Three-cushion world championship for national teams 2006

20th World Championship of three for national teams 2006
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Festhalle, Viersen
Opening:	February 9, 2006
Endgame:	February 12, 2006
Attendees:	40 players from 18 nations
Defending champion:	Sweden
Winner:	Sweden
2nd finalist:	Germany
3rd place:	Netherlands Turkey
Prize money:	Expense allowance
Records
Best GD:	2,024 Daniel Sánchez
Best ED:	3,333 Dick Jaspers
Maximum series (HS):	15 • Christian Rudolph • Raimond Burgman000 00000
Venue on the map
Viersen
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The three-cushion world championship for national teams in 2006 was the 20th edition of this tournament, which has been held annually since 1981 in the three- cushion version of billiards . It took place from February 9 to 12, 2006 in Viersen ; - since 1990 permanent venue of the World Cup.

Tournament commentary

In the final, defending champions Sweden, Torbjörn Blomdahl / Michael Nilsson and the first team from Germany ( Christian Rudolph / Martin Horn ) made short work of them. The show of strength that Rudolph had made in the semi-final match against the Turkish Semih Saygıner took its toll. He lost against Sweden's number 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl clearly in three sets with 15: 3, 15: 4 and 15: 4. It didn't help that Martin Horn was 2-1 ahead after the 3rd set. The 4th movement was no longer started. Blohmdahl's victory had decided the final, on points, prematurely. The Germans could look forward to the silver medal.

The second semi-final, against the Dutchman Raimond Burgman , was decided by Nilsson's clear 3-0 victory (15:12, 15:13 and 15: 8). At this point, Blomdahl was also 2-0 ahead, a third set was obsolete because of the Swedes' points.

In the quarter-finals, the draw included the following games: Netherlands / Spain, Japan / Sweden, Belgium / Turkey (winners from 2003 and 2004). The first German team had to play against Denmark. In these games there was a war of nerves at both tables. Rudolph had to go the full distance of five sets in his game against Tonny Carlsen. Only the last ball brought the Cologne man victory. He later commented on his game with the words:

"I didn't know exactly what it looked like, but I knew I had to win."

Horn also had a hard time with his opponent. He had to play the full distance and was already hopelessly behind against Dion Nelin , with a score of 2-2 sets in the fifth set. He managed to turn the game around and win with 15:13.

With a clear 3-0 win in the parallel game, Daniel Sánchez from Spain returned the favor for the main round defeat against former world champion Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands. His teammate Carlos Crespo did it the other way around. In his game he couldn't book a single set for himself and gave a total of 20 points to Burgman. Since Jaspers only surrendered 11 points to Sanchez, it was 2: 2 and 3: 3 in sentence points after both games. A tie; - the better ball ratio had to decide. With 79:70 for the Dutch, who came one round further.

It was just as exciting between Turkey and Belgium. The Near East had to worry about getting into the next round until the end. Jozef Philipoom from Belgium finally bought Turkey's ticket by missing his match point. The Turkish champion Saygıner made the first set of a defensive battle in his game against the Belgian champion Francis Forton. It took Forton 28  shots to win the sentence. Then the Turk found his usual level of play and dealt with Forton with 15: 3 in 2 and 15: 7 in 4 shots. In the fourth and last set he took 5 shots, but won 15: 7. With a ball ratio of 70:45, that gave him a point advantage of 25 points. Yüksel was 49:58 behind at this point after the 4th set, but Philipoom would have had to make up 16 points in a game to 15 points, which was not possible. The tournament management stopped the game and the Belgians were eliminated.

Game mode

If the tournament is played with 20 teams and fewer teams register, B-teams will be admitted. These are awarded as follows:

1. Title holder (here: Sweden)
2. Organizing nation (here: Germany)
3. Next nation according to world rankings (here: -)

The game was played on two match billiards in Viersen. Each team consisted of two players. The best eight nations in the world rankings are set and go straight to the main round. The eleven other nations plus the second team of the defending champions Sweden competed against each other in groups of three in the preliminary round. The first in the group continue to play in the main round.

