Three-cushion world championship 2016

69th three-cushion World Cup 2016
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin , knock out
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Palais des Congrès de Bordeaux, Bordeaux , France
Opening:	15th November 2016
Endgame:	19th November 2016
Attendees:	48
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Daniel Sánchez
2nd finalist:	Kim Haeng-jik
3rd place:	Semih Saygıner Eddy Leppens
Prize money:	€ 58,200
Records
Best GD:	2.135 Marco Zanetti
Best ED:	4,000 Semih Saygıner
Maximum series (HS):	18 Eddy Leppens000
Venue on the map
Bordeaux
← 2015	2017 →

The three-cushion world championship 2016 took place from November 15 to 19 in the French wine town of Bordeaux . It was the second three-cushion world championship in a row in Bordeaux.

The world championship has been played in the three- cushion carom variant since 1928 . The defending champion is the Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl .

General information

The UMB rules for three-band / singles were applicable (as of July 7, 2012). The game was played in 16 groups of three in the group stage, and the first placed made it to the round of 16.

Expense allowance:

• Continental players: € 500
• Intercontinental player: € 700

Game sequence:

• Player 2 versus Player 3
• Player 1 versus loser 2/3
• Player 1 versus winner 2/3

The rating is as follows:

1. Match Points ( MP )
2. General average ( GD )
3. Maximum series ( HS )

Time regulation:

• 40 seconds per push.
• After the time has elapsed (acoustic signal), the ball is placed again for the opponent.
• Two extensions per set within the 40 seconds are possible, new time limit: another 40 seconds.

Follow-up:

• Qualifying round: Yes, both players get 1 point in the event of a tie.
• Final round: Yes, in the event of a tie: Penalty .

Prize money and world ranking points

space	total	Points
winner	€ 10,000	120
finalist	€ 6,000	081
3rd & 3rd place	€ 3,500	057
5th - 8th place	€ 2,000	039
8th - 16th place	€ 1,000	024
17th - 32nd place	600 €	012
33rd - 48th place	600 €	008th
total	€ 58,200

Attendees

The field consists of 48 players, with the defending champion Torbjörn Blomdahl automatically entitled to participate. The first 16 players in the world rankings (places 2–17) are invited directly. Places 23-46 are nominated by the individual continental associations, with the following breakdown: Europe (CEB): 13, newly added since April 2013 is Africa (ACF): 2, America (CPB): 8 and Asia (ACBC): 6 The places 47 and 48 are allocated via wildcards from the host association (here: CEB). With Antoine Gholam, a Lebanese took part in a World Cup for the first time.

Failures

Since the Swede Michael Nilsson canceled his participation in the World Cup for private reasons, the Frenchman Cédric Melnytschenko moved up into the field at short notice. The Colombian Henry Diaz was robbed shortly before he left for Europe. All of his personal IDs and flight ticket were stolen. A flight to France and participation was no longer possible. For him, the Frenchman Pierre Soumagne jumped into the World Cup tournament at short notice.

Defending champion 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl according to world rankings 2 Frédéric Caudron 3 Dick Jaspers 4th Eddy Merckx 5 Marco Zanetti 6th Daniel Sánchez 7th Sameh Sidhom 8th Nikos Polychronopoulos 9 Jérémy Bury 10 Trần Quyết Chiến 11 Kang Dong-koong 12 Cho Jae-ho 13 Roland Forthomme 14th Tayfun Taşdemir 15th Kim Haeng-jik 16 Heo Jung-han 17th Murat Naci Çoklu Posted Europe (CEB) 18th Michael Nilsson Cédric Melnytschenko * 19th Semih Saygıner 20th Radek Novak 21st Christian Rudolph 22nd Konstantinos Kokkoris 23 Eddy Leppens 24 Raimond Burgman

25th Jean-Christophe Roux 26th Javier Palazón 27 Arnim Kahofer 28 Lars Dunch 29 Christakis Christoforou 30th Cetin Behzat America (CPB) 31 Hugo Patiño 32 Erick Tellez 33 Pedro Piedrabuena 34 Huberney Cataño 35 Robinson Morales 36 Henry Diaz Pierre Soumagne * 37 Ramón Rodriguez 38 Guillermo Perez Asia (ACBC) 39 Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện 40 Kim Jae-guen 41 Antoine Gholam 42 Ryūji Umeda 43 Mã Minh Cẩm 44 Kim Hyung-kon Africa (ACF) 45 Riad Nady 46 Ihab El Messery Wildcard 47 Jérôme Barbeillon 48 Marc Boingneres

Note: * Successors

Group stage

Legend
Abbr.	meaning	Abbr.	meaning
MP	Match points	HS	Maximum series
SV	Sentence ratio	ED	Single average
GD	General average	BSD	Best sentence average
BED	Best individual average	PP	Game points
BG	Best sentence average	BMD	Best team average
Pt.	points scored	GUV	G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren; Points 2-1-0 are awarded in this order
Recording	required recordings		Group winners advance to the final round
Possibly. not all terms apply or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .

