Three Cushion World Cup 2018/7

177th three-cushion world cup 2018/7
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB / ACC
Tournament details
Venue:	Sheraton Somabay Hotel, Hurghada , Egypt
Opening:	2nd December 2018
Endgame:	December 8, 2018
Attendees:	149
Defending champion:	Eddy Merckx
Winner:	Dick Jaspers
2nd finalist:	Frédéric Caudron
3rd place:	• Kim Haeng-jik • Semih Saygıner
Prize money:	€ 106,500
Records
Best GD:	2,239 Kim Haeng-jik
Best ED:	4,000 Cho Myung-woo
Maximum series (HS):	0022 Cho Myung-woo0
Venue on the map
Hurghada Venue
← 2018/6	2019/1 →

The seventh three-cushion world cup tournament 2018 was held from December 2nd to 8th in the Egyptian holiday metropolis of Hurghada . For the first time the tournament was held at the Sheraton Somabay Hotel.

Prize money and world ranking points

From 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. It was the last tournament in which the first final round was played according to the KO system. From 2019 this round will also be organized as a group round with 4 participants each.

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. Dick Jaspers
3. Kim Haeng-jik
4. Eddy Merckx
5. Marco Zanetti
6. Heo Jung-han
7. Semih Saygıner
8. Trần Quyết Chiến
9. Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện
10. Sameh Sidhom
11. Murat Naci Çoklu
12. Torbjörn Blomdahl
13. Choi Sung-won
14. Cho Jae-ho

Wildcard players: 1 × UMB  : Huberney Cataño 2 × Organizing Association: Mohsen Fouda, Ahmed Abdallah

3rd qualifying round

For the sake of clarity, qualification rounds 1 and 2 are not shown. These can be looked up under the links at the UMB. The first in the group go into the main qualification.

Group stage P qualification group space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS A. 1 Juan David Zapata 4th 60 35 1.714 2,000 9 2 Mehmet Goren 2 39 35 1,114 1,500 9 3 Philip Coenen 0 23 40 0.575 - 3 B. 3 Ihab El Messery 0 51 61 0.836 - 5 2 Gokhan Salman 2 58 54 1.074 1,000 5 1 Kim Hyun-suk 4th 60 55 1.090 1,250 8th C. 1 Martin Horn 4th 60 34 1.764 1,875 8th 2 Murat Tüzül 2 46 42 1.095 1,250 5 3 Manuel Sousa 0 29 40 0.725 - 3 D. 2 Cho Chi-yeon 2 46 38 1,210 1,250 7th 1 Glenn Hofman 4th 60 36 1.666 2.142 11 3 Giuseppe Tiranno 0 33 46 0.717 - 6th E. 3 Mahmoud Ayman 0 30th 41 0.731 - 4th 2 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2 55 37 1.486 2,000 10 1 Barry van Beers 4th 60 48 1,250 1.363 6th F. 3 Ragay Henry 0 36 53 0.679 - 5 1 Oh Sung-uk 4th 60 27 2.222 2,500 12 2 Savas Gungor 2 50 50 1,000 0.789 8th G 3 Murat Celik 1 42 53 0.792 0.967 5 1 Dion Nelin 4th 60 38 1.578 1,875 5 2 Oh Sung-kyu 1 53 47 1.127 0.967 6th H 1 Filipos Kasidokostas 2 60 25th 2,400 2,500 14th 3 Ahmed Emam 0 33 36 0.916 - 7th 2 Jeong Sung-Il 2 37 35 1.057 1.304 6th I. 1 Lee Seung-jin 4th 60 44 1.363 1.578 8th 3 Mashhour Abu Tayeh 0 52 60 0.866 - 7th 2 Apostolos Balogiannis 2 53 54 0.981 0.857 7th J 1 Jacop Soerensen 2 60 43 1.395 1,500 6th 2 Konstantinos Kokkoris 2 43 46 0.934 1.304 4th 3 Dionisis Tsokantas 0 51 43 1.186 - 6th K 3 Ivo Gazdos 0 33 31 1.064 - 5 1 Kim Jae-guen 4th 60 45 1.333 1.666 9 2 Hwang Hyung-bum 2 53 40 1.325 2.307 10 L. 2 Đỗ Nguyễn Trung Hậu 2 54 39 1.384 1,500 6th 1 Thomas Andersen 2 53 35 1.514 2,000 5 3 Savas Bulut 2 45 34 1.323 1.578 8th M. 3 Arnim Kahofer 0 43 64 0.671 - 4th 2 Khaled Salem 2 43 47 0.914 0.882 4th 1 Manol Minaoglu 4th 60 43 1.395 2.307 11 N 3 Yusuke Mori 0 47 38 1,236 - 5 1 Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến 4th 60 45 1.333 1.764 8th 2 Ahmet Alp 2 58 49 1.183 1.428 7th O 2 Kostas Papakonstantinou 2 55 39 1.410 1.428 8th 1 Tolgahan Kiraz 2 59 40 1.475 1.666 7th 3 Ronny Brants 2 49 43 1.139 1.363 7th P 1 Hideaki Kobayashi 2 50 37 1.351 1.764 9 3 Therese Klompenhouwer 2 48 49 0.979 0.937 5 2 Antonio Montes 2 56 52 1.076 1,500 5

