Three-cushion world championship for juniors

Three-cushion world championship for juniors
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	Round robin / knock-out
Association / host:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	changing
Playing time:	since 2001
Current title holder:	Cho Myung-woo
Records
Most wins: 4 ×
Kim Haeng-jik
Best GD: 2.022
Cho Myung-woo 2018, Izmir
Best ED: 5,000
Cho Myung-woo 2018, Izmir
Maximum series (HS): 16
Carlos Anguita 2018, Izmir
Position map
see link above right

Winner 2016: Shin Jung-ju (silver), Cho Myung-woo (gold), Han Jiseung (bronze) and Andres Carrion (bronze) (from left)

The three-cushion world championship for juniors is a carom tournament that has been held since 2001.

history

After the interest in the three cushion increased at the turn of the millennium, the tournament orientations also increased in the junior sector. The calls for a World Cup got louder, especially in Spain .

Already in the early 1990s there were efforts among the southern Europeans to establish this tournament. However, they failed because of the veto of other nations. In 2001 a second attempt was made, which did not lead to the desired goal of a world championship, but at least to a world championship on trial. The tournament was named "World Challenge Cup Juniors" (WCCJ). The WCCJ was then played twice with 19 out of 20 planned players each. The games went over the distance of 40 points. A group phase with four groups of 5 or 4 players each and a final round with quarter and semi-finals were played.

After these two tournaments had run extremely successfully, the UMB , the world association for carom, decided in 2003 to approve the longed-for world championship. The alignment mode, which had been tried and tested up to then, was changed to the effect that the number of participants was limited to 16 players and the sentence system "Best of 3" was given preference to 15 points, which was then increased to "Best of 5" once in 2007. Since 2012 there has been the one-set game on 35 points again.

The Greek Filipos Kasidokostas was the outstanding player of the tournament in the early stages. He not only won the first three titles, but also set all records: the general average ( GD) of 1.581 (2002), the best individual average (BED) of 3.076 (2002) and the highest series (HS) of 15 (2002) . However, the Greek had to share this record with Frédéric Mottet from Belgium . In 2009, the Spaniard Javier Palazón also drew three titles. Ten years after the HS of Kasidokostas and Mottet, the Korean Kim Haeng-jik was also able to achieve an HS of 15 in 2012, which was only improved to 16 points in 2018 by the Spanish defending champion Carlos Anguita . The Korean's victory made him overtake Kasidokostas. He has one more title than the Greek. He also improved the best GD of Kasidokostas since 2002 to 1,638. Since its inception, the tournament has only recognized the three named players as winners. This only changed in 2013.

The tournament is held annually in September or October (exceptions were in 2004 and 2006 when the World Cup did not take place). German participants were Ronny Lindemann (2001, 5th place), Philipp Leu (2002, 13th place), Marcel Decker (2005, 9th place) and Dustin Jäschke (2010, 8th place). The only player from Switzerland was Alain Houlman (2002, 19th place; 2003, 15th place; 2005, 16th place), Austria has not yet been able to place a player.

Some of the junior players then made the leap into the elite of three-cushion players. You regularly play in international tournaments. The names were Jérémy Bury from France , Sameh Sidhom from Egypt , Javier Palazón from Spain and Glenn Hofman from the Netherlands .

In 2014, the tournament average in Sluiskil was above 1 (1.109) for the first time. Cho Myung-woo set his own record in ED of 4,166 in 2017 the following year, playing a game of 5,000 ED (25-3 in 5 takes).

Statutes and rules

Any player who has not yet reached the age of 21 on September 1st of the World Cup is eligible to participate, with the exception of the defending champion, who may not have reached the age of 22 at this time.

Attendees

The 16 participants are sent by the associations as follows:

• 1 × current title holder, if not available the UMB provides a wildcard player
• 6 × CEB - Region Europe
• 4 × CPB - America region
• 3 × ACBC - Asia region
• 1 × ACC - Africa region
• 1 × Wildcard organizing association

Group stage game system

In the group stage, the following group division applies:

Group draw

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Title holder	CEB 1	CPB 1	ACBC 1
CEB 2	ACBC 2	CEB 3	CPB 2
ACBC 2	CPB 3	CEB 4	CEB 5
CPB 4	CEB 6	WC	CEB 7

In the group stage, the game is played to 25 points with a kick without penalties . The first two in the group make it to the quarter-finals of the main round. Are crucial for the placement

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

If a player ends the match in the first shot, the other player has the right to equalize. If player two also ends the match in one shot, both players get 2 points.

