Belgium Open 2008 - Live Snooker Online

CueSport TV has joined forces with Connect Management to bring you 3 days of exclusive live Internet coverage from the Belgium Snooker Open.

The tournament takes place over the weekend of 19th-20th-21st September from the Tennis Centre in Duffel, Belgium.

24 of the world’s best players will be joined by players from Belgium and the rest of Europe to compete for the €5000.00 first prize and the title.

Players already confirmed include no less than five former World Snooker Champions and two world snooker championship finalists, they are; John Parrott, Shaun Murphy, Ken Doherty, Graeme Dott, Mark Williams, Matthew Stevens and Mark Selby, these notable players are also joined by Neil Robertson, Stephen Maguire, Mark Allen, Dominic Dale and Tony Drago amongst many others.

The action is available exclusively to CueSport TV (the world’s only dedicated Cue Sports TV channel) and will cost only £8.00 (€10.00, $15.00) for the full three days of viewing.

This event will be the first of many Snooker offerings from CueSport TV as the company develops their content base throughout the world.

Pete Williams, Managing Director of CueSport TV Ltd, said, "To be involved with the Belgium Snooker Open is a delight for our growing company and further cements our role within the market place, IPTV is certainly the future and high profile events of this nature are what our viewers require."

The pay-per-view tickets are sold online via the CueSport TV portal and go on sale from 9am on September 1st. To buy your ticket login to CueSport TV and select Buy Credits - then select the Belgium Open from the menu. You can checkout securely with PayPal.

About CueSport TV

CueSport TV is the world’s only multi-discipline Cue Sports TV channel that offer’s coverage of pool, snooker and billiards through a 24/7 free-to-air schedule and video on demand. In June this year the company ran a trial of it’s live broadcast capabilities at an Open tournament in Wales – a trial that received rave reviews from viewers and fans.

The channel officially launched in February 2008 and has grown from zero viewers to 10,000 unique viewers per month in the space of just 7 months. In addition the channel has received viewers from 110 countries worldwide that tune in to watch the high quality video.

The unique nature of the system means that a viewers Internet connection speed is detected on first visit. This allows the TV platform to serve a video file that is suitable for the connection, with CueSport TV you will not experience buffering or loading and most connection speeds can watch on full screen.

About Connect Management

Connect Management is a young company that provides consultancy to elite athletes and businessmen. These consist mainly of advice in matters of tax and in a safe way of investing their funds. Many elite athletes view their ability in the short term and often do not know how they should invest their money so they later run into trouble after their professional career has ended.

Connect Management currently has under contract three UK snooker players in Jimmy Michie, Tom Ford and Mark King, all of whom will be playing in the Belgium Open.

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