Three Cushion World Cup 2016/4

160th Three Cushion World Cup 2016/4
Estádio do Dragão
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Main tour
Tournament format:	Round Robin , knock-out system
Organizer:	UMB / CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Pavilhão Dragão Caixa, Porto , Portugal
Opening:	18th July 2016
Endgame:	July 24, 2016
Attendees:	146
Defending champion:	Frédéric Caudron
Winner:	Frédéric Caudron
2nd finalist:	Nikos Polychronopoulos
3rd place:	Daniel Sánchez Marco Zanetti
Prize money:	€ 40,000
Records
Best GD:	2,197 Frédéric Caudron
Best ED:	3,636 Frédéric Caudron Dick Jaspers 00000
Maximum series (HS):	15 Dick Jaspers000
Venue on the map
postage
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The three- cushion world cup 2016/4 was the fourth UMB / CEB world cup tournament in the 30th year of the three-cushion world cup. It took place from July 18 to 24 at the Pavilhão Dragão Caixa sports complex at the FC Porto stadium in Porto . It was the 13th three-cushion world cup tournament, a form of carom billiards , in Portugal .

history

Right at the start of the knockout round there was a remarkable match. The Turk Tayfun Taşdemir missed nine match points against ex-world champion Choi Sung-won and there was an extension. Here Choi presented nine points. Taşdemir could only counter with two points and was eliminated. The game between Eddy Merckx and Lee Choong-bok was also exciting . The Korean Lee was able to make up a 28:39 deficit. In overtime he was still defeated 1: 2. In the round of 16, Dick Jaspers faced the Vietnamese Ma Minh Cam again. In Ho Chi Minh City he needed extra time to win. Here he won with the closest of all results with 40:39. Torbjörn Blomdahl achieved the same result against the Korean Kim Jyung-kon after the Korean missed several match points. In the quarter-finals, Choi also missed a match point against world number one Frédéric Caudron and lost 39:40. In the game between Jaspers and Daniel Sánchez , the Dutchman missed the opening kick and Sánchez started with eleven points. After five shots it was 33: 2 !. With that the game was of course decided. The final score was 40:18 in 13 shots. The other two matches were also of a very high standard. Nikos Polychronopoulos won against record junior world champion Kim Haeng-jik just 40:38 and Marco Zanetti knocked out Blomdahl 2-1 in extra time. In the final, Polychronopoulos, who reached the final for the third time after 2008 and 2009, and Caudron met. The Belgian won here relatively safely. The Greek lost his third final. Every time a Belgian was his opponent.

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	1,450	26th
9-16	1,000	16
17th - 32nd	800	8th
qualification	-	5
P-qual	-	4th
PP qual	-	3
PPP qual	-	2
All in all	40,000	-

Tournament mode

A lot has changed in the tournament mode since 2013. The rate system was abolished because the match time could not be calculated. Matches could last between three and five sets. Good timing was therefore not possible. The game distances were set at 30 points in the pre-qualifying 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 shortened to 40 seconds. Each player can take two extra times per match . This increases the peak time by 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.

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. Frédéric Caudron
2. Torbjörn Blomdahl
3. Eddy Merckx
4. Dick Jaspers
5. Daniel Sánchez
6. Marco Zanetti
7. Tayfun Taşdemir
8. Roland Forthomme
9. Sameh Sidhom
10. Kang Dong-koong
11. Cho Jae-ho
12. Nikos Polychronopoulos

Wildcard players:
1 × ACC : Ragay Henry 1 × CPB : Victor Tenorio 1 × ACBC : Ma Xuan Cuong 2 × Organizing host: Rui Manuel Costa, João Pedro Ferreira

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 three and the three best runners-up in the group 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. 1 Murat Naci Çoklu 4th 80 51 1.568 1.666 7th 3 José-Maria Mas 0 45 49 0.918 --- 5 2 Danid Martinez 2 69 46 1,500 1,818 6th B. 1 Kim Haeng-jik 2 79 44 1,795 2.105 12 3 Can Capak 2 75 51 1,470 1,600 7th 2 Mã Minh Cẩm 2 68 45 1.511 1.538 8th C. 1 Tran Quyet Chien 4th 80 46 1,739 1,818 8th 2 Ly The Vinh 2 67 47 1.425 1,739 7th 3 Kang Sang-ku 0 64 45 1.422 --- 5 D. 3 Riad Nady 0 42 45 0.933 --- 5 2 Rubén Legazpi 2 67 49 1.367 1,739 13 1 Ngo Dinh Nai 4th 80 48 1.666 1,818 10 E. 1 Heo Jung-han 2 77 55 1,400 1.666 10 3 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2 71 66 1.075 0.952 7th 2 Do Nguyen Trung Hau 2 79 73 1.082 1.290 7th F. 2 Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện 2 59 43 1.372 1,600 9 1 Kim Hyung-kon 4th 80 30th 2,666 3.333 9 3 Hong Jin-Pyo 0 28 37 0.756 --- 8th G 1 Jérémy Bury 4th 80 54 1.481 1.538 11 2 Jose Juan Garcia 2 71 52 1,365 1.538 7th 3 Savas Bulut 0 70 54 1.296 --- 7th H 2 Pedro Piedrabuena 2 60 41 1.463 1.904 8th 3 Duong Anh Vu 0 62 43 1.441 --- 11 1 Hakan Incekara 4th 80 42 1.904 2,000 12 I. 1 Lütfi Çenet 3 80 66 1,212 1,379 7th 3 Kim Jae-guen 1 65 53 1,226 1,379 12 2 Carlos Crespo 2 68 61 1,114 1.666 6th J 2 Adnan Yüksel 2 77 60 1.283 2,000 7th 3 Hwang Hyung-bum 0 40 34 1.176 --- 5 1 Murat Tüzül 4th 80 54 1.481 2.857 12 K 1 Semih Saygıner 4th 80 49 1.632 1,739 7th 2 Choi Sung-won 2 77 49 1.571 1.538 10 3 Akif Guvenmez 0 48 52 0.923 --- 4th L. 2 Lee Choong-bok 2 71 42 1.690 1.538 7th 3 Eddy Leppens 2 68 49 1.387 1,739 9 1 Javier Palazón 2 76 39 1,948 2,500 11

