1980 Pot Black

http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1980/829 Triggered by \bcuetracker\.net\b on the local blacklist Cyberbot II false August 2016 August 2016 1980 Pot Black Recorded late December 1979 (broadcast 1980 01 4 1980 04 18 y) Pebble Mill Studios Birmingham England Non-ranking event £2000 NIR Dennis Taylor (87) AUS Eddie Charlton WAL Ray Reardon 2–1 1979 1981 The 1980 Pot Black event was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held at the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The tournament began with eight players competing in two groups of four using a round-robin format. The matches were one-frame shoot-outs in the group stages, two-frame aggregate scores in the semi-finals, and best-of-three-frames in the final. Broadcast on BBC2, the programmes started at 21:00 on Friday 4 January 1980.BBC Television – 4 January 1980 – Pot Black http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1980-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20141017065500/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1980-01-04 dead 17 October 2014 BBC Genome Project BBC 25 February 2017 Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee. The first programme of the series featured reigning Pot Black champion Ray Reardon playing against the then world champion Terry Griffiths making his Pot Black debut. Reardon reached the final where he lost 1–2 to Eddie Charlton who himself won his third title equalling the record set by John Spencer.BBC Television – 18 April 1980 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1980-04-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20141019164458/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1980-04-18 dead 19 October 2014 BBC Genome Project BBC 25 February 2017http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1980/829 cuetracker.net CueTracker - 1980 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics 25 February 2017 Main draw Group 1 Player 1ScorePlayer 2Broadcast DateWAL Ray Reardon1–0WAL Terry Griffiths4 January 1980ENG John Spencer0–1NIR Dennis Taylor18 January 1980WAL Ray Reardon1–0ENG John Spencer1 February 1980WAL Terry Griffiths0–1NIR Dennis Taylor22 February 1980WAL Terry Griffiths0–1ENG John Spencer29 February 1980WAL Ray Reardon0–1NIR Dennis Taylor14 March 1980 Group 2 Player 1ScorePlayer 2Broadcast DateWAL Doug Mountjoy125–10ENG Graham Miles11 January 1980South Africa 1928 Perrie Mans0–1AUS Eddie Charlton25 January 1980WAL Doug Mountjoy0–1South Africa 1928 Perrie Mans15 February 1980ENG Graham Miles0–1AUS Eddie Charlton29 February 1980WAL Doug Mountjoy0–1AUS Eddie Charlton7 March 1980ENG Graham Miles93-18South Africa 1928 Perrie Mans21 March 1980 Knockout stage Semi-finals (28 March and 4 April 1980) Final (18 April 1980) 3rd place Play-off (11 April 1980) WAL Ray Reardon 1 WAL Doug Mountjoy 0 AUS Eddie Charlton 1 NIR Dennis Taylor 0 WAL Ray Reardon 1 AUS Eddie Charlton 2 WAL Doug Mountjoy 1 NIR Dennis Taylor 0 References Category:Pot Black Category:1980 in snooker Category:1980 in English sport