German three-cushion championship 1976/77

43rd German three-cushion championship 1976/77
The winner: Günter Siebert
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	DBB / North German Association
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Hamburg
Opening:	December 9, 1976
Endgame:	December 12, 1976
Attendees:	16
Defending champion:	Dieter Müller
Winner:	Günter Siebert
2nd finalist:	Jürgen Sedello
3rd place:	Dieter Haring
Prize money:	Amateur tournament
Records
Best GD:	0.814 Günter Siebert
Best ED:	1.304 Günter Siebert
Maximum series (HS):	11 Günter Siebert Peter Kuhring 00 0000
Venue on the map
Hamburg
← 1975/76	1977/78 →

The German Three Cushion Championship 1976/77 (DDM) was the 43rd edition of this tournament series and took place from December 9th to 12th, 1976 in Hamburg .

history

Because of planning errors in the previous history, the championship was rescheduled and given to Hamburg at short notice. The requirements of the DBB were to play a certain number of players on the three (rolling) tables of the DBB in four days. Since the number of games was incorrect, rescheduling had to be carried out at short notice, and a solution to the planning errors was only found an hour before the start of the tournament.

mode

The players were divided into four groups of four players each (GR). The game system was changed again from the previous year, away from the set system and back to the distance game on 60 points, everyone against everyone. The group winners and the two best on average made it to the final round, also everyone against everyone, without a separate final or game for third place. The final placement was based on the match points (MP). The entire tournament was played with a push .

Grouping

After the initial class, the following group divisions resulted:

Grouping

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Dieter Haring	Günter Siebert	Joseph stooping	Hans-Jürgen Kühl
Gert Tiedtke	Peter Kuhring	Peter Sporer	Jürgen Sedello
Dieter Müller	Hans Ehl	Rolf Goering	Wolfgang Geukes
Richard Biener	Hans Kessler	Udo Kleine-Weischede	Siegfried Spielmann

Tournament course

Preliminary round

Group A

In the first group, the defending champion Dieter Müller from Berlin had difficulties against Richard Biener from Munich, played a draw against Gert Tiedtke and finally lost against his club mate Dieter Häring (German champion from 1970) with 38:60. He was eliminated in the preliminary round and could not qualify for the three-cushion European championship in 1977 in Lausanne . Haring emerged as group winner. Tiedke finished second, but could not take part in the final round because of the poorer average.

Final group A # Surname MP GD ED HS 1 Dieter Haring 4th 0.750 0.810 6th 2 Gert Tiedtke 3 0.715 0.750 7th 3 Dieter Müller 3 0.711 0.895 6th 4th Richard Biener 2 0.688 0.714 8th

Legend MP Match points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0) SV Set ratio (only for tournaments in the set system) Pts. Achieved collisions Recording required recordings GD General average BED Best individual average by a player HS Maximum series

Group B

Günter Siebert from Hattingen played confidently and won all matches. Berlin's Peter Kuhring set the tournament's highest series of 11 with an individual average (ED) of 0.909 and came in second. Due to the weaker general average (GD), however, this was not sufficient for participation in the final round. Without a win and with little experience in the tournament, Hans Kessler from Saarland took last place.

Final score group B # Surname MP GD ED HS 1 Günter Siebert 6th 0.786 0.983 5 2 Peter Kuhring 3 0.718 0.909 11 3 Hans Ehl 3 0.706 0.789 5 4th Hans Kessler 0 0.550 - 6th

Legend MP Match points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0) SV Set ratio (only for tournaments in the set system) Pts. Achieved collisions Recording required recordings GD General average BED Best individual average by a player HS Maximum series

Group C

Group favorite Joseph Bücken entered the final round without losing a match. Peter Sporer was able to take two matches with him and made it to the finals with the best average as second in the group. Göring and Kleine-Weischede were eliminated.

Final score group C # Surname MP GD ED HS 1 Joseph stooping 6th 0.895 1.034 8th 2 Peter Sporer 4th 0.770 0.779 8th 3 Rolf Goering 2 0.633 0.674 5 4th U. Kleine-Weischede 0 0.568 - 5

Legend MP Match points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0) SV Set ratio (only for tournaments in the set system) Pts. Achieved collisions Recording required recordings GD General average BED Best individual average by a player HS Maximum series

Group D

Hans-Jürgen Kühl won all matches and reached the final. The championship newcomer Jürgen Sedello from Bochum came into the final round in second place with the second best average. Spielmann could not find his way into his games, lost all matches and was eliminated together with Geukes.

Final score group D # Surname MP GD ED HS 1 Hans-Jürgen Kühl 6th 0.782 0.869 8th 2 Jürgen Sedello 4th 0.741 0.770 5 3 Wolfgang Geukes 2 0.629 0.722 4th 4th Siegfried Spielmann 0 0.700 - 5

Legend MP Match points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0) SV Set ratio (only for tournaments in the set system) Pts. Achieved collisions Recording required recordings GD General average BED Best individual average by a player HS Maximum series

Final round

After three of five rounds it became clear that either Joseph Bücken or Günter Siebert could become German champions, as the averages dropped and the competitors took each other's points.

Tension came into the final when Bücken lost to Häring and Siebert lost to Kühl and places 1–5 had not yet been clearly played out. Until then, Peter Sporer was in last place without a victory point.

With 60:31 in 46 shots Siebert finally secured the championship title in the best match of the tournament, in which he also set Peter Kuhring's series record at 11. He was guaranteed to participate in the EM next January.

The 60:50 victory of Sedello against Kühl was also surprising. Sedello was the first runner-up, with Dieter Häring taking third place.

Closing table

The results of the final round participants only show the results of the final round in the match points and the overall average, the results of the preliminary round were not included in the evaluation for places 1–6.

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
round	space	Surname	MP	GD	BED	HS
Final round	1	Günter Siebert	8th	0.814	1.304	11
	2	Jürgen Sedello	6th	0.786	0.895	9
	3	Dieter Haring	6th	0.694	0.810	6th
	4th	Joseph stooping	6th	0.690	1.034	8th
	5	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	4th	0.709	0.895	8th
	6th	Peter Sporer	0	0.625	0.779	8th
Groups round	7th	Peter Kuhring	3	0.718	0.909	11
	8th	Gert Tiedtke	3	0.715	0.750	7th
	9	Dieter Müller	3	0.711	0.895	6th
	10	Hans Ehl	3	0.706	0.789	5
	11	Rolf Goering	2	0.633	0.674	5
	12	Wolfgang Geukes	2	0.629	0.722	4th
	13	Richard Biener	2	0.688	0.714	8th
	14th	Siegfried Spielmann	0	0.700	-	5
	15th	Udo Kleine-Weischede	0	0.568	-	5
	16	Hans Kessler	0	0.550	-	6th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Detlef Holst: Siebert had the best nerves . Brilliant achievement at the end, Müller out early. In: Deutscher Billard Bund (Hrsg.): Billard-Zeitung . tape 55 , no. 1 . Self-published, Cologne 1977, p. 8-10 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 946 .