Three Cushion World Cup 1996/8

65th three-cushion world cup 1996/8
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	Hotel Polat Renaissance, Istanbul , Turkey
Opening:	December 19, 1996
Endgame:	December 22, 1996
Attendees:	91
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2nd finalist:	Tonny Carlsen
3rd place:	Dick Jaspers
Records
Best GD:	1.651 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Best ED:	2,250 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Maximum series (HS):	12 Torbjörn Blomdahl000
Venue on the map
Istanbul Venue
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The three- cushion world cup 1996/8 was the fourth BWA world cup tournament in the eleventh year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from December 19 to 22, 1996 in this discipline of carom billiards in Istanbul . It was the fifth three-cushion World Cup tournament in Turkey.

history

The final world cup tournament of the BWA in Istanbul started with a shock for the many Turkish spectators. National billiard hero Semih Saygıner lost in the first round against the young Greek Nikos Polychronopoulos, who was completely unknown in the World Cup, with 0: 3 sets. After qualifying with 91 participants, including an extremely large number of Turks, only one Turkish player, Fehmi Erdurmaz, made it to the round of 16. Torbjörn Blomdahl dominated the rest of the tournament . He only had to fight in his first game against the Dutchman Henk Habraken. After 1: 2 set deficit, he won sets four and five with 15: 2 and 15: 9 in four recordings each. In the further course of the tournament only the Dane Tonny Carlsen was able to win the first set in the final when he lost. In the 65th World Cup tournament, Blomdahl was able to clinch his 22nd victory and in the eleventh year of the World Cup achieved his sixth overall World Cup victory. With 204 points he was clearly ahead of Dick Jaspers with 121 and Marco Zanetti with 99 points.

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

Set BWA professionals:

1. Torbjörn Blomdahl
2. Raymond Ceulemans
3. Dick Jaspers
4. Marco Zanetti

according to world ranking:

1. 10 participants

Wildcards international:

1. 2 participants

Wildcards national:

1. 2 participants

mode

The World Cup tournament was played as an open tournament again. From a pre-qualification with a maximum of 124 participants, ten participants qualify for the 1/16 finals. The main tournament is played with 28 participants. The first four of the world rankings are set for the round of 16. In future, 20 participants are set. The participants are recruited from the 14 best players in the world rankings (as of September 1st of the current year) as well as two national and international wildcards. The whole tournament, with the exception of the small final, is played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each. (Press release by BWA.Ghent, January 8, 1994.)

From this year onwards, there was no qualifying tournament in Spa.

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 / 1.916

Henk Habraken

2 / 1.371

Yorgos Sakkas

1 / 0.847

Henk Habraken

3 / 1.191

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.551

Sang Chun Lee

0 / 1.107

Nikos Tremoulis

0 / 0.682

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.071

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.243

Aria Weyenburg

1 / 1,200

Ahmet Özgunay

1 / 0.690

Aria Weyenburg

3 / 1.302

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 2.250

Dick Jaspers

0 / 1.388

Louis Havermans

3 / 1.044

Bahadir Beyazbulut

1 / 0.840

Louis Havermans

3 / 2.033

Raimond Burgman

2 / 1.620

Raimond Burgman

3 / 1,200

Park Seung-hee

2 / 1.222

Louis Havermans

1 / 1.029

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.685

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.261

Junichi Komori

1 / 0.975

Junichi Komori

3 / 1.159

Gerhard Kostistansky

1 / 0.953

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.227

Tonny Carlsen

1 / 1.093

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.607

Frédéric Caudron

0 / 1.307

Bora Karatay

0 / 0.638

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 0.937

Marco Zanetti

2 / 1.575

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1.575

Nikos Polychronopoulos

3 / 1.071

Semih Saygıner

0 / 0.850

Nikos Polychronopoulos

1 / 0.884

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1.018

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1,500

Murat Tüzül

0 / 0.785

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1.386

Raymond Ceulemans

2 / 1.068

Fehmi Erdurmaz

3 / 0.982

Kurt Ceulemans

1 / 0.947

Fehmi Erdurmaz

0 / 0.512

Bum Heo-moon

3 / 1.125

Bum Heo-moon

3 / 1.046

Hasan Pamuk

2 / 0.936

Bum Heo-moon

2 / 0.862

Raymond Ceulemans

3 / 1.211

Raymond Ceulemans

3 / 1.730

Norbert Ohagen

1 / 1.034

Norbert Ohagen

3 / 1.041

Rupen Boyaci

1 / 0.851

3rd place match

	3rd place match
	Dick Jaspers		2 / 2.142
	Raymond Ceulemans		0 / 1.461

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED BSD HS WRP final 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl 8-0 12: 3 213 129 1.651 2.250 3,750 12 90 2 Tonny Carlsen 8: 2 13: 8 270 210 1.285 1.575 3,750 9 67 Semi- finals 3 Dick Jaspers 6: 2 8: 5 167 109 1.532 2.142 3,000 7th 45 4th Raymond Ceulemans 4: 4 8: 7 174 135 1.288 1.730 2.142 7th 36 quarter- final 5 Sang Chun Lee 4: 2 6: 4 127 111 1.144 1.243 1,875 10 27 6th Marco Zanetti 2: 2 5: 3 108 68 1,588 1.607 3,000 8th 24 7th Louis Havermans 4: 2 7: 6 143 109 1,311 2.033 7,500 11 21st 8th Bum Heo-moon 4: 2 8: 5 156 155 1.006 1.125 1.363 6th 18th 9 Raimond Burgman 2: 2 5: 5 113 84 1,345 1,200 3,000 8th 9 10 Henk Habraken 2: 2 5: 4 104 82 1.268 1.191 2.142 6th 9 11 Aria Weyenburg 2: 2 4: 4 104 83 1.253 1.302 1,875 6th 9 12 Norbert Ohagen 2: 2 3: 4 78 72 1.083 1.041 1,500 7th 9 13 Junichi Komori 2: 2 4: 4 91 85 1.070 1.159 1.666 7th 9 14th Frédéric Caudron 2: 2 3: 3 79 74 1.067 0.937 1,000 5 - 15th Nikos Polychronopoulos 2: 2 4: 3 91 94 0.968 1.071 1,875 5 - 16 Fehmi Erdurmaz 2: 2 3: 4 77 97 0.793 0.982 1,000 4th - 17th Park Seung-hee 0: 2 2: 3 66 54 1.222 - 1,500 10 - 18th Gerhard Kostistansky 0: 2 1: 3 41 43 0.953 - 2.142 6th - 19th Kurt Ceulemans 0: 2 1: 3 54 57 0.947 - 1.363 5 - 20th Hasan Pamuk 0: 2 2: 3 59 63 0.936 - 1.153 5 - 21st Rupen Boyaci 0: 2 1: 3 40 47 0.851 - 1,250 5 - 22nd Semih Saygıner 0: 2 0: 3 34 40 0.850 - - 5 - 23 Yorgos Sakkas 0: 2 1: 3 39 46 0.846 - 1,000 7th - 24 Bahadir Beyazbulut 0: 2 1: 3 37 44 0.840 - 1.666 5 - 25th Murat Tüzül 0: 2 0: 3 22nd 28 0.785 - - 4th - 26th Ahmet Özgunay 0: 2 1: 3 29 42 0.690 - 1.153 3 - 27 Nikos Tremoulis 0: 2 0: 3 28 41 0.682 - - 3 - 28 Bora Karatay 0: 2 0: 3 30th 47 0.638 - - 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. 92 . Vienna February 1997, p. 13-17 .