Three Cushion World Cup 2015/6

156th Three Cushion World Cup 2015/6
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Main tour
Tournament format:	Round Robin , knock-out system
Organizer:	UMB / ACC
Tournament details
Venue:	Sunrise Garden Beach Resort, Hurghada , Egypt
Opening:	December 13, 2015
Endgame:	December 19, 2015
Attendees:	142
Defending champion:	Murat Naci Çoklu
Winner:	Frédéric Caudron
2nd finalist:	Marco Zanetti
3rd place:	• Lütfi Çenet • Daniel Sánchez
Prize money:	€ 35,000
Records
Best GD:	2,217 Marco Zanetti
Best ED:	4,000 Lütfi Çenet
Maximum series (HS):	16 Lütfi Çenet K. Papakonstantinou 000 00000
Venue on the map
Hurghada
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The three- cushion world cup 2015/6 was the sixth and final UMB / ACC world cup tournament of the 29th season of the three- cushion world cup. It took place from December 13-19, 2015 in Hurghada , Egypt . It was the eleventh three-cushion World Cup tournament in Hurghada since 2004.

history

Frédéric Caudron won his 15th World Cup tournament in Hurghada. After the final against Marco Zanetti , who played a very strong tournament, Caudron said it was one of the best three-cushion games he had ever played. For Zanetti, who won in Hurghada in 2014, making it to the final was extremely important. He had 80 points to defend in the world rankings. Failure early on threatened to fall from the top twelve. Because only the first twelve get reimbursed all expenses for a World Cup tournament.

Daniel Sánchez was able to secure the overall World Cup for the fifth time . After a hard-fought win in extra time against Tayfun Taşdemir in the quarter-finals , his victory was clear and he will play against world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl in the Player of the Year for the extra bonus of the year in Antwerp .

Prize money and world ranking points

	Prize money ( € )	World ranking points
winner	5,500	80
finalist	3,500	54
Semi-finalists	2,200	38
5th - 8th	1,300	26th
9-16	850	16
17th - 32nd	600	8th
qualification	-	5
P-qual	-	4th
PP qual	-	3
PPP qual	-	2
All in all	35,000	-

Tournament mode

A lot has changed in the tournament mode since 2013.

• The sentence system was abolished because the dullness was not calculable. Matches could last between three and five sets. Good timing was therefore not possible.
• The game distances were set at 30 points in the per-qualification rounds and 40 points in the main qualification and in the knockout games. A tie is possible in the qualifying rounds. In the knockout round, overtime is played in the event of a tie. Each of the two players starts with the initial push. Whoever scores more points wins the match. If there is also a tie in extra time, the kick starts again until a winner is determined.
• The shot clock was on 40 seconds.
• There are only two wildcards for the organizer and one each for three of the four associations CPB , ACBC , CEB and ACC in which the World Cup does not take place.
• Four qualifying rounds are played. From the last qualifying round, the 12 group winners and the three best runners-up qualify for the final round. The main tournament is played with 32 participants.

Since the Korean army did not give Kim Haeng-jik permission to leave South Korea , four runners-up came into the main field.

In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Seeded players and wild cards

The first 12 players in the world rankings and the wildcard players automatically took part as players in the tournament in the knockout round. The first four of the world rankings are placed in positions 1, 16, 8 and 9.

1. Torbjörn Blomdahl
2. Eddy Merckx
3. Dick Jaspers
4. Tayfun Taşdemir
5. Daniel Sánchez
6. Choi Sung-won
7. Marco Zanetti
8. Frédéric Caudron
9. Cho Jae-ho
10. Hwang Hyung-bum
11. Kim Haeng-jik
12. Heo Jung-han

Wildcard players:
1 × CPB : José Juan Garcia 1 × ACBC : Lee Choong-bok 1 × CEB : Roland Forthomme 2 × Organizing host: Sameh Sidhom, Mohsen Fouda

Qualifying round

For the sake of clarity, qualification rounds 1, 2 and 3 are not shown. These can be looked up under the links at the UMB . In the last (4th) qualifying round, up to 40 points are played in groups A – L with 3 players each. The top four and the four best runners-up go to the final round of the best 32. In the event of a tie, the better GD applies .

