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Sunday-Friday 1-6 July 2012

WITH DRAMATIC SHOOTOUT WINS, JAPAN AND GREAT BRITAIN JOIN CHINESE-TAIPEI AND CHINA 2 IN THE SEMI-FINALS OF THE 2012 WORLD POOL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP IN BEIJING

With team supremacy and national pride riding on every shot, Great Britain and Japan stared down some heavy pressure and won dramatic sudden death shootouts to advance to the semi-finals of the 2012 World Pool Team Championship in Beijing.

After claiming a thrilling victory over a fancied and loaded China 1 squad, and silencing the hundreds of hometown fans inside the Tongzhou Luhe High School gymnasium, in the Tongzhou district of China�s capital, Great Britain now move onto the semi-finals where they will play red hot Chinese-Taipei in Thursday�s first semi-final.

With their well played shootout victory over the Philippines, Japan will take on China 2 in the other semi-final.

It was a fitting conclusion to Day 4 of the pool world�s biggest team event, as before this point, the best teams in pool were simply biding their time until the little fish were dispensed with and the big boys and girls could finally get at each other.

The day began with 16 teams out of the original 24 facing off for the first time all week in the single elimination format. This was also the first time fans would get to see the dramatic shootout decide who advanced and who went home.

The shootout is unique to team pool and is implemented when the two teams split their six matches against each other at three matches each. The 8 ball is then put in the middle of the table down near the short rail level with the first diamond and the cue ball is placed way down at the other end near the head string. The three men and one woman on each team take turns trying to pot the 8-ball in either far corner. All players play in sequence and the team to score six hits first with a margin of two or more(6-4, 7-5, etc.) wins the match and advances to the next round.

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