Three Cushion World Cup 2018/2

172nd Three Cushion World Cup 2018/2
Tournament hall of the "Nguyen Du Stadium"
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB / ACBC
Tournament details
Venue:	Nguyen Du Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
Opening:	May 21, 2018
Endgame:	May 27, 2018
Attendees:	149
Defending champion:	Frédéric Caudron
Winner:	Trần Quyết Chiến
2nd finalist:	Ngô Đình Nại
3rd place:	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện , Frédéric Caudron
Prize money:	€ 106,500
Records
Best GD:	2,072 Ngô Đình Nại
Best ED:	3.333 Cho Jae-ho (Q)
Maximum series (HS):	18 Ngô Đình Nại000
Venue on the map
Ho Chi Minh City Venue
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The second three-cushion World Cup 2018 took place from May 21 to 27 in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam . It was the fourth three- cushion World Cup tournament in the 32nd year of the tournament series, a form of carom billiards , in Vietnam.

Prize money and world ranking points

In 2018 the prize money was increased to € 106,500.

	Prize money ( € )	World ranking points
winner	16,000	80
finalist	10,000	54
Semi-finalists	6,000	38
5th - 8th	3,500	26th
9-16	2,500	16
17th - 32nd	1,500	8th
qualification	500	5
P-qual	-	4th
PP qual	-	3
PPP qual	-	2
All in all	106,500	-

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 (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:

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

Seeded players and wild cards

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.

1. Frédéric Caudron
2. Eddy Merckx
3. Dick Jaspers
4. Marco Zanetti
5. Kim Haeng-jik
6. Torbjörn Blomdahl
7. Daniel Sánchez
8. Sameh Sidhom
9. Murat Naci Çoklu
10. Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện
11. Heo Jung-han
12. Choi Sung-won
13. Jérémy Bury
14. Nikos Polychronopoulos

Wildcard players: 1 × UMB  : Robinson Morales 2 × Organizing Association: Trần Quyết Chiến , Mã Minh Cẩm

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.
The first in the group go to the final round of the best 32.

Group stage qualification group space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS A. 2 Cho Jae-ho 2 67 40 1.675 3.333 9 1 Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến 4th 80 56 1.428 1.428 5 3 Vo Hao Tri 0 31 40 0.775 - 6th B. 1 Kang Dong-koong 4th 80 48 1.666 2,000 7th 3 Kostantinos Kokkoris 0 65 45 1.444 - 9 2 Murat Celik 2 72 53 1.358 1,600 11 C. 1 Dương Anh Vũ 4th 80 42 1.904 2.222 9 2 Murat Tüzül 2 67 47 1.425 1,739 10 3 Atsushi Kiyota 0 49 41 1.195 - 5 D. 1 Tayfun Taşdemir 4th 80 43 1,860 1.904 12 3 Shin Jung-ju 0 72 51 1.411 - 8th 2 Tatsuo Arai 2 53 50 1.060 1,379 6th E. 1 Cho Myung-woo 3 80 48 1.666 1,739 10 3 Adnan Yüksel 0 62 54 1.148 - 5 2 Tran Duc Minh 3 80 52 1.538 1,739 8th F. 2 Eddy Leppens 2 77 36 2.138 2,666 10 1 Tonny Carlsen 4th 80 60 1.333 1.904 8th 3 Anh Ji-hun 0 60 54 1.111 - 7th G 1 David Martinez 4th 80 46 1,739 2,352 8th 2 Lee Seung-jin 1 74 56 1.321 1.025 7th 3 Vuong Minh Thien 1 74 68 1.088 1.025 6th H 3 David Pennör 0 69 53 1.301 - 10 2 Lütfi Çenet 2 62 45 1.377 1.666 9 1 Birol Uymaz 4th 80 50 1,600 1.904 11 I. 2 Roland Forthomme 2 53 36 1.472 2.222 7th 1 Kim Jae-guen 4th 80 48 1.666 2.222 8th 3 Do Nguyen Trung Hau 0 58 48 1.208 - 7th J 3 Mã Xuân Cường 0 53 45 1.177 - 6th 2 Kim Hyung-kon 2 69 40 1.725 2,352 13 1 Hong Jin-pyo 4th 80 51 1.568 1,739 6th K 3 Lee Young-hoon 0 60 54 1.111 - 11 1 Semih Saygıner 4th 80 51 1.568 1.666 9 2 Can Çapak 2 67 51 1,313 1.481 6th L. 2 Riad Nady 2 66 57 1.157 1.290 9 1 Ngô Đình Nại 4th 80 41 1.951 2,666 7th 3 Kwang-yeol Park 0 76 46 1.652 - 6th

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 .)