Final table qualification group stage group space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS A. 2 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2 74 50 1,480 1.666 7th 3 Cho Myung-woo 0 63 50 1,260 --- 6th 1 Semih Saygıner 4th 80 52 1.538 1.538 11 B. 2 Trần Quyết Chiến 2 78 58 1,344 1.333 8th 1 Kostas Papakonstantinou 4th 80 49 1.632 1.904 16 3 Birol Uymaz 0 61 51 1,196 --- 5 C. 2 Pedro Piedrabuena 2 62 46 1.347 1.333 11 1 Kim Jae-guen 4th 80 51 1.568 2,500 10 3 Ihab El Messery 0 51 65 0.784 --- 6th D. 3 Dionisis Tsokantas 0 78 80 0.975 --- 7th 1 Gokhan Salman 4th 80 72 1.111 1.142 7th 2 Gregory Le Deventec 2 76 82 0.926 0.972 5 E. 2 Adnan Yüksel 2 72 49 1.469 1.666 11 1 Murat Tüzül 4th 80 63 1.269 1,600 7th 3 Hwang Durk-hee 0 53 62 0.854 --- 4th F. 1 Eddy Leppens 2 71 57 1.245 1.666 7th 2 Ragay Henry 2 61 68 0.897 0.909 6th 3 Ahmet Bayatli 2 79 77 1.025 1,212 9 G 2 Riad Nady 2 76 63 1.206 1.081 6th 3 Kim Hyung-kon 0 77 62 1.241 --- 7th 1 Javier Palazón 4th 80 51 1.568 1,600 7th H 3 Cho Chi-yeon 2 68 54 1.259 2,000 6th 1 Arnim Kahofer 2 61 45 1.355 1,600 8th 2 Mehmet Goren 2 78 59 1.322 1.176 7th I. 1 Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện 4th 80 46 1,739 2,500 10 2 Haluk Kara 2 60 84 0.714 0.740 4th 3 Hesham Zaghloul 0 46 70 0.657 --- 3 J 1 Lütfi Çenet 3 80 57 1.403 1.538 8th 3 Christian Rudolph 0 68 67 1.014 --- 7th 2 Hong Jin-pyo 3 80 62 1.290 1.538 8th K 1 Tolgahan Kiraz 4th 80 43 1,860 1.904 13 2 Can Çapak 2 78 62 1.258 1,000 9 3 Savas Bulut 0 55 61 0.901 --- 8th L. 2 Nikos Polychronopoulos 2 71 41 1.731 1.538 6th 1 Murat Naci Çoklu 4th 80 42 1.904 1.666 11 3 Hesham Saad 0 51 53 0.962 --- 4th

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 .)

(The numbers in bold show the decisive valuation for the entry into the final round.)

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.

1/16 final (game up to 40 points)

Round of 16 (game up to 40 points)

Quarter-finals (game up to 40 points)

Semi-finals (game up to 40 points)

Final (game up to 40 points)