Group A
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Torbjörn Blomdahl	4th	80	54	1.481	1.481	12		Christakis Christoforou	22: 40 /21	Ramón Rodriguez
2	Ramón Rodriguez	2	76	48	1,583	1.904	10		Torbjörn Blomdahl	40 : 18/27	Christakis Christoforou
3	Christakis Christoforou	0	40	48	0.833	---	4th		Torbjörn Blomdahl	40 : 36/27	Ramón Rodriguez
Group B
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Jérôme Barbeillon	4th	80	45	1,777	2,000	10		Jérôme Barbeillon	40 : 21/20	Erick Tellez
2	Frédéric Caudron	2	71	58	1.224	1,212	5		Frédéric Caudron	40 : 34/33	Erick Tellez
3	Erick Tellez	0	55	53	1.037	---	6th		Frédéric Caudron	31: 40 /25	Jérôme Barbeillon
Group C
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Dick Jaspers	4th	80	38	2.105	2.222	13		Arnim Kahofer	40 : 33/39	Antoine Gholam
2	Arnim Kahofer	2	66	59	1.118	1.025	10		Dick Jaspers	40 : 19/18	Antoine Gholam
3	Antoine Gholam	0	52	57	0.912	---	6th		Dick Jaspers	40 : 26/20	Arnim Kahofer
Group D
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Eddy Merckx	4th	80	40	2,000	2,000	11		Kim Jae-guen	40 : 35/26	Raimond Burgman
2	Kim Jae-guen	2	72	46	1.565	1,583	10		Eddy Merckx	40 : 24/20	Raimond Burgman
3	Raimond Burgman	0	59	46	1.282	---	7th		Eddy Merckx	40 : 32/20	Kim Jae-guen
Group E
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Marco Zanetti	4th	80	39	2.051	2.857	12		Kim Hyung-kon	40 : 25/28	Hugo Patino
2	Kim Hyung-kon	2	54	42	1.285	1.428	7th		Marco Zanetti	40 : 32/25	Hugo Patino
3	Hugo Patino	0	57	53	1.075	---	6th		Marco Zanetti	40 : 14/14	Kim Hyung-kon
Group F.
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Daniel Sánchez	3	80	37	2.162	2,500	13		Christian Rudolph	34: 40 /34	Pierre Soumagne
2	Pierre Soumagne	3	80	55	1.454	1.904	9		Daniel Sánchez	40 : 11/16	Christian Rudolph
3	Christian Rudolph	0	45	50	0.900	---	6th		Daniel Sánchez	40 : 40 /21	Pierre Soumagne
Group G
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Ma Minh Cam	4th	80	49	1.632	1.904	7th		Ma Minh Cam	40 : 27/28	Konstantinos Kokkoris
2	Sameh Sidhom	2	63	51	1.235	1.333	13		Sameh Sidhom	40 : 35/30	Konstantinos Kokkoris
3	Konstantinos Kokkoris	0	62	58	1.068	---	10		Sameh Sidhom	23: 40 /21	Ma Minh Cam
Group H.
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Nikos Polychronopoulos	4th	80	41	1.951	2.105	10		Javier Palazón	40 : 5/17	Cetin Behzat
2	Javier Palazón	2	68	39	1.743	2,352	11		Nikos Polychronopoulos	40 : 11/19	Cetin Behzat
3	Cetin Behzat	0	16	36	0.444	---	2		Nikos Polychronopoulos	40 : 28/22	Javier Palazón
Group I.
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Eddy Leppens	3	80	38	2.105	2,352	11		Jérémy Bury	40 : 24/26	Cédric Melnytschenko
2	Jérémy Bury	3	80	47	1.702	1.538	9		Eddy Leppens	40 : 21/17	Cédric Melnytschenko
3	Cédric Melnytschenko	0	45	43	1.046	---	7th		Eddy Leppens	40 : 40 /21	Jérémy Bury
Group J
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Robinson Morales	4th	80	38	2.105	2.857	9		Ihab El Messery	11: 40 /14	Robinson Morales
2	Tran Quyet Chien	2	75	52	1,442	1.428	9		Tran Quyet Chien	40 : 35/28	Ihab El Messery
3	Ihab El Messery	0	46	42	1.095	---	6th		Tran Quyet Chien	35: 40 /24	Robinson Morales
Group K
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Semih Saygıner	4th	80	35	2.285	4,000	9		Semih Saygıner	40 : 13/10	Ryūji Umeda
2	Kang Dong-koong	2	65	41	1.585	2,500	5		Kang Dong-koong	40 : 20/16	Ryūji Umeda
3	Ryūji Umeda	0	33	26th	1.269	---	5		Kang Dong-koong	28: 40 /25	Semih Saygıner
Group L
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Cho Jae-ho	4th	80	52	1.538	1,600	7th		Riad Nady	32: 40 /38	Radek Novak
2	Radek Novak	2	72	65	1.107	1.052	8th		Cho Jae-ho	40 : 25/25	Riad Nady
3	Riad Nady	0	57	63	0.904	---	7th		Cho Jae-ho	40 : 32/27	Radek Novak
Group M
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Huberney Cataño	4th	80	46	1,739	1,818	9		Huberney Cataño	40 : 26/24	Lars Dunch
2	Roland Forthomme	2	71	47	1.510	1,600	7th		Roland Forthomme	40 : 16/25	Lars Dunch
3	Lars Dunch	0	42	49	0.857	---	6th		Roland Forthomme	31: 40 /22	Huberney Cataño
Groups
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Tayfun Taşdemir	4th	80	53	1.509	2,666	12		Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	40 : 29/24	Jean-Christophe Roux
2	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	2	59	39	1.512	1.666	11		Tayfun Taşdemir	40 : 38/38	Jean-Christophe Roux
3	Jean-Christophe Roux	0	67	62	1.080	---	6th		Tayfun Taşdemir	40 : 19/15	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen
Group O
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Kim Haeng-jik	4th	80	39	2.051	2.222	10		Pedro Piedrabuena	34: 40 /27	Marc Boingneres
2	Marc Boingneres	2	62	48	1.291	1.481	7th		Kim Haeng-jik	40 : 16/18	Pedro Piedrabuena
3	Pedro Piedrabuena	0	50	45	1.111	---	7th		Kim Haeng-jik	40 : 22/21	Marc Boingneres
Group p
Closing table									Results
rank	Surname	MP	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	HS		Player 1	Erg.	Player 2
1	Murat Naci Çoklu	3	80	45	1,777	1,818	11		Murat Naci Çoklu	40 : 16/23	Guillermo Perez
2	Heo Jung-han	3	80	63	1.269	0.975	8th		Heo Jung-han	40 : 34/41	Guillermo Perez
3	Guillermo Perez	0	50	64	0.781	---	5		Heo Jung-han	40 : 40 /22	Murat Naci Çoklu

