Closing Ceremony (Las Vegas World Cup 3-Cushion 2023)

The ceremony of closing the event, including giving the prizes to the finalists, if you want to wait, look. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ira Lee, and I welcome everyone to the Closing Ceremony Awards of the 2023 UMD Las Vegas RollerCop 3 version, presented by Predator. First, I'd like to invite the final players to come into the arena. It is my honor and privilege to introduce the distinguished dignitaries who will be presenting the award to the tournament's winners this evening. Let us extend a warm welcome to them as I announce them and invite each of them to come to the Champions Arena now. Representing the United States, Billiard Association, Charles Brown. The President of the CPD, Carlos Rivera. The President of the Predator Crew, Karim Balaj. And the President of the UMD, Farouk Arman. To begin, our esteemed representative of the United States Billiards Association for decades, Charles Brown, and the President of the CPD, Carlos Rivera, shall present the awards for our third-place finishers. I present to you, Kim Juntae and Marco Zanetti. And now we invite the President of the Predator Crew, Karim Balaj, to officially present the second-place trophy to the runner-up of our event. Thank you. Now, the President of the UMD, Farouk Arman, shall present the first-place trophy and championship title to the champion of the 2023 UMD Las Vegas World Cup Pre-Russian from Turkey, Tayfun Kazimir. Please stand for the National Anthem of Turkey. I'm sure I speak for thousands of enthusiastic and appreciative Pre-Russian and Cairo Billiard fans all over America in thanking the individuals and organizations such as QSports International that have worked tirelessly over the last year to make such a prestigious UMD tournament become a reality. I want to make special thanks to the UMD referees that worked hard all week to make this very special event. We will now have a few words from one of the most respected visionaries of our wonderful sport of billiards, the President of the Predator Crew, Karim Balaj. Hey everybody, thank you very much. So I'm here as, I guess, as the host of the tournament alongside CSI. I want to thank you all for the energy you bring here and creating this opportunity that's fantastic to introduce Pre-Russian to a lot of pool players here. In this building we were 7,500 QSports fans. That is awesome. A lot of the pool players came to the booth but the other side said, oh wow, this game is beautiful, it's different, it's so hard. But we want to learn it because it's going to make them better at pool. So the potential of Pre-Russian is formidable and I hope to see you again here next year. In the meantime, I want to thank the athletes. We did an amazing job coming from Turkey, Korea, Italy, all around the world. And the UMD, USBA, CPP for trusting us with EMA. Thank you very much. Finally, a word from the president of the UMD, esteemed Farouk Arki, who will officially close our tournament event. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm in Iraq and I didn't have that much for me to say. I thank you all, especially the fans in the United States. We are very happy to be back here after so many years. Thank you very much for your attendance. Thank you. Of course, I want to thank CPP, our confederate member, for giving us the opportunity to come back here to the USA. Thank you. USBA, thanks to all the persons of USBA. Thank you Charles. Thank you very much. Finally, Karim, we thank you very much for organizing this beautiful event. And we hope to see you again. Thank you. Thanks for the organizers. Everybody who contributed his time to make this event happen. Thanks for the sponsors who helped him. This tournament would not take place. Thanks for the referees. Thanks for our great players. Thank you very, very, very much. Day after day, you are showing us the highest and the best level of Karim Srikosyan. Special thanks for Kaifun Paltemir. Congratulations Kaifun. Let's play this World Cup after your championship. World Champion. Congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Union Montpellier, I declare Las Vegas World Cup 2023 officially closed. And I invite all players and officials to participate in the next event, World Championship, three-quarter national teams, which will take place 9th to 12th April, March, in Fiesel, Germany. Thank you. Finally, please rise at the United States National Anthem. Thank you everybody for coming. Welcome to the Union Montpellier. Thank you for being so involved. And welcome back again for the next edition.