German three-cushion championship 1970/71

37th German three-cushion championship 1970/71
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	DBB
Tournament details
Venue:	Sports hall center Schürenkamp, Gelsenkirchen
Opening:	December 10, 1970
Endgame:	December 12, 1970
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	August Tiedtke
Winner:	Hans-Dietrich Runkehl
2nd finalist:	August Tiedtke
3rd place:	Joseph stooping
Prize money:	Amateur tournament
Records
Best GD:	0.937 August Tiedtke
Best ED:	1.538 August Tiedtke
Maximum series (HS):	8000 • Hans-Dietrich Runkehl 0000• August Tiedtke 0000 • Dieter Müller 0000 • Dieter Häring
Venue on the map
Gelsenkirchen
← 1969/70	1971/72 →

The German Three Cushion Championship 1970/71 (DDM) was the 37th edition of this tournament series and took place from December 10th to 12th, 1970 in Gelsenkirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Tournament commentary

The Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid billiard district acted as the host, and a sports hall acted as the venue for the first time. The choice fell on the Gelsenkirchen sports hall center Schürenkamp. It served the organizer as a test run for the European Championship taking place in the 1971/72 season and was rated as successful and very satisfactory by both the players and the visitors.

As in previous years, there was again a field of 10 players who competed in two groups. The bottom of the group were eliminated and had to watch the main round from the bench. Again it hit Gert Tiedtke , who as an art pusher still did not feel at home in the three cushion, unlike his older brother August. However, this time the 20-time gold madaillen winner had to admit defeat to Erich Heinrichs from Cologne and thus awarded the championship title. Nevertheless, it caused a surprise. In the second round of the group stage, he beat Josef Janzen with 60:24 in just 39 shots, setting a new German average. He screwed this up from the old mark of 1.428 to the new high of 1.538. At the same time, he surpassed his own 29-year-old DDM record from 1941 (1.315). In the end, the record champions, who won 20 gold medals in 35 years, only got the silver medal. This was also his last participation in the DDM. In the summer of 1972, the exceptional player died of cancer at the age of only 59.

mode

It played "everyone against everyone" ( round robin mode ) to 60 points with a push . In the qualifying round, the game was played in two groups of five players each. The best eight players made it to the finals. All games were included in the final ranking.

Closing table

Legend
Abbr.	meaning
Pt.	points scored
Recording	required recordings
ED	Single average
GD	General average
VGD	Relative general average
BMD	Best team average
BED	Best individual average
BSD	Best sentence average
BEVD	Best Individual Relative Average
HS	Maximum series
MP	Match points
PP	Lot of points
GUV	G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren
SV	Sentence ratio
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)
	Best GD of the tournament / round
	Best VGD of the tournament / round
	Best ED of the tournament / round
	Best BVGD of the tournament / round
	Best HS of the tournament / round
(It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

Final ranking
space	Surname	MP	GD	BED	HS
1	Hans-Dietrich Runkehl	14: 2	0.697	1.071	8th
2	August Tiedtke	12: 4	0.937	1.538	8th
3	Joseph stooping	12: 4	0.703	1,000	6th
4th	Ernst Rudolph	9: 7	0.746	1.111	7th
5	Dieter Müller	8: 8	0.720	0.789	8th
6th	Siegfried Spielmann	6:10	0.729	0.869	6th
7th	Erich Heinrichs	4:12	0.658	0.952	7th
8th	Dieter Haring	3:13	0.586	0.697	8th
9	Gert Tiedtke	2: 6	0.579	0.697	7th
10	Josef Janzen	2: 6	0.577	0.674	4th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Schuco: Deutsche Billard Zeitung . Ed .: Deutscher Billard Bund. 1st edition. Höntges & Sons, Krefeld, Cologne January 1971, p. 1 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 927 .