The World Team Championship 2012 (WTC 2012) was played from 1 to 4 July 2012 in Beijing, China. It was the second edition of the World Team Championship which was sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, for pool teams.
The event was won the Chinese Taipei team by a 4–0 victory in the final against Japan. The defending champion Great Britain was eliminated in the semi-finals against the eventual champion.
Format Each participating team consisted of four to five players, including at least one female player. The games consisted of two sets in the disciplines eight-ball, nine-ball and ten-ball with the two 8-ball matches were played in men's singles. The woman played a 9-ball and a 10-ball match. The two 10-ball matches were played as a double, whilst 9-ball was played in singles.
Prize money A total of $300,000 in prize money was distributed, the winning team received $80,000. Below are the prize money per team indicated.
PositionAmountWinner80.000 US-$Finalist40.000 US-$Semi-finalists20.000 US-$Quarter-finalists12.000 US-$Last 167.500 US-$Double elimination4.000 US-$
Participating teams Teams were split into six groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing. Teams were made up of either four or five players. Teams representing each nation are shown below: GroupNationPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4(Player 5)AErki ErmJoonas SaskaMark MagiAnna GrintosukRicky YangIrsal NasutionMuhammad ZulfikiriAmand RahayuIvica PutnikBožo PrimićKarlo DalmatinZrinka AntonijevićEfren ReyesFrancisco BustamanteDennis OrcolloRubilen AmitB 1Li HewenFu JianboLiu HaitaoFu XiaofangPan Xiao TingPetri MakkonenAki HeiskanenAbbas al-MarayatiMarika PokkijokiJason KlattJohn MorraErik HjorleifsonBrittany BryantIbrahim Bin AmirPatrick OoiMoh Keen HooKlaudia DjajalieCDavid RothallLouis CondoRobby FoldvariLyndall Hulley 2Dang JinhuDai YongHan HaoxiangLiu ShashaChen SimingKenny KwokLee ChenmanAndrew KongEllen CheungRuby CheungSharik Aslam SayedToh Lian HanAloysius YappLum Wai KeongAnn Koh SengDYukio AkakariyamaTōru KuribayashiNaoyuki ŌiChihiro KawaharaMateusz ŚniegockiRadosław BabicaTomasz KapłanOliwia ZalewskaMarcus ChamatTomas LarssonAndreas GerwenCarline RoosDo The KienNguyen Anh TuanNguyen Manh TungDoan Thi Ngoc LeEDarren AppletonDaryl PeachChris MellingMark GrayKelly FisherAlok KumarSundeep GulatiSayed HabibNeena PraveenDave van den BergDino NairNickie ErasmusNicola RossouwLee WansuRyu Seung-wooHwang YoungKim Ga-youngFChang Jung-linFu Che-weiKo Pin-yiChuo Chieh-yuOliver OrtmannThorsten HohmannRalf SouquetJasmin MichelL. MunkboldL. DelgerdalaiT. AmarjargalB. UyangaA. BatkhuuRoger RasmussenMats SchjetneMatey UllahIne Helvik
Tournament bracket The results below are from the knockout stages onwards.
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