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /21

Mohsen Fouda

24/21

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /24

Javier Palazón

32/24

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

30/17

Javier Palazón

40 /17

Torbjörn Blomdahl

29/20

Marco Zanetti

40 /20

Kim Jae-guen

22/27

Hong Jin-pyo

40 /27

Hong Jin-pyo

30/20

Marco Zanetti

40 /20

Marco Zanetti

2 40 /14

Eddy Leppens

25/14

Marco Zanetti

40 /13

Daniel Sánchez

30/13

Tolgahan Kiraz

40 /25

Roland Forthomme

34/25

Tolgahan Kiraz

27/24

Daniel Sánchez

40 /24

Daniel Sánchez

40 /19

Semih Saygıner

29/19

Daniel Sánchez

40/25/ 4

Tayfun Taşdemir

40/25/2

Murat Naci Çoklu

40 /21

Nikos Polychronopoulos

24/21

Murat Naci Çoklu

36/19

Tayfun Taşdemir

40 /19

Tayfun Taşdemir

40 /31

Arnim Kahofer

30/31

Marco Zanetti

13/11

Frédéric Caudron

40 /11

Dick Jaspers

40 /21

Jean Paul de Bruijn

306/21

Dick Jaspers

34/21

Lütfi Çenet

40 /21

Cho Jae-ho

19/10

Lütfi Çenet

40 /10

Lütfi Çenet

40 /25

Lee Choong-bok

38/25

Choi Sung-won

40 /12

Sameh Sidhom

11/12

Choi Sung-won

33/23

Lee Choong-bok

40 /23

Hwang Hyung-bum

35/39

Lee Choong-bok

40 /39

Lütfi Çenet

20/19

Frédéric Caudron

40 /19

Frédéric Caudron

40 /26

José Juan Garcia

31/26

Frédéric Caudron

40 /18

Heo Jung-han

29/18

Heo Jung-han

40 /13

Adnan Yüksel

25/13

Frédéric Caudron

40 /17

Kostas Papakonstantinou

26/17

Kostas Papakonstantinou

40 /23

Gokhan Salman

22/23

Kostas Papakonstantinou

40 /13

Eddy Merckx

16/13

Eddy Merckx

40 /21

Murat Tüzül

14/21

Closing table

For the sake of clarity, not all 142 players are listed, but only the best 32 (participants in the final round).

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Frédéric Caudron 10 200 91 2.197 3,636 10 80 2 Marco Zanetti 8th 173 78 2.217 3.076 12 54 Semi- finals 3 Lütfi Çenet 6th 140 75 1,866 4,000 16 38 Daniel Sánchez 6th 150 81 1,851 2.307 8th 38 quarter- final 5 Kostas Papakonstantinou 4th 106 53 2,000 3.076 16 26th 6th Torbjörn Blomdahl 4th 109 65 1.676 1.904 11 26th 7th Tayfun Taşdemir 4th 120 75 1,600 2.105 8th 26th 8th Lee Choong-bok 4th 118 87 1.356 1,739 12 26th eighth final 9 Heo Jung-han 2 69 31 2.225 3.076 11 16 10 Choi Sung-won 2 73 35 2.085 3.333 10 16 11 Murat Naci Çoklu 2 76 40 1,900 1.904 11 16 12 Dick Jaspers 2 74 42 1.761 1.904 12 16 13 Javier Palazon 2 72 41 1.756 2.532 11 16 14th Eddy Merckx 2 56 34 1.647 1.904 5 16 15th Hong Jin-pyo 2 70 47 1.489 1,500 8th 16 16 Tolgahan Kiraz 2 67 49 1.367 1,600 13 16 1/16 finals 17th Adnan Yüksel 0 25th 13 1.923 --- 11 8th 18th Cho Jae-ho 0 19th 10 1,900 --- 8th 8th 19th Eddy Leppens 0 25th 14th 1,785 --- 7th 8th 20th Nguyen Quoc Nguyen 0 30th 17th 1.764 --- 10 8th 21st Jean Paul de Bruijn 0 36 21st 1.714 --- 9 8th 22nd Semih Saygıner 0 29 19th 1.526 --- 11 8th 23 Roland Forthomme 0 34 25th 1,360 --- 5 8th 24 José Juan Garcia 0 31 26th 1.192 --- 4th 8th 25th Mohsen Fouda 0 24 21st 1.142 --- 6th 8th 26th Nikos Polychronopoulos 0 24 21st 1.142 --- 6th 8th 27 Arnim Kahofer 0 30th 31 0.967 --- 8th 8th 28 Gokhan Salman 0 22nd 23 0.956 --- 7th 8th 29 Sameh Sidhom 0 11 12 0.916 --- 3 8th 30th Hwang Hyung-bum 0 35 39 0.897 --- 4th 8th 31 Kim Jae-guen 0 22nd 27 0.814 --- 10 8th 32 Murat Tüzül 0 14th 21st 0.666 --- 7th 8th

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 .)

annotation

• ^{* 1} = world ranking points

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Info. On: umb-carom.com. Retrieved February 2, 2017.

See also

• Three Cushion World Cup 2015/1 from March 29th to April 4th in Luxor
• Three Cushion World Cup 2015/2 from July 6th to 12th in Porto
• Three-cushion World Cup 2015/3 from August 10 to 16 in Ho Chi Minh City
• Three Cushion World Cup 2015/4 from September 6th to 13th in Guri
• Three Cushion World Cup 2015/5 from October 12th to 18th in Istanbul