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For team Europe, Darren Appleton stands as the most winning player for either team Europe or team USA for the number of appearances, having 7 wins for 8 appearances at a whopping 87.5 percentage winnings at the event. An amazing run, and top performing player the cup has ever seen for the number of Cup appearances. Incredible.

Shane Van Boening (SVB) has had 15 Mosconi Cup appearances, but has been on only 3 winning teams, and unfortunately, although he has remained arguably the world’s best player since 2007 when he broke out on to the pool scene, winning the US Open and other top events, and has been atop the billiards world worldwide ever since, always in the top 5 world players throughout -- dominating with a monster break, and run-outs of the highest caliber, arguably that the game has ever seen. However, SVB has the worst winning record at the Cup for the number of appearances, at a dismal twenty percent win record. Does the raucous Mosconi Cup crowd rattle SVB’s constitutional fortitude? For team Europe, Steve Davis has been their “Shane Van Boening,” logging 11 Cup performances, but only 2 Cup wins -- a disappointing 18.2% win record, and one of the worst, if not the worst, showings the cup has ever seen -- perhaps highlighting the conversion from snooker to pool early on, and the growing pains inherent to learning professional level pool.

At this juncture in time, the Cup stands with 12 wins for team Europe, and 11 for team USA, with one tie overall. What will next year hold for the event? Will Earl Strickland be invited back for one more go? Will SVB break his curse and win one for “The Gipper”? We will have to wait and see.

What an amazing event! Great for the fans and game, the Mosconi Cup stands as pool’s most bombastic tournament of world champions. This reporter can’t wait to see what happens in 2022! Vegas here we come.

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