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)

Frédéric Caudron

40 /23

Semih Saygıner

38/23

Frédéric Caudron

40 /11

Cho Jae-ho

19/11

Cho Jae-ho

40 /30

Jerémy Bury

34/30

Frédéric Caudron

40 /29

Choi Sung-won

39/29

Hakan Incekara

40 /30

Rui Manuel Costa

35/30

Hakan Incekara

14/19

Choi Sung-won

40 /19

Tayfun Taşdemir

40/28/2

Choi Sung-won

40/28/ 9

Frédéric Caudron

40 /12

Daniel Sánchez

23/12

Sameh Sidhom

40 /21

Lütfi Çenet

18/21

Sameh Sidhom

15/17

Daniel Sánchez

40 /17

Daniel Sánchez

40 /30

Murat Tüzül

28/30

Daniel Sánchez

40 /13

Dick Jaspers

18/13

Kang Dong-koong

37/26

Ma Minh Cam

40 /26

Ma Minh Cam

39/24

Dick Jaspers

40 /24

Dick Jaspers

40 /11

Victor Tenorio

17/11

Frédéric Caudron

40 /16

Nikos Polychronopoulos

25/16

Eddy Merckx

40/21/ 2

Lee Choong-bok

40/21/1

Eddy Merckx

31/21

Nikos Polychronopoulos

40 /21

Nikos Polychronopoulos

40 /14

Murat Naci Çoklu

29/14

Nikos Polychronopoulos

40 /17

Kim Haeng-jik

38/17

Roland Forthomme

28/19

Javier Palazón

40 /19

Javier Palazón

38/23

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /23

Ngo Dinh Nai

32/25

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /25

Nikos Polychronopoulos

40 /25

Marco Zanetti

37/25

Marco Zanetti

40 /23

Ragay Henry

15/23

Marco Zanetti

40 /17

Heo Jung-han

36/17

Tran Quyet Chien

33/27

Heo Jung-han

40 /27

Marco Zanetti

40/19/ 2

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40/19/1

Kim Hyung-kon

40 /22

Ma Xuan Cuong

17/22

Kim Hyung-kon

39/20

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /20

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /31

João Pedro Ferreira

35/31

Closing table

For the sake of clarity, not all players are listed, only the best 32 (participants in the final round). The complete list can be viewed at the UMB.

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Frédéric Caudron 10 200 91 2.197 3,636 13 80 2 Nikos Polychronopoulos 8th 185 91 1.989 2.857 13 54 Semi- finals 3 Daniel Sánchez 6th 143 72 1.986 3.076 11 38 Marco Zanetti 6th 157 84 1,869 2,352 8th 38 quarter- final 5 Dick Jaspers 4th 98 48 2.041 3,636 15th 26th 6th Kim Haeng-jik 4th 118 65 1,815 1,739 10 26th 7th Torbjörn Blomdahl 4th 120 70 1.714 2.105 9 26th 8th Choi Sung-won 4th 119 76 1.565 2.105 10 26th eighth final 9 Kim Hyung-kon 2 79 42 1,880 1,818 11 16 10 Javier Palazón 2 78 42 1.857 2.105 11 16 11 Heo Jung-han 2 76 44 1.727 1.481 10 16 12 Eddy Merckx 2 71 42 1.690 1.904 9 16 13 Ma Minh Cam 2 79 50 1,580 1.538 9 16 14th Sameh Sidhom 2 58 38 1.447 1.904 8th 16 15th Cho Jae-ho 2 59 41 1,439 1.333 9 16 16 Hakan Incekara 2 54 49 1.102 1.333 4th 16 1/16 finals 17th Murat Naci Çoklu 0 29 14th 2.071 --- 7th 8th 18th Lee Choong-bok 0 40 21st 1.904 --- 9 8th 19th Semih Saygıner 0 38 23 1.652 --- 10 8th 20th Victor Tenorio 0 17th 11 1.545 --- 4th 8th 21st Roland Forthomme 0 28 19th 1.473 --- 6th 8th 22nd Tayfun Taşdemir 0 40 28 1.428 --- 7th 8th 23 Kang Dong-koong 0 37 26th 1.423 --- 7th 8th 24 Ngo Dinh Nai 0 32 25th 1.280 --- 6th 8th 25th Tran Quyet Chien 0 33 27 1.222 --- 4th 8th 26th Rui Manuel Costa 0 35 30th 1.166 --- 8th 8th 27 Jerémy Bury 0 34 30th 1.133 --- 6th 8th 28 João Pedro Ferreira 0 35 31 1.129 --- 4th 8th 29 Murat Tüzül 0 28 30th 0.933 --- 4th 8th 30th Lütfi Çenet 0 18th 21st 0.857 --- 9 8th 31 Ma Xuan Cuong 0 17th 22nd 0.772 --- 5 8th 32 Ragay Henry 0 15th 23 0.652 --- 2 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 March 1, 2017.

See also

• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/1 from February 1st to 7th in Bursa , Turkey
• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/2 from March 27th to April 2nd in Luxor , Egypt
• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/3 from 16 to 22 May in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/5 from August 29th to September 4th in Guri , South Korea
• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/6 from October 24th to 30th in La Baule , France
• Three Cushion World Cup 2016/7 from December 11th to 17th in Hurghada , Egypt