1980 Pot Black

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.

1980 Pot Black
Tournament information
DatesRecorded late December 1979 (broadcast 4 January – 18 April 1980)
VenuePebble Mill Studios
CityBirmingham
CountryEngland
FormatNon-ranking event
Winner's share£2000
Highest break Dennis Taylor (87)
Final
Champion Eddie Charlton
Runner-up Ray Reardon
Score2–1
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Broadcast on BBC2, the programmes started at 21:00 on Friday 4 January 1980.[1] 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.[2][3]

Main draw

Group 1
Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Ray Reardon1–0 Terry Griffiths4 January 1980
John Spencer0–1 Dennis Taylor18 January 1980
Ray Reardon1–0 John Spencer1 February 1980
Terry Griffiths0–1 Dennis Taylor22 February 1980
Terry Griffiths0–1 John Spencer29 February 1980
Ray Reardon0–1 Dennis Taylor14 March 1980

Group 2
Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Doug Mountjoy0–1 Graham Miles11 January 1980
Perrie Mans0–1 Eddie Charlton25 January 1980
Doug Mountjoy1–0 Perrie Mans15 February 1980
Graham Miles0–1 Eddie Charlton29 February 1980
Doug Mountjoy1–0 Eddie Charlton7 March 1980
Graham Miles1–0 Perrie Mans21 March 1980

Knockout stage
  Semi-finals (28 March and 4 April 1980)     Final (18 April 1980)
                 
  Ray Reardon 1  
  Doug Mountjoy 0    
      Ray Reardon 1
      Eddie Charlton 2
  Eddie Charlton 1    
  Dennis Taylor 0   3rd place Play-off (11 April 1980)
 
Doug Mountjoy 1
  Dennis Taylor 0

References
  1. "BBC Television – 4 January 1980 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. "BBC Television – 18 April 1980 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. "CueTracker - 1980 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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