Tenball
Tenball was a cue sports tournament that was staged only once, in 1995. It was a hybrid of snooker and pool rules and gameplay, played on a snooker table with snooker balls. An ITV/LWT TV series Tenball, hosted by Phillip Schofield, ran for one 1995 series, forming an eight-man tournament, ultimately won by Jimmy White.
Rules
The game and the ITV/LWT TV series Tenball focused on a tournament that was created in 1995 by a team consisting of managers Russ Lindsay and Peter Powell, snooker player Steve Davis who devised the rules and entrepreneur Barry Hearn who was asked to do the promotion for the event to add razzmatazz to the show. The series was hosted by Phillip Schofield and its set was designed by Andy Walmsley. The sole season, in 1995, saw Jimmy White win the tournament, while Peter Ebdon achieved the Highest [snooker break|highest break] of 122 .The hybrid snooker/pool game the show revolves around is not regularly played outside the show, and features a of 16 in a diamond configuration, 15 worth 1 each and a black-and-yellow 10 ball, as well as various with differing point values, on specific. The pack is not racked at the behind the as it would be in snooker, but, unlike in any other form of pocket billiards, racked in the middle of the table on the.
Games competed over for ITV's Tenball series featured best of five frame matches. However, unlike in regular snooker, the first potted colour in a break associated the score for every colour potted in that break thereafter, rather than the score of the colour that the ball that was potted. The series also promoted similar to pool if a foul was played, or could receive ten points for each foul shot. Three consecutive fouls from a player would cause them to lose the frame.