Three Cushion World Championship 1968

23rd Three Cushion World Championship 1968
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	City Hall, Düren
Opening:	April 24, 1968
Endgame:	April 28, 1968
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Kōya Ogata
3rd place:	Johann Scherz
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,227 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,538 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	10 Raymond Ceulemans000
Venue on the map
Düren
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The three-cushion world championship in 1968 was the 23rd tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from April 24th to 28th, 1968 in Düren . It was the world championship for the 1967/68 season. In Düren, a three-cushion World Cup took place in Germany for the third time.

history

Raymond Ceulemans secured the sixth world title in three cushion in a row. It was a world championship with no new records. Ceulemans won all of his games with ease. The Düren town hall was a worthy tournament venue and well attended. The last two days were completely sold out.

mode

The game was played in two preliminary round groups “everyone against everyone” with a score of 60 points. The groups consisted of 5 players each. The last two in the group were eliminated, but still played out ninth place.

Group stage

Final table group A space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 8-0 240 203 1.182 1.538 9 2 Kōya Ogata 6: 2 196 237 0.827 0.967 7th 3 Cees van Oosterhout 4: 4 202 270 0.748 0.800 6th 4th Ernst Rudolph 2: 6 197 258 0.763 0.869 6th 5 Allen Gilbert 0: 8 208 280 0.742 --- 7th Group average : 0.835 Final table group B space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Laurent Boulanger 6: 2 230 207 1.111 1,250 7th 2 Johann Scherz 6: 2 230 216 1.064 1.276 8th 3 Marcelo H. Lopez 4: 4 222 226 0.982 1.034 8th 4th Roger Hanoun 2: 6 205 242 0.847 1,132 8th 5 Gert Tiedtke 2: 6 156 245 0.636 0.722 5 Group average : 0.918

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 .)

Final round

Closing table space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 16: 0 480 391 1.227 1.538 10 2 Kōya Ogata 14: 2 436 479 0.910 1.034 9 3 Johann Scherz 10: 6 441 437 1.009 1.276 8th 4th Laurent Boulanger 8: 8 449 438 1.025 1,250 7th 5 Marcelo H. Lopez 8: 8 410 468 0.876 1.034 8th 6th Ernst Rudolph 6:10 406 524 0.774 0.923 7th 7th Cees van Oosterhout 6:10 387 512 0.755 0.909 7th 8th Roger Hanoun 2:14 376 486 0.773 1,132 8th 9 Allen Gilbert 2: 8 268 361 0.742 0.740 7th 10 Gert Tiedtke 2: 8 212 326 0.650 0.722 5 Tournament average : 0.874

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 .)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Helmut Schulz: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . 46th year, no. 6 . Krefeld June 1968, p. 81-85 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 816 .