The fourth three-cushion World Cup 2018 will take place from July 2nd to 8th in Porto . The tournament will be played in the Pavilhão Dragão Caixa sports complex at the FC Porto stadium. It is the 15th three-cushion world cup tournament in the 32nd year of the tournament series, a form of carom billiards , in Portugal .
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 (shootout) 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.
Four qualifying rounds are played. From the last qualifying round, the 12 group winners and the three best runners-up (lucky losers) 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:
From 2017 the number of players seeded will increase to 14. There are only three wild cards . One UMB wild card and two for the host.
The first 14 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 at positions 1, 16, 8 and 9.
(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 .)
Lucky Loser
The three best runners-up go to the final round
Turkey Birol Uymaz
Korea South Choi Wan-young
Denmark Tonny Carlsen
Swell:
Final round
The tournament tree for the final round is listed below (Pkt / Aufn / Penalty).
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)
BelgiumFrédéric Caudron
40 /11
Korea South Kang Dong-koong
21/11
BelgiumFrédéric Caudron
40 /15
Turkey Murat Naci Çoklu
19/15
TurkeyMurat Naci Çoklu
40 /28
Egypt Riad Nady
20/28
BelgiumFrédéric Caudron
40 /26
Korea South Cho Chi-yeon
28/26
Germany Martin Horn
40/28/1
SpainJavier Palazón
40/28/ 2
Spain Javier Palazon
23/18
Korea SouthCho Chi-yeon
40 /18
Spain Daniel Sánchez
28/19
Korea SouthCho Chi-yeon
40 /19
BelgiumFrédéric Caudron
40 /18
Korea South Heo Jung-han
27/18
Korea SouthHeo Jung-han
40 /24
Turkey Birol Uymaz
33/24
Korea SouthHeo Jung-han
40 /25
Belgium Eddy Leppens
38/25
Korea South Cho Jae-ho
39/23
BelgiumEddy Leppens
40 /23
Korea SouthHeo Jung-han
40 /17
Turkey Semih Saygıner
37/17
Greece Nikos Polychronopoulos
38/24
TurkeySemih Saygıner
40 /24
TurkeySemih Saygıner
40 /20
Italy Marco Zanetti
14/20
ItalyMarco Zanetti
40 /23
Korea South Oh Sung-uk
22/23
BelgiumFrédéric Caudron
40 /14
Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir
21/14
Korea South Kim Haeng-jik
37/24
Korea SouthChoi Wan-young
40 /24
Korea SouthChoi Wan-young
40 /21
Spain Juan David Zapata
25/21
Egypt Sameh Sidhom
38/20
SpainJuan David Zapata
40 /20
Korea South Choi Wan-young
23/25
Korea SouthChoi Sung-won
40 /25
SwedenTorbjörn Blomdahl
40 /25
Portugal Rui Manuel Costa
21/25
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl
35/25
Korea SouthChoi Sung-won
40 /25
Korea SouthChoi Sung-won
40 /25
Turkey Murat Tüzül
36/25
Korea South Choi Sung-won
21/14
TurkeyTayfun Taşdemir
40 /14
Netherlands Dick Jaspers
27/14
TurkeyTayfun Taşdemir
40 /14
TurkeyTayfun Taşdemir
40 /15
Turkey Lütfi Çenet
27/15
France Jérémy Bury
40/30/1
TurkeyLütfi Çenet
40/30/ 2
TurkeyTayfun Taşdemir
40 /21
Belgium Eddy Merckx
36/21
GreeceKostas Papakonstantinou
40 /28
Denmark Tonny Carlsen
25/28
Greece Kostas Papakonstantinou
40/20/5
BelgiumEddy Merckx
40/20/ 7
BelgiumEddy Merckx
40 /21
Korea South Cho Myung-woo
23/21
Closing table
For the sake of clarity, not all 149 players are listed, but only the best 32 (participants in the final round). The complete list can be viewed at the UMB.
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.