Lucky Loser

The three best runners-up come into the main round

• Tran Duc Minh
• Eddy Leppens
• Kim Hyung-kon

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 /24

Kang Dong-koong

31/24

Frédéric Caudron

40 /24

Choi Sung-won

36/24

Choi Sung-won

40 /28

Tran Duc Minh

39/28

Frédéric Caudron

40 /19

Robinson Morales

18/19

Nikos Polychronopoulos

35/21

Tayfun Taşdemir

40 /21

Tayfun Taşdemir

29/32

Robinson Morales

40 /32

Sameh Sidhom

40/24/0

Robinson Morales

40/24/ 1

Frédéric Caudron

39/26

Trần Quyết Chiến

40 /26

Heo Jung-han

40 /26

Nguyen Duc Anh Chien

29/26

Heo Jung-han

40/19/2

Cho Myung-woo

40/19/ 3

Kim Haeng-jik

19/24

Cho Myung-woo

40 /24

Cho Myung-woo

35/19

Trần Quyết Chiến

40 /19

Murat Naci Çoklu

28/22

Trần Quyết Chiến

40 /22

Kim Hyung-kon

30/18

Trần Quyết Chiến

40 /18

Dick Jaspers

35/19

Kim Hyung-kon

40 /19

Trần Quyết Chiến

40 /15

Ngô Đình Nại

39/15

Marco Zanetti

40 /24

Hong Jin-pyo

37/24

Marco Zanetti

26/13

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

40 /13

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

40 /18

Kim Jae-guen

33/18

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

40 /23

Birol Uymaz

36/23

Daniel Sánchez

26/23

Birol Uymaz

40 /23

Birol Uymaz

40 /24

Dương Anh Vũ

30/24

Dương Anh Vũ

40/27/ 3

Semih Saygıner

40/27/2

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

17/19

Ngô Đình Nại

40 /19

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /16

Tonny Carlsen

39/16

Torbjörn Blomdahl

27/23

Ngô Đình Nại

40 /23

Ngô Đình Nại

40 /20

Mã Minh Cẩm

22/20

Ngô Đình Nại

40 /19

Eddy Merckx

23/19

Jérémy Bury

32/21

Eddy Leppens

40 /21

Eddy Leppens

38/18

Eddy Merckx

40 /18

Eddy Merckx

40 /22

David Martinez

24/22

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 found on the Kozoom website.

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Trần Quyết Chiến 10 200 100 2,000 2,666 12 80 2 Ngô Đinh Nai 8th 199 96 2.072 2,666 18th 54 Semi- finals 3 Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện 6th 137 73 1,876 3.076 12 38 Frédéric Caudron 6th 159 93 1.709 2.105 9 38 quarter- final 5 Cho Myung-woo 4th 115 62 1,854 2.105 11 26th 6th Eddy Merckx 4th 103 59 1.745 2.222 7th 26th 7th Birol Uymaz 4th 116 70 1.657 1,739 11 26th 8th Robinson Morales 4th 98 75 1.306 1.666 8th 26th eighth final 9 Eddy Leppens 2 78 39 2,000 1.904 10 16 10 Kim Hyung-kon 2 70 37 1,891 2.105 13 16 11 Marco Zanetti 2 66 37 1,783 1.666 9 16 12 Heo Jung-han 2 80 45 1,777 2.105 10 16 13 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2 67 39 1.717 2,500 14th 16 14th Choi Sung-won 2 76 52 1.461 1.428 8th 16 15th Dương Anh Vũ 2 70 51 1.372 1.481 9 16 16 Tayfun Taşdemir 2 76 52 1.301 1.904 12 16 1/16 finals 17th Tonny Carlsen 0 39 16 2,437 - 11 8th 18th Dick Jaspers 0 35 19th 1,842 - 7th 8th 19th Kim Jae-guen 0 33 18th 1,833 - 8th 8th 20th Sameh Sidhom 0 40 24 1.666 - 10 8th 21st Nikos Polychronopoulos 0 35 21st 1.666 - 5 8th 22nd Hong Jin-pyo 0 37 24 1.541 - 4th 8th 23 Jérémy Bury 0 32 21st 1.523 - 9 8th 24 Semih Saygıner 0 40 27 1.481 - 9 8th 25th Tran Duc Minh 0 39 28 1,392 - 8th 8th 26th Kang Dong-koong 0 31 24 1.291 - 7th 8th 27 Murat Naci Çoklu 0 28 22nd 1.272 - 4th 8th 28 Daniel Sánchez 0 26th 23 1.130 - 5 8th 29 Nguyen Duc Anh Chien 0 29 26th 1.115 - 10 8th 30th Mã Minh Cẩm 0 22nd 20th 1,100 - 4th 8th 31 David Martinez 0 24 22nd 1.090 - 8th 8th 32 Kim Haeng-jik 0 19th 24 0.791 - 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

See also

• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/1 from April 23 to 29 in Antalya , Turkey 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/3 from June 11th to 17th in Blankenberge , Belgium 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/4 from July 2nd to 8th in Porto , Portugal 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/5 from October 22nd to 28th in La Baule , France 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/6 from November 12th to 18th in Seoul , South Korea 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2018/7 from December 2nd to 8th in Hurghada , Egypt 

Web links

Commons : 3-Cushion World Cup 2018-2  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Tournament website of the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB)
• Schedule (PDF)
• Tournament news on Kozoom
• All results on Kozoom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} General information. (PDF) Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), accessed on May 1, 2018 (English).  
2. ↑ Player List. Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), accessed on May 1, 2018 (English).  
3. ↑ grouping. (PDF) UMB, May 21, 2018, archived from the original on May 23, 2018 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 (English).  
4. ↑ Results qualification. (PDF) UMB, May 24, 2018, archived from the original on May 24, 2018 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English).  
5. ↑ Ranking qualification. (PDF) UMB, May 24, 2018, archived from the original on May 24, 2018 ; accessed on May 24, 2018 (English).  
6. ↑ Results 16th finals. (PDF) UMB, May 24, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2018 (English).