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below. The game was played at 40 points with a kick. All playing times given refer to the local time.

	Round of 16 40 points								Quarterfinals 40 points								Semi-final 40 points								Final 40 points
	11/18/2016 13:30	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Semih Saygıner	2	40	19th	2.105	11
									11/18/2016 6:30 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Murat Naci Çoklu	0	25th	19th	1,315	9
									Semih Saygıner	2	40	40	1,000	6th
	11/18/2016 13:30	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
									Jérôme Barbeillon	0	34	40	0.850	4th
	Jérôme Barbeillon	2	40	14th	2.857	10
																	19.11.2016 13: 00h	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Huberney Cataño	0	17th	14th	1,214	5
																	Semih Saygıner	0	18th	16	1.125	4th
	11/18/2016 13:30	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
																	Kim Haeng-jik	2	40	16	2,500	11
	Kim Haeng-jik	2	40	18th	2.222	9
									11/18/2016 6:30 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Tayfun Taşdemir	0	25th	18th	1.388	10
									Kim Haeng-jik	2	40	24	1.667	5
	11/18/2016 13:30	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
									Marco Zanetti	0	38	24	1,583	6th
	Marco Zanetti	2	40	11	3,636	10
																									19.11.2016 6:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Torbjörn Blomdahl	0	21st	11	1.909	7th
																									Kim Haeng-jik	0	37	19th	1,947	6th
	11/18/2016 4:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
																									Daniel Sánchez	2	40	19th	2.105	7th
	Robinson Morales	0	9	16	0.562	3
									11/18/2016 9:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Daniel Sánchez	2	40	16	2,500	8th
									Daniel Sánchez	2	40	25th	1,600	5
	11/18/2016 4:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
									Cho Jae-ho	0	34	25th	1,360	5
	Eddy Merckx	0	33	24	1.375	8th
																	11/19/2016 3 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Cho Jae-ho	2	40	24	1.666	6th
																	Daniel Sánchez	2	40	24	1.666	8th
	11/18/2016 4:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
																	Eddy Leppens	0	39	24	1.625	6th
	Polychronopoulos	2	40	23	1,739	11
									11/18/2016 9:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
	Ma Minh Cam	0	36	23	1.565	6th
									Polychronopoulos	0	37	30th	1,233	9
	11/18/2016 4:00 p.m.	MP	Pt.	Recording	ED	HS
									Eddy Leppens	2	40	30th	1.333	12
	Dick Jaspers	0	32	19th	1.684	7th
	Eddy Leppens	2	40	19th	2.105	18th

