The three- cushion world cup 1988/6 was the 6th world cup tournament in the third year of the three- cushion world cup. It took place from December 29 to 30, 1988 in this discipline of carom billiards in the ballroom of the Pacific Hotel in Tokyo . It was the first three-cushion World Cup tournament outside of Europe.
For the first time in the history of three-cushion world championships, the world champion was played in a tournament series of six three-cushion world cups. The Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl secured the title with four wins . After 1987 in Cairo, it was his second world champion title. To top it off , he set a new world record in the general average (GD) with 1,947 . He also achieved all other tournament bests in Tokyo. Only in the final against the unseeded Japanese Akio Shimada did he lose the first and thus only set with 7:15 after a 7-1 lead. At the first World Cup tournament in Japan, the organizer was certified by all sides as having a very good orientation. They managed to hold the tournament in two days.
The exact price money could not be determined from the documents. However, as in all BWA World Cup tournaments, it was at least 100,000 DM.
The tournament was played with 16 participants. The whole tournament was played in the KO system with three sets of 15 points each.
The first four of the world rankings (in this case Torbjörn Blomdahl, Jun'ichi Komori, Raymond Ceulemans and Nobuaki Kobayashi) were seeded for the second round.
If a set was completed at 15 points by player one, player two had no follow-up kick.
Final round
The tournament tree for the final round is listed below. Legend: SP / Pkte / Aufn / ED / HS
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.