Three-cushion world championship for juniors

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Three-cushion world championship
for juniors
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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 Korea SouthSouth Korea
Records
Most wins: 4 ×
Kim Haeng-jik Korea SouthSouth Korea
Best GD: 2.022
Cho Myung-woo 2018, IzmirKorea SouthSouth Korea TurkeyTurkey
Best ED: 5,000
Cho Myung-woo 2018, IzmirKorea SouthSouth Korea TurkeyTurkey
Maximum series (HS): 16
Carlos Anguita 2018, IzmirSpainSpain TurkeyTurkey
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:

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 Yes No 3 × 30s
from 8el finals Single, knockout system 35 No No 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 SpainSpain Gandía GreeceGreece Filipos Kasidokostas 1.276 SpainSpain Carlos Crespo 0.955 SpainSpain Rubén Legazpi 0.909
SpainSpain José-Maria Más 0.857
2 2002 FranceFrance Romans-sur-Isere GreeceGreece Filipos Kasidokostas 1.581 FranceFrance Jérémy Bury 1.178 BelgiumBelgium Frédéric Mottet 1.191
SpainSpain Carlos Crespo 0.995
Junior World Championship
No. year place winner GD place 2 GD Semi-finalists GD
01 2003 BelgiumBelgium Eeklo GreeceGreece Filipos Kasidokostas 1,324 BelgiumBelgium Steve van Acker 0.825 VenezuelaVenezuela Merlin Romero 1.032
NetherlandsNetherlands Erwin van den Heuvel 0.976
02 2005 SpainSpain Paiporta (Valencia) SpainSpain Javier Palazón 1,270 Costa RicaCosta Rica Erick Tellez 0.895 EgyptEgypt Sameh Sidhom 0.951
BelgiumBelgium Steven van Acker 0.828
03 2007 SpainSpain Los Alcázares Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Haeng-jik 0.910 SpainSpain Javier Palazón 1.354 NetherlandsNetherlands Glenn Hofman 0.961
SpainSpain Antonio Ortiz 0896
04 2008 BelgiumBelgium Ukkel SpainSpain Javier Palazón 1.274 NetherlandsNetherlands Glenn Hofman 1.088 Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Haeng-jik 0.916
EgyptEgypt Sameh Sidhom 1.123
05 2009 BelgiumBelgium Lions SpainSpain Javier Palazón 1.252 NetherlandsNetherlands Glenn Hofman 1.159 SpainSpain Antonio Ortiz 1.093
Korea SouthSouth Korea Oh Tae-jun 0.881
06 2010 NetherlandsNetherlands Hoogeveen Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Haeng-jik 1,231 BelgiumBelgium Kenny Miatton 0.840 SpainSpain Rubén Fernandez-Bermejo 0.825
SpainSpain David Martinez 1.041
07 2011 GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala City Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Haeng-jik 1,211 Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Jun-tae 0.954 SpainSpain David Zapata 1.107
ColombiaColombia Alejandro Piza 1.071
08 2012 SpainSpain San Javier Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Haeng-jik 1.638 TurkeyTurkey Ömer Karakurt 1.343 Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Jun-tae 1.245
ColombiaColombia José García 1.178
09 2013 GreeceGreece Corinth ColombiaColombia José García 1.287 Korea SouthSouth Korea Jung Hae-chang 1,099 Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 1.104
EcuadorEcuador Pedro Reyes 0.976
10 2014 NetherlandsNetherlands Sluiskil FranceFrance Adrien Tachoire 1,096 Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 1.205 TurkeyTurkey Berkay Karakurt 1.391
Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Jun-tae 1.192
11 2015 Korea SouthSouth Korea Guri Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Tae-kwan 1,250 Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Jun-tae 1.286 FranceFrance Adrien Tachoire 0.983
Korea SouthSouth Korea Shin Jung-ju 1.396
12 2016 EgyptEgypt el-Guna Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 1.276 Korea SouthSouth Korea Shin Jung-ju 1,270 Korea SouthSouth Korea Han Jiseung 1.051
SpainSpain Andres Carrion 0.879
13 2017 SpainSpain Narejos SpainSpain Carlos Anguita 1.029 Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Beom-yeol 1.070 Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 1.265
FranceFrance Gwendal Marechal 0.992
14th 2018 TurkeyTurkey Izmir Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 2.022 Korea SouthSouth Korea Jang Dae-hyun 1,300 SpainSpain Carlos Anguita 1.163
ItalyItaly Allesio d'Agata 1.180
15th 2019 SpainSpain Valencia Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Myung-woo 1,792 Korea SouthSouth Korea Ko Jun-Seo 0.927 Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Hwa-woo 1.113
ColombiaColombia Cristian Montoya 0.751
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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).