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRLP final 1 Daniel Sánchez 11 240 121 1.983 2,500 13 120 2 Kim Haeng-jik 10 237 116 2.043 2,500 10 81 Semi- finals 3 Semih Saygıner 8th 178 110 1.618 4,000 11 57 Eddy Leppens 7th 199 111 1,792 2,352 18th 57 quarter- final 5 Marco Zanetti 6th 158 74 2.135 3,636 12 39 6th Nikos Polychronopoulos 6th 157 94 1.670 2.105 11 39 7th Jérôme Barbeillon 6th 154 99 1.555 2.857 10 39 8th Cho Jae-ho 6th 154 101 1.524 1.666 7th 39 eighth final 9 Dick Jaspers 4th 112 57 1.964 2.222 13 24 10 Eddy Merckx 4th 117 64 1.765 2,000 11 24 11 Robinson Morales 4th 89 54 1.648 2.857 9 24 12 Huberney Cataño 4th 97 60 1.616 1,818 9 24 13 Ma Minh Cam 4th 116 72 1.611 1.904 7th 24 14th Torbjörn Blomdahl 4th 101 65 1.553 1.481 12 24 15th Tayfun Taşdemir 4th 105 71 1.478 2,666 12 24 16 Murat Naci Çoklu 3 105 67 1.567 1,739 11 24 Group phase 17th Jérémy Bury 3 80 47 1.702 1.904 9 12 18th Pierre Soumagne 3 80 55 1.454 1.904 9 12 19th Heo Jung-han 3 80 66 1,212 0.975 8th 12 20th Javier Palazón 2 68 39 1.743 2,352 11 12 21st Kang Dong-koong 2 68 41 1.658 2,500 5 12 22nd Ramón Rodriguez 2 76 48 1,583 1.481 10 12 23 Kim Jae-guen 2 72 46 1.565 1.538 10 12 24 Nguyen Quoc Nguyen 2 59 39 1.512 1.666 11 12 25th Roland Forthomme 2 71 47 1.510 1,600 7th 12 26th Tran Quyet Chien 2 75 52 1,442 1.428 9 12 27 Marc Boingneres 2 62 48 1.291 1.481 7th 12 28 Kim Hyung-kon 2 54 42 1.285 1.428 7th 12 29 Sameh Sidhom 2 63 51 1.235 1.333 13 12 30th Frédéric Caudron 2 71 58 1.224 1,212 5 12 31 Arnim Kahofer 2 66 59 1.118 1.025 10 12 32 Radek Novak 2 72 65 1.107 1.052 8th 12 33 Raimond Burgman 0 59 46 1.282 --- 7th 8th 34 Ryūji Umeda 0 33 26th 1.269 --- 5 8th 35 Pedro Piedrabuena 0 50 45 1.111 --- 7th 8th 36 Ihab El Messery 0 46 42 1.095 --- 6th 8th 37 Jean-Christophe Roux 0 67 62 1.080 --- 6th 8th 38 Hugo Patino 0 57 53 1.075 --- 6th 8th 39 Konstantinos Kokkoris 0 62 58 1.068 --- 10 8th 40 Cédric Melnytschenko 0 45 43 1.046 --- 7th 8th 41 Erick Tellez 0 55 53 1.037 --- 6th 8th 42 Antoine Gholam 0 52 57 0.912 --- 6th 8th 43 Riad Nady 0 57 63 0.904 --- 7th 8th 44 Christian Rudolph 0 45 50 0.900 --- 6th 8th 45 Lars Dunch 0 42 49 0.857 --- 6th 8th 46 Christakis Christoforou 0 40 48 0.833 --- 4th 8th 47 Guillermo Perez 0 50 64 0.781 --- 5 8th 48 Cetin Behzat 0 16 34 0.444 --- 0 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 .)

Web links

• Tournament details on: UMB-carom.org.
• Official schedule. On: UMB-carom.org.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General tournament information. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 (English).  
2. ↑ List of participants. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 (English).  
3. ↑ grouping. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 (English).  
4. ^ Omar Samy: Group results. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .  
5. ^ Omar Samy: Group conclusion table. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .  
6. ↑ Omar Samy: Results of the last sixteen. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .  
7. ↑ Omar Samy: Results quarterfinals. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .  
8. ^ Omar Samy: Results semi-finals and finals. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .  
9. ↑ Omar Samy: Final table. (PDF) UMB, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on November 20, 2016 .