Three Cushion World Cup 1991/1

26th three-cushion world cup 1991/1
Casino Citadelpark, today the " Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst " (SMAK)
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	Casino Citadelpark, Ghent , Belgium
Opening:	October 30, 1991
Endgame:	November 2, 1991
Attendees:	28
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2nd finalist:	Sang Chun Lee
3rd place:	Richard Bitalis
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,758 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Best ED:	2,812 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Maximum series (HS):	15 Torbjörn Blomdahl000
Venue on the map
Ghent
← 1990/5	1991/2 →

The three- cushion world cup 1991/1 was the 1st world cup tournament in the sixth year of the three-cushion world cup. It took place from October 30th to November 2nd 1991 in this discipline of carom billiards in Ghent in East Flanders, Belgium. It was the first three cushion World Cup tournament in Ghent.

history

The Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl played an outstanding tournament and celebrated his eleventh World Cup victory. He achieved all tournament best performances and equaled two world records. The best individual average (BED) of 2.812 , set by the Japanese Nobuaki Kobayashi at the World Cup tournament in Antwerp in 1988 and as the second player, he was able to win a set in one shot. Kobayashi was the first to achieve this in 1986 in Valkenbueg, the Netherlands. The American Sang Chun Lee is also getting better and better . He achieved his first podium in Ghent.

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.

BWA professionals and host places

BWA professionals:

1. Raymond Ceulemans
2. Torbjörn Blomdahl
3. Ludo Dielis
4. Richard Bitalis
5. Marco Zanetti
6. Sang Chun Lee
7. Jun'ichi Komori
8. Dick Jaspers

Wildcards BWA:

1. Yoshihiko Mano
2. Christoph Pilss

Qualifying Spa:

1. Tonny Carlsen
2. Leon Smolders

Organizer spaces:

1. Kurt Ceulemans
2. Koen Ceulemans
3. Leslie Menheer
4. Mark Dellaert

mode

For the first time, the World Cup tournament was played as an open tournament. From a pre-qualification with 48 participants, 12 participants qualified for the 1/16 final and got 6 points for the world rankings. The main tournament was played with 28 participants. The first four of the world rankings were set for the second round. The whole tournament was played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each.

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.

1/16 finals

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1,800

Christian Rudolph

0 / 1,000

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.254

Leslie Menheer

2 / 0.814

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.351

Marco Zanetti

1 / 1.250

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.088

Nobuaki Kobayashi

1 / 0.772

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.769

Tatsuo Arai

1 / 1.640

Tatsuo Arai

3 / 1.097

Leon Smolders

0 / 0.789

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 2.812

Richard Bitalis

0 / 1,000

Jun'ichi Komori

3 / 1.018

Martin Spoormans

1 / 0.788

Jun'ichi Komori

3 / 1.477

Roland Forthomme

2 / 1.232

Roland Forthomme

3 / 1,500

Yoshihiko Mano

1 / 1,000

Jun'ichi Komori

1 / 1.925

Richard Bitalis

3 / 1.714

Richard Bitalis

3 / 1.309

Jan Arnouts

2 / 1.142

Jan Arnouts

3 / 1.153

Koen Ceulemans

0 / 0.648

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.684

Sang Chun Lee

2 / 1.108

Ludo Dielis

3 / 1.175

Jorge Theriaga

2 / 0.980

Christoph Pilss

0 / 0.871

Jorge Theriaga

3 / 1.097

Ludo Dielis

3 / 1.395

Frédéric Caudron

2 / 1.232

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.730

Mark Dellaert

0 / 0.560

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.451

Louis Havermans

0 / 0.931

Tonny Carlsen

1 / 0.803

Louis Havermans

3 / 0.894

Ludo Dielis

0 / 1.590

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.875

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.250

Eddy Merckx

1 / 1.186

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.611

Henk Habraken

1 / 1.371

Henk Habraken

3 / 1.451

Kurt Ceulemans

0 / 1.064

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.827

Dick Jaspers

1 / 1.107

Raymond Ceulemans

2 / 1.351

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.810

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.285

Freddy Verelst

0 / 0.941

3rd place match

	3rd place match
	Richard Bitalis		3 / 1.187
	Ludo Dielis		1 / 1,000

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED BSD HS WRP final 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl 8-0 12: 3 204 116 1.758 2.812 15,000 15th 60 2 Sang Chun Lee 8: 2 14: 6 252 170 1.482 1,827 3,750 12 45 Semi- finals 3 Richard Bitalis 6: 2 9: 7 175 133 1,315 1.714 2,500 7th 30th 4th Ludo Dielis 4: 4 7:10 203 164 1,237 1.395 2.142 8th 24 quarter- final 5 Marco Zanetti 4: 2 7: 5 140 107 1.308 1,769 3,750 8th 21st 6th Dick Jaspers 4: 2 7: 5 143 100 1.430 1,810 2.142 7th 18th 7th Jun'ichi Komori 4: 2 7: 6 171 124 1,379 1.477 3,000 8th 15th 8th Frédéric Caudron 4: 2 8: 3 143 100 1.430 1.730 3,750 8th 12 9 Henk Habraken 2: 2 4: 3 93 66 1.409 1.451 1,875 6th 6th 10 Roland Forthomme 2: 2 5: 4 107 79 1.354 1,500 3,000 7th 6th 11 Raymond Ceulemans 0: 2 2: 3 50 37 1.351 --- 2,500 5 - 12 Tatsuo Arai 2: 2 4: 3 86 66 1.303 1.097 3,000 9 6th 13 Eddy Merckx 0: 2 1: 3 51 43 1.186 --- 1,500 5 6th 14th Christian Rudolph 2: 2 3: 5 93 79 1.177 1.254 1.666 7th 6th 15th Jan Arnouts 2: 2 5: 3 93 81 1.148 1.153 1.666 6th 6th 16 Jorge Theriaga 2: 2 5: 3 95 92 1.032 1.097 3,750 8th 6th 17th Yoshihiko Mano 0: 2 1: 3 35 35 1,000 --- 1.666 9 - 18th Freddy Verelst 0: 2 0: 3 32 34 0.941 --- --- 11 6th 19th Louis Havermans 2: 2 3: 4 78 86 0.906 --- 5,000 9 6th 20th Christoph Pilss 0: 2 0: 3 34 39 0.871 --- --- 4th - 21st Leslie Menheer 0: 2 2: 3 44 54 0.814 --- 1.153 4th - 22nd Tonny Carlsen 0: 2 1: 3 45 56 0.803 --- 0.882 4th - 23 Kurt Ceulemans 0: 2 0: 3 23 29 0.793 --- --- 4th - 24 Leon Smolders 0: 2 0: 3 30th 38 0.789 --- --- 4th - 25th Martin Spoormans 0: 2 1: 3 41 52 0.788 --- 0.882 5 6th 26th Nobuaki Kobayashi 0: 2 1: 3 34 44 0.772 --- 2,500 7th 6th 27 Koen Ceulemans 0: 2 0: 3 24 37 0.648 --- --- 5 - 28 Mark Dellaert 0: 2 0: 3 14th 25th 0.560 --- --- 3 -

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. ^ Heinrich Weingartner: Billiards . No. 41 . Vienna January 1992, p. 31-34 .