Three Cushion World Championship 1978

33rd Three Cushion World Championship 1978
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
Tournament details
Venue:	Sahara Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Opening:	May 1, 1978
Endgame:	May 6, 1978
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
3rd place:	Junichi Komori
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,679 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,400 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	12 Raymond Ceuleman's Junichi Komori000 00000
Venue on the map
Las Vegas
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The three-cushion world championship in 1978 was the 33rd tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 1 to 6, 1978 in Las Vegas . It was the second three-cushion World Cup in Las Vegas after 1970 .

history

Raymond Ceulemans dominated the three-cushion World Cup again. He won title No. 15 with a new sensational world record in the general average (GD) of 1.679 . The performance of the competition was far below the new record. The Peruvian Humberto Suguimitzu was the only one who could endanger him a little. He was the only one who managed to score more than 50 points against Ceulemans. He lost with 60:52 in 40 shots. Ceulemans narrowly missed a new world record in the best individual average (BED) in the game against Nobuaki Kobayashi . He needed 25 shots for the 60 points, two shots too many for a new record. It was Ceulemans' 100th title in a major tournament. That was 25th world championship title in 32 European titles and 43 Belgian championships.

mode

“Everyone against everyone” was played with 60 points.

Final round

Closing table space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 22: 0 660 393 1.679 2,400 12 2 Nobuaki Kobayashi 17: 5 616 511 1.205 1,875 10 3 Junichi Komori 16: 6 615 576 1.067 1.764 12 4th Ludo Dielis 15: 7 631 598 1.055 1.333 9 5 Allen Gilbert 12:10 576 591 0.975 1.304 11 6th Humberto Suguimitzu 11:11 616 591 1.042 1,818 9 7th Frank Torres 10:12 535 605 0.884 1.111 9 8th Peter Thøgersen 9:13 563 590 0.954 1.176 8th 9 Galo Legarda 9:13 539 598 0.901 1.176 9 10 Carlos Hallon 6:16 480 645 0.744 0.895 10 11 Mohammed Diab 4:18 476 729 0.652 0.895 8th 12 Larry Johnson 1:21 495 665 0.744 0.869 8th Tournament average : 0.959

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. ^ J. Babut du Mares: Le Billard . No. 76 . Brussels September 1978, p. 1-4 .