Three-cushion European championship for national teams

Three-cushion European championship for national teams
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	European Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Association / host:	CEB + national association
Tournament details
Venue:	s. map
Playing time:	since 1987
Current title holder:	Spain
Records
Most wins: 4
Netherlands
Best GD:?
Best ED:?
Maximum series (HS):?
Position map
Copenhagen Barcelona Lisbon Dordrecht Ankara Brandenburg on the Havel Antalya Dinard Challans Rezé Bouguenais Saint-Brevin-les-Pins Small map: France, Loire-Atlantique department

The three-cushion European championship for national teams was held for the first time in 1985 in the three- cushion carom variant .

history

It is organized by the European carom billiards association CEB ( Confédération Européenne de Billard ). Until 2007 it was held at irregular intervals.

mode

As in the Team World Cup , teams of two players are played. From 1985 to 1989 the game was played at a distance of 30 points. From 1991 to 2012 the game was played on two sets of 15 points each, from 2007 onwards the game was increased to three sets of wins from the quarterfinals onwards. Since 2013, the group phase has been played up to 30 points and from the knockout round to 40 points. From the final round we played in Scotch Doubles . The whole tournament is played with a push . In the event of a tie in the knockout round, a penalty shootout will be decided.

Ranking list

The ranking is based on the minus system, as in the Team World Cup until 2017. The ranking (1–24) corresponds to the points to be awarded. The better the ranking, the fewer negative points are written to the team. Teams that are not registered receive 25 penalty points, teams that have not entered receive 50 penalty points ( see ranking ). The last eight tournaments are counted.

Ranking list places 1–10

rank	nation	2008 (place)	2009 (place)	2010 (place)	2011 (place)	2013 (place)	2015 (place)	2017 (place)	2019 (place)	∑	Previous year
1	Belgium	2	5	1	2	2	2	5	1	20th	?
2	Netherlands	5	2	3	10	1	1	2	6th	30th	?
3	Turkey	3	1	5	3	6th	5	1	7th	31	?
4th	Spain	1	3	5	5	5	9	13	2	43	?
5	Germany	5	11	5	8th	8th	3	10	3	53	?
6th	France	9	3	15th	1	12	7th	6th	5	58	?
7th	Denmark	5	5	2	6th	21st	14th	3	3	59	?
8th	Austria	3	5	9	3	22nd	11	11	19th	83	?
9	Greece	12	9	25th	25th	3	15th	3	11	103	?
10	Sweden	14th	17th	14th	14th	18th	17th	15th	16	125	?

Not registered for the tournament at all (−25 points)

Registered but not participated (−50 points)

Prize money

space	Prize money
1	(1 ×) 4,000
2	(1 ×) 2,500
3	(2 ×) 1,200
5-8	(4 ×) 600
∑	11,300

Tournament statistics

The GD indicates the general average of the respective team during the tournament.

year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	3rd place (from 2007 semi-finalists)	GD
1985	Copenhagen	L. Blomdahl / T. Blomdahl	1.242	Ceulemans / Dielis	1.565	van Bracht / van de Looy	1.069
1987	Barcelona	L. Blomdahl / T. Blomdahl	1.008	Quetglas / Nadal	0.987	Stroobants / Devreese	0.830
1989	Lisbon	Jaspers / van Bracht	1.036	Carlsen / Korte	0.987	Stroobants / Mens	0.830
1991	Rezé	L. Blomdahl / T. Blomdahl	???	Carlsen / Dear child	???	Connesson / Tachnakian	???
1992	Dordrecht	Jaspers / Havermans	1,380	T. Blomdahl / Nilsson	1.472	Weijenburg / Habraken	1,199
2007	Rezé / Bouguenais	Carlsen / Nelin	1.514	Kasidokostas / Polychronopoulos	1.415	Yüksel / Coklu	1,590
						Leppens / Forton	1.334
2008	Challans	Legazpi / Palazon	1.419	Merckx / Forthomme	1.346	Efler / Kronlachner	1.088
						Çenet / Yasin	1.190
2009	Dinard	Taşdemir / Çenet	1.357	Jaspers / de Bruijn	1.528	Bury / Roux	1.241
						Legazpi / Palazon	1.567
2010	Ankara	Merckx / Leppens	1.529	Hansen / Nelin	1.469	Jaspers / de Bruijn	1.223
						Sciacca / Papa	0.975
2011	Saint-Brevin	Bury / Barbeillon	1,595	Merckx / Leppens	1,833	Taşdemir / Çenet	2.008
						Efler / Szivacz	1.304
2013	Brandenburg on the Havel	Jaspers / Burgman	1,982	B Merckx / Caudron	1,770	Kasidokostas / Polychronopoulos	1,836
						A Forthomme / Leppens	1.395
2015	Brandenburg on the Havel	Jaspers / Burgman	1,880	Caudron / Forthomme	1.858	Taşdemir / Yüksel	1.511
						Horn / C. Rudolph	1.163
2017	Brandenburg on the Havel	Çapak / Taşdemir	1,869	Jaspers / Burgman	1.467	Polychronopoulos / Kokkoris	1.666
						Carlsen / Schröder	1,100
2019	Brandenburg on the Havel	Caudron / Merckx	1.904	Sánchez / Legazpi	1,836	Horn / Lindemann	1,314
						Andersen / Nelin	1.322
2020	Antalya	Sánchez / Legazpi	1.983	Saygıner / Çoklu	1.688	Bury / Marechal	1.441
						Nelin / Haack-Sørensen	1.420
2021		/		/		/
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Web links

• Ranking list 2019 ( Memento from January 19, 2020 in the Internet Archive )

See also

• European three-cushion championship
• Women's three-cushion European championship

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rules 2019. (PDF) Confédération Européenne de Billard (CEB), 2019, archived from the original on January 19, 2020 ; accessed on January 19, 2020 (English).  
2. ↑ Prize money. (PDF) CEB, 2019, archived from the original on January 19, 2020 ; accessed on January 19, 2020 (English).