The last three-cushion World Cup tournament of the year took place in the casino in the South Dutch city of Valkenburg and was the most spectacular. The excellently playing Japanese ex-world champion Nobuaki Kobayashi dominated the tournament and set all tournament records. As the first three-cushion player on an international level, he played a set in one recording against his compatriot Jun'ichi Komori . He also played an excellent general average with 1.643. So far only the multiple Belgian series world champion Raymond Ceulemans has played in these dimensions . For the third time in this World Cup season the final was called “Ceulemans versus Kobayashi”, of which Kobayashi won two.
Overall winner of the year was Raymond Ceulemans, who was in all four finals. In the final round he won with 68 points ahead of Kobayashi (55 points) and Komori (45 points).
The excellent tournament organization of the organizer was praised by all participants and officials. The tournament was very well attended with 2000 spectators and was broadcast nationwide in the media.
The tournament was played with 16 participants. The whole tournament was played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each.
The first four of the world rankings (in this case Raymond Ceulemans, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Ludo Dielis and Rini van Bracht) were seeded for the round of 16.
If a set was completed by player one at 15 points, player two had no follow-up kick .
Final round
The tournament tree for the final round is listed below. Legend: SP / Pkt. / Aufn / ED
(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
^ Heinrich Weingartner: Carambol . No.222 . Vienna August 1987, p.38 .
↑ Dr. Werner Bayer, Heinrich Weingartner , Klaus Bosel, Dr. Marco Zanetti : The Blue Square, The Blue Square - Fascination Billiards . Ed .: Dr. Werner Bayer Foundation. 2004, ISBN 4-520-93460-5 , pp.87-105 .
The three-cushion World Cup was organized by the founding association, the " Billiards Worldcup Association " (BWA) until 1998 . Disputes between the BWA and the world association Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) led to parallel tournaments between 1994 and 1997. The UMB / BWA organized the tournament together until the beginning of 1999. Since the dissolution of the BWA in 1999, the UMB has been the sole organizer. From 1988-1991 the UMB did not host any world championships. During this time, the annual overall winner of the World Cup was crowned world champion.