Three-cushion world championship for national teams in 1981

1st three-cushion world championship for national teams in 1981
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Mexico City
Opening:	June 12, 1981
Endgame:	June 14, 1981
Attendees:	12 players from 6 nations
Defending champion:	- (1st World Cup)
Winner:	Japan
2nd finalist:	Belgium
3rd place:	France
Prize money:	Expense allowance
Records
Best GD:	1,400 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,500 Junichi Komori
Maximum series (HS):	13 Ludo Dielis000
Venue on the map
Mexico city
	1985 →

The three-cushion world championship for national teams in 1981 was the first edition of this tournament that was played in the three- cushion version of billiards . The tournament took place in Mexico City from June 12-14, 1981 .

Game mode

6 teams took part in the tournament. One team plus the host per continent. Since Africa (Egypt) had not registered a team, a second team from Europe took part. Each team consisted of two players. A double round was played everyone against everyone. In the matches, everyone from each team played against everyone. The game distance was 30 points.

The winner was Japan. Otherwise the results are very incomplete. There are no match reports from the individual matches. In the official results of the UMB, only one end table was printed.

In the event of a tie, the following shall apply:

1. Match points ( MP )
2. Game points ( PP )
3. Team General Average (MGD)

Attendees

nation group Player 1 Player 2  Argentina A. Luis Doyharzabal Luis Manuel Martinez  Belgium A. Raymond Ceulemans Ludo Dielis  France A. Egidio Vierat Richard Bitalis  Japan A. Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori  Mexico A. Gilberto Avalos Carlos Barraza  United States A. Frank Torres George Ashby

Closing table

Closing table space nation SP GUV MP PP Pt. Recording MGD BEMD HS 1 Japan 10 16: 4 57:23 1150 929 1,237 11 2 Belgium 10 15: 5 60:20 1134 920 1.232 13 3 France 10 8:12 36:44 999 1048 0.953 9 4th United States 10 8:12 29:51 948 1109 0.854 8th 5 Mexico 10 7:13 33:47 964 1028 0.937 11 6th Argentina 10 5:15 29:51 904 1039 0.870 9

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. ^ Lambert Carabin: Bulletin Trimestriel . No. 48 . Liege 1981.