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 .)

Main qualification

The group first and the three best second come into the knockout round of the last 32.

Group stage qualification group space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS A. 1 Tayfun Taşdemir 4th 80 38 2.105 2.857 15th 3 Kim Hyun-suk 1 54 41 1.317 1.137 7th 2 Barry van Beers 1 58 51 1.137 - 7th B. 1 Jérémy Bury 4th 80 45 1,777 2,000 17th 3 Thomas Andersen 0 33 46 0.785 - 5 2 Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến 2 60 47 1.276 1,818 7th C. 1 Daniel Sánchez 4th 80 28 2.857 3.076 19th 2 Tolgahan Kiraz 1 69 47 1.468 1,250 7th 3 Kim Jae-guen 1 59 45 1,311 1,250 7th D. 3 Eddy Leppens 0 66 48 1.375 - 8th 2 Hideaki Kobayashi 2 65 50 1,300 1,379 11 1 Lee Seung-jin 4th 80 40 2,000 2.105 10 E. 1 Nikos Polychronopoulos 3 80 52 1.538 1,818 6th 2 Dustin Jaeschke 0 45 49 0.918 - 6th 3 Jacop Soerensen 3 80 57 1.403 1.481 11 F. 2 Kang Dong-koong 2 74 54 1,370 1.428 5 1 Adnan Yüksel 4th 80 54 1.481 1.538 9 3 Manol Minaoglu 0 67 56 1,196 - 8th G 1 Lütfi Çenet 4th 80 41 1.951 2,000 12 3 Mohamed Abdin 0 41 40 1.025 - 6th 2 Dion Nelin 2 67 39 1.717 2.105 9 H 1 Cho Myung-woo 4th 80 32 2,500 4,000 22nd 2 Can Çapak 2 59 36 1.638 1.538 10 3 Glenn Hofman 0 64 48 1.333 - 10 I. 2 Tonny Carlsen 2 76 60 1.266 1,379 7th 3 Riad Nady 0 57 64 0.890 - 5 1 Juan David Zapata 4th 80 66 1,212 1.290 6th J 2 Roland Forthomme 2 76 45 1.688 1.904 10 1 Birol Uymaz 4th 80 41 1.951 2,352 14th 3 Martin Horn 0 57 38 1,500 - 6th K 1 Oh Sung-uk 3 80 52 1.538 1.904 8th 2 Dương Anh Vũ 2 60 47 1.276 1.538 7th 3 Mã Xuân Cường 1 65 57 1,140 1.290 8th L. 1 Filipos Kasidokostas 4th 80 45 1,777 1,818 12 2 Javier Palazón 2 78 53 1.471 1.290 8th 3 David Martinez 0 73 54 1.351 - 10