Game system final round

The final round will be played from the quarter-finals, with eight players. There is no match for 3rd place, there are two bronze medalists. Unlike in the group stage, the final round of the last eight is played according to the knockout system. The distance is 35 points, until 2019 with a push but with penalties. The player with the highest streak wins the match.

New regulations from January 1, 2020

round	mode	distance	Follow-up	Penalty	Shot clock
Group stage	Group of 3, Round Robin	25th			3 × 30s
from 8el finals	Single, knockout system	35			3 × 30s

Time limit

Until 2019 there was a time limit of 40 seconds ( countdown mode) per shot with a light warning system after 30 seconds throughout the tournament . Then an acoustic signal sounds and the balls are placed on the opponent again. In 2020 (see table) the shot clock was reduced to 30 seconds (warning tone after 20 seconds).

Closing table

For the final table all results of all players are used and evaluated as follows:

1. Match points
2. General average (points that are scored in the penalty are not included in the rating)
3. Maximum series (points that are achieved in the penalty are not included in the rating)

Prize money

The organizer is free to offer prize money or gifts. There is no general agreement on this.

Tournament statistics

The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament.

World Challenge Cup Juniors
No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	Semi-finalists	GD
1	2001	Gandía	Filipos Kasidokostas	1.276	Carlos Crespo	0.955	Rubén Legazpi	0.909
							José-Maria Más	0.857
2	2002	Romans-sur-Isere	Filipos Kasidokostas	1.581	Jérémy Bury	1.178	Frédéric Mottet	1.191
							Carlos Crespo	0.995
Junior World Championship
No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	Semi-finalists	GD
01	2003	Eeklo	Filipos Kasidokostas	1,324	Steve van Acker	0.825	Merlin Romero	1.032
							Erwin van den Heuvel	0.976
02	2005	Paiporta (Valencia)	Javier Palazón	1,270	Erick Tellez	0.895	Sameh Sidhom	0.951
							Steven van Acker	0.828
03	2007	Los Alcázares	Kim Haeng-jik	0.910	Javier Palazón	1.354	Glenn Hofman	0.961
							Antonio Ortiz	0896
04	2008	Ukkel	Javier Palazón	1.274	Glenn Hofman	1.088	Kim Haeng-jik	0.916
							Sameh Sidhom	1.123
05	2009	Lions	Javier Palazón	1.252	Glenn Hofman	1.159	Antonio Ortiz	1.093
							Oh Tae-jun	0.881
06	2010	Hoogeveen	Kim Haeng-jik	1,231	Kenny Miatton	0.840	Rubén Fernandez-Bermejo	0.825
							David Martinez	1.041
07	2011	Guatemala City	Kim Haeng-jik	1,211	Kim Jun-tae	0.954	David Zapata	1.107
							Alejandro Piza	1.071
08	2012	San Javier	Kim Haeng-jik	1.638	Ömer Karakurt	1.343	Kim Jun-tae	1.245
							José García	1.178
09	2013	Corinth	José García	1.287	Jung Hae-chang	1,099	Cho Myung-woo	1.104
							Pedro Reyes	0.976
10	2014	Sluiskil	Adrien Tachoire	1,096	Cho Myung-woo	1.205	Berkay Karakurt	1.391
							Kim Jun-tae	1.192
11	2015	Guri	Kim Tae-kwan	1,250	Kim Jun-tae	1.286	Adrien Tachoire	0.983
							Shin Jung-ju	1.396
12	2016	el-Guna	Cho Myung-woo	1.276	Shin Jung-ju	1,270	Han Jiseung	1.051
							Andres Carrion	0.879
13	2017	Narejos	Carlos Anguita	1.029	Lee Beom-yeol	1.070	Cho Myung-woo	1.265
							Gwendal Marechal	0.992
14th	2018	Izmir	Cho Myung-woo	2.022	Jang Dae-hyun	1,300	Carlos Anguita	1.163
							Allesio d'Agata	1.180
15th	2019	Valencia	Cho Myung-woo	1,792	Ko Jun-Seo	0.927	Cho Hwa-woo	1.113
							Cristian Montoya	0.751
16	2021	Antalya

Swell:

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1611-1621 .
2. ↑ Rules of the Junior World Championships 2010. (PDF; 163 kB) UMB , July 12, 2010, archived from the original on December 20, 2010 ; Retrieved November 4, 2012 .  
3. ↑ Rules of the Junior World Championship 2018 (PDF) UMB, December 23, 2018, archived from the original on October 1, 2019 ; accessed on October 14, 2019 (English).  

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