Fedor. And what? Did the pool world consider her American? Nope, she continued playing under white flag, since WPA lifted the ban. It is only a matter of time when both get US citizenship, so any eager fan has to keep patient. But as of now, it is just a move by Matchroom. They even made a fix to their own rules on this matter. We should call it 'Fedor Rule' ever since.

[@jamest3552]

lol

[@jessicaingles6079]

5843 makes the 1 ball in the side. WTF ?

[@sralexthegreat3094]

It was the reply of the break before the dry break

[@muddymo7641]

You don't strike too well and draw it too much. No comprende

[@blomster4304]

World Championships...in biggest pockets.

[@jessicaingles6079]

1 in the side right after the dry break. WTF?

[@charickter]

PREDATOR.. Not having a shot clock visible from BOTH ends of the table is amateur and unacceptable! The Accu-Stats folks have been doing this for years! Do better! (edit) My apologies. I should probably be addressing this to the WPA and not Predator.

[@mike_shredz]

The refereeing team (EPBF referees) work with handheld devices for ages. Pretty easy for all sides involved, and not costing anything to the promoter. What is needed is a ref making a call 10 sec prior to end of time, to inform a player. Never let anybody down (yet there were instances when players were late with the shot, resulting in a time violation foul). Can't argue that a visible shotclock works good for the viewing audience.

[@skmalladi]

Shane looks like he's annoyed all the time. Albin looks like the burden of having to shoot is something he'd rather not bear. Where's the joy of play? It doesn't make the viewing experience a happy one for me to watch such grumpy faces put up a mechanical performance.

[@jamesdavis8731]

Ya, Albin always looks depressed. Shane just doesn't seem to be enjoying anything.

[@AAAskeet]

Are you happy at work?

[@jamesdavis8731]

@@AAAskeet I am not exactly sure what you mean by your comment. But, yes, I am happy when playing pool. I might not laugh and joke, but I don't act like I am about to get a prostate exam by a doctor with fingers bigger than an elephants trunk. And I am also happy at work. Maybe I am lucky that I have a job (business actually) that I look forward to every day. Albin acts like the most miserable pool player I have ever seen, except for Earl Strickland. You can be serious, a tough competitor, and have some damn personality. Albin acts a lot like Pia Filler. Depressing.

[@mike_shredz]

@skmalladi , I woudda given you three thumbsup if allowed. Pool is a game, and people are supposed to enjoy playing games. If it does not bring fun to you, it's time to switch to anything else which would. Bring more smiles to this pool world, it is in a poor state anyway, so why add more negativity?

[@mikefields5208]

​@@jamesdavis8731I love this comment makes absolute sense.

[@KAKA-nx3po]

When Van Boening plays, I am confident that he will win before he plays, even if the opponent wins by 5 wins, he will come back and turn it around.

[@PostUp_Time]

Shane took Alvin out in a Final. And Shane has his number in 8 ball too. SVB/FSR Final?

[@cry_now_laugh_later]

But what about Simon and Theodore?

[@charlesfair1582]

Mialja…..Now that’s funny! Thanks, I needed that.😊🤗👏🏼👍🍻🌞💃🏼🕺🫵🏽✌️

[@jamest3552]

Albin took him out in Hanoi, after Shane led big.

[@rds99]

The music is annoying

[@jlevilynn]

Pretty weak that the women's top prize is only 2/3 of the mens top prize.

[@sarcastaball]

Pretty weak that women's billiards isn't nearly as popular as men's. This discrepancy will not stand, man. Also, isn't it like chess tournaments where there's an open class, for everybody, but also a women's class for those women who want it?

[@bamhva9852]

Why would anyone still be wearing a mask 😂😂😂

[@huydinh9863]

.

[@Tanfo77]

How come they don't call the 8 ball shot?

[@charlesfair1582]

Tanfo77. They call every shot. They have a very good rapport with the Referee.

[@GGGenom]

When the cue ball has a clear path to the object ball and the object ball has a clear path to the pocket then the shot is considered obvious and doesn't need to be explicitly called.

[@AAAskeet]

Because it’s not stupid APA where you need to put a bean bag frog on your pocket

[@jamest3552]

​@@AAAskeet 😂. VNEA stopped that many years ago, thankfully.

[@rogerharris231]

@@AAAskeet I play APA, and I always tell my opponent to just call the 8-ball pocket. It's annoying when your opponent has a simple, obvious shot on the 8 and you're about to lose the rack, but then you have to wait for him to find a marker, walk around the table to place it and walk back -- a pointless waste of time. That, and the "cue ball fouls only" rule are supposedly because there is no ref, but the 8-ball marker is nonsense; everyone can clearly see what pocket is indicated.

[@favieanfausta2618]

USA don't have local athlete lol

[@user-mv7qz5mj4m]

I love playing this game but oh my god there is absolutely no atmosphere watching this. I fell asleep

[@doogie64]

Unwatchable with the porn music in the background.