European three-cushion championship 1981

39th European three-cushion championship in 1981
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Vienna City Hall, Vienna
Opening:	March 18, 1981
Endgame:	March 22, 1981
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Raymond Steylaerts
3rd place:	Piet de Jong
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,382 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,068 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	11 Raymond Ceulemans10
Venue on the map
Vienna
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The three-cushion European championship in 1981 was the 39th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from March 18 to 22, 1981 in Vienna . It was the second three-band European Championship in Vienna after 1965. The Austrian association organized the championship on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

history

As more and more associations register for the European championships, a new system with 16 participants was played. So with four participants you could save a day more. The performances at this championship were not very good. It was probably due to the spotlights that Austrian television had set up for the live broadcasts. It was extremely hot at the tables and the gang tee was unusual. The only one who obviously had no problems with that was Raymond Ceulemans . Once again unbeaten with all tournament best performances, he secured the title. The Egidio Vierat in ninth place with the second best general average (GD) showed the problem. Perhaps the pressure was also very high because you had to get into the top three to move into the final round. So many games were played very defensively so as not to lose. The German champion Günter Siebert was on the verge of a surprise in his preliminary round game against Ceulemans. At 55:55, the Belgian ended the game. The local hero and co-favorite Johann Scherz was very disappointed with his performance with 0.806 GD. He has not played in a tournament as badly as in this championship since 1957. For the first time, the 20-year-old Luxembourgish, later multiple world and European champion, Fonsy Grethen took part in a three-cushion European Championship.

mode

The game was played in two preliminary round groups “everyone against everyone” to 60 points with an equal number of additional points . The groups consisted of eight players each. The last two in the group were eliminated. The game points from the preliminary round were taken into the final round of the best six (three per group). Seventh, nine and eleven places were played out.

Preliminary groups

Final table preliminary round group A space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 14: 0 420 322 1.304 1,875 8th 2 Raymond Steylaerts 9: 5 396 508 0.779 0.967 6th 3 Eddy van de Looy 8: 6 376 469 0.801 0.983 8th 4th Günter Siebert 8: 6 384 503 0.763 0.895 7th 5 Marco Machado 7: 7 404 542 0.745 1.016 9 6th Danny Korte 6: 8 373 521 0.715 0.800 8th 7th Wolfgang Anreitter 3:11 336 499 0.673 0.821 10 8th Willy Junod 1:13 285 492 0.579 0.521 5 Group average : 0.771 Final table preliminary round group B space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Mats Noren 11: 3 408 474 0.860 0.937 10 2 Piet de Jong 10: 4 392 526 0.745 1.034 9 3 Daniel Bruggheman 9: 5 386 479 0.805 1.153 7th 4th Johann Scherz 8: 6 389 476 0.817 0.967 7th 5 Egidio Vierat 7: 7 390 455 0.857 1.463 10 6th José squeezed glass 6: 8 371 478 0.776 1.052 7th 7th Antonio Oddo 3:11 351 508 0.690 0.857 8th 8th Fonsy Grethen 2:12 319 524 0.608 0.769 6th Group average : 0.766

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 .)

Closing table

Final ranking space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 20: 0 600 434 1,382 2.068 11 2 Raymond Steylaerts 15: 5 576 712 0.808 0.967 6th 3 Piet de Jong 12: 8 534 690 0.773 1.034 9 4th Eddy van de Looy 11: 9 550 673 0.817 1,200 8th 5 Daniel Bruggheman 10:10 509 669 0.760 1.153 8th 6th Mats Noren 11: 9 550 640 0.859 0.937 10 7th Johann Scherz 10: 6 (2: 0) 449 (60) 557 (81) 0.806 (0.740) 0.967 (0.740) 7th 8th Günter Siebert 8: 8 (0: 2) 442 (58) 584 (81) 0.756 (0.716) 0.895 (---) 7th 9 Egidio Vierat 9: 7 (2: 0) 450 (60) 519 (64) 0.867 (0.937) 1.463 (0.937) 10 10 Mario Machado 7: 9 (0: 2) 449 (45) 606 (64) 0.740 (0.703) 1.016 (---) 9 11 Danny Korte 8: 8 (2: 0) 433 (60) 586 (65) 0.738 (0.923) 0.923 (0.923) 8th 12 José squeezed glass 6:10 (0: 2) 430 (59) 543 (65) 0.791 (0.907) 1.052 (---) 7th 13 Antonio Oddo 3:11 351 508 0.690 0.857 8th 14th Wolfgang Anreitter 3:11 336 499 0.673 0.821 10 15th Fonsy Grethen 2:12 319 524 0.608 0.769 6th 16 Willy Junod 1:13 285 492 0.579 0.521 5 Tournament average: 0.786

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 .)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans H. Graßmann: Billard-Zeitung . 59th year, no. 4 . Düren April 1981, p. 8-10 .