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

• Jacop Soerensen
• Dion Nelin
• Roland Forthomme

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 /20

Juan David Zapata

30/20

Frédéric Caudron

40 /18

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

25/18

Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện

40 /19

Birol Uymaz

18/19

Frédéric Caudron

40 /17

Torbjörn Blomdahl

32/17

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /22

Ahmed Abdallah

24/22

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /21

Marco Zanetti

29/21

Marco Zanetti

40 /19

Tayfun Taşdemir

37/19

Frédéric Caudron

40 /17

Semih Saygıner

39/17

Murat Naci Çoklu

40 /14

N. Polychronopoulos

26/14

Murat Naci Çoklu

39/26

Semih Saygıner

40 /26

Semih Saygıner

40 /18

Filipos Kasidokostas

31/18

Semih Saygıner

40 /17

Roland Forthomme

17/17

Choi Sung-won

20/16

Roland Forthomme

40 /16

Roland Forthomme

40 /31

Mohsen Fouda

26/31

Eddy Merckx

29/19

Mohsen Fouda

40 /19

Frédéric Caudron

34/21

Dick Jaspers

40 /21

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /16

Lee Seung-jin

18/16

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /13

Adnan Yüksel

24/13

Cho Myung-woo

36/23

Adnan Yüksel

40 /23

Kim Haeng-jik

40 20

Jérémy Bury

38/20

Trần Quyết Chiến

34/18

Jérémy Bury

40 /18

Jérémy Bury

40 /27

Huberney Cataño

30/27

Daniel Sánchez

34/30

Huberney Cataño

40 /30

Kim Haeng-jik

39/22

Dick Jaspers

40 /22

Heo Jung-han

36/22

Dion Nelin

40 /22

Dion Nelin

40 /26

Cho Jae-ho

30/26

Cho Jae-ho

40 /24

Oh Sung-uk

39/24

Dion Nelin

29/15

Dick Jaspers

40 /15

Sameh Sidhom

40 /27

Jacop Soerensen

30/27

Sameh Sidhom

40/21/3

Dick Jaspers

40/21/ 4

Dick Jaspers

40 /19

Lütfi Çenet

29/19

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 kozoom.com.

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Dick Jaspers 10 200 98 2.040 2,666 11 80 2 Frédéric Caudron 8th 194 93 2.086 2,352 11 54 Semi- finals 3 Kim Haeng-jik 6th 159 71 2.239 3.076 13 38 Semih Saygıner 6th 159 78 2.038 2,352 12 38 quarter- final 5 Torbjörn Blomdahl 4th 112 60 1,866 1.904 9 26th 6th Jérémy Bury 4th 118 65 1,815 2.222 18th 26th 7th Dion Nelin 4th 109 43 1.730 2.105 10 26th 8th Roland Forthomme 4th 97 64 1.515 2,500 10 26th eighth final 9 Murat Naci Çoklu 2 79 40 1.975 2.857 11 16 10 Adnan Yüksel 2 64 36 1,777 1,739 9 16 11 Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện 2 65 37 1.756 2.105 7th 16 12 Marco Zanetti 2 69 40 1.725 2.105 11 16 13 Sameh Sidhom 2 80 48 1.666 2.105 8th 16 14th Cho Jae-ho 2 70 50 1,400 1.666 7th 16 15th Mohsen Fouda 2 66 50 1,320 2.105 16 16 16 Huberney Cataño 2 70 57 1.228 1.333 7th 16 1/16 finals 17th Tayfun Taşdemir 0 37 19th 1,947 2.857 15th 8th 18th Trần Quyết Chiến 0 34 18th 1,888 - 10 8th 19th Nikos Polychronopoulos 0 26th 14th 1.857 1,818 6th 8th 20th Filipos Kasidokostas 0 31 18th 1.722 2,500 14th 8th 21st Heo Jung-han 0 36 22nd 1.636 - 7th 8th 22nd Oh Sung-uk 0 39 24 1.625 2,500 12 8th 23 Cho Myung-woo 0 36 23 1.565 4,000 22nd 8th 24 Eddy Merckx 0 29 19th 1.526 - 6th 8th 25th Lütfi Çenet 0 29 19th 1.526 2,000 12 8th 26th Juan David Zapata 0 30th 20th 1,500 2,000 11 8th 27 Choi Sung-won 0 20th 16 1,250 - 8th 8th 28 Daniel Sánchez 0 34 30th 1.133 3.076 19th 8th 29 Lee Seung-jin 0 18th 16 1.125 2.105 10 8th 30th Jacop Soerensen 0 30th 27 1.111 1,500 11 8th 31 Ahmed Abdallah 0 24 22nd 1.090 - 6th 8th 32 Birol Uymaz 0 18th 19th 0.947 2,352 14th 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 2018/2 from May 21 to 27 in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 
• 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 

Web links

• Tournament details
• Tournament reports

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} General information. (PDF) Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), accessed on November 19, 2018 (English).  
2. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: World Cup Final 2018 in Hurghada. Kozoom , December 2, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .  
3. ↑ Player List. UMB, accessed on November 19, 2018 .  
4. ↑ Results P qualification. (PDF) UMB, December 4, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 (English).  
5. ↑ Results qualification. (PDF) UMB, December 5, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 (English).  
6. ↑ Results 16th finals. (PDF) UMB, December 6, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 (English).  
7. ↑ Three Cushion World Cup - Hurghada (EGY) . Kozoom multimedia. Retrieved March 15, 2019.