It was played on points in the set system - in the group phase "Best of 3" in groups of three teams, from the quarter-finals "Best of 5". No 3rd place has been played since 2004. So there were 2 bronze medals. The shot clock was set to 40 seconds, with the possibility for each player to take a time-out of 40 seconds per game. In the event of a tie, the following shall apply:

1. Match points ( MP )
2. Sentence ratio ( SV )
3. Team General Average (MGD)

Attendees

Group division 1/2 nation group Player 1 Player 2  Egypt B. Ihab el Messery Mohammed Zayed  Belgium * 1 G Francis Forton Jozef Philipoom  Denmark * 1 H Dion Nelin Tonny Carlsen  Germany 1 * 1 G Christian Rudolph Martin Horn Germany 2 D. Jens Eggers Thorsten Frings  Ecuador C. Luis Aveiga Javier Teran  France C. Jérémy Bury Christophe Duval  Greece A. Filipos Kasidokostas Nikos Polychronopoulos  Japan * 1 E. Hideaki Kobayashi Ryūji Umeda  South Korea C. Kim Kyung-roul Hwang Durk-hee

Group division 2/2 nation group Player 1 Player 2  Mexico A. Luis Avila Guillermo Sosa  Netherlands * 1 F. Dick Jaspers Raimond Burgman  Austria B. Andreas Efler Andreas Horvath  Portugal D. Rui Manuel Costa Jorge Theriaga  Sweden 1 * 1 E. Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson Sweden 2 D. Nalle Ohlsson Bjorn Lohmander  Spain * 1 F. Daniel Sánchez Carlos Crespo  Czech Republic B. Ivo Gasdoz Radovan Hajek  Turkey * 1 H Semih Saygıner Adnan Yüksel  Vietnam A. Vinh Ly-The Vu Duong-Ahn

annotation

^{* 1} nation was seeded for the main round of the group stage

Group stage

Preliminary round

The first in the group moved on to the main round.

Group A

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Greece 2 1-1-0 3: 1 6: 4 2 Mexico 2 0-2-0 2: 2 6: 4 3 Vietnam 2 0-1-1 1: 3 3: 7

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 0February 9, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Mexico 1: 1 Vietnam 0February 9, 2006, 6:00 p.m. Vietnam 0: 2 Greece February 10, 2006, 11:00 am Greece 1: 1 Mexico

Group B

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Austria 2 2-0-0 4-0 8: 1 2 Egypt 2 0-1-1 1: 3 4: 7 3 Czech Republic 2 0-1-1 1: 3 3: 7

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 0February 9, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Egypt 1: 1 Czech Republic 0February 9, 2006, 6:00 p.m. Czech Republic 0: 2 Austria February 10, 2006, 11:00 am Austria 2 : 0 Egypt

Group C

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Ecuador 2 1-1-0 3: 1 6: 3 2 Korea 2 0-2-0 2: 2 6: 5 3 France 2 0-1-1 1: 3 3: 7

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 0February 9, 2006, 12:00 Korea 1: 1 Ecuador 0February 9, 2006, 4:00 p.m. France 0: 2 Ecuador 0February 9, 2006, 8:00 p.m. France 1: 1 Korea

Group D

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Portugal 2 2-0-0 4-0 8-0 2 Germany 2 2 1-0-1 2: 2 4: 6 3 Sweden 2 2 0-0-2 0: 4 2: 8

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 0February 9, 2006, 12:00 Germany 2 2 : 0 Sweden 2 0February 9, 2006, 4:00 p.m. Portugal 2 : 0 Sweden 2 0February 9, 2006, 8:00 p.m. Portugal 2 : 0 Germany 2

Main round

The nations marked with ^{* 1} were set for the main round and supplemented by the four group winners of the preliminary round.

Group E

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Sweden 1 * 1 2 2-0-0 4-0 8: 2 2 Japan * 1 2 1-0-1 2: 2 5: 5 3 Portugal 2 0-0-2 0: 4 2: 8

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 February 10, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Japan 2 : 0 Portugal February 10, 2006, 6:00 p.m. Sweden 1 2 : 0 Japan February 11, 2006, 11:00 am Portugal 0: 2 Sweden 1

Group F.

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Netherlands * 1 2 2-0-0 4-0 8: 2 2 Spain * 1 2 0-1-1 1: 3 4: 6 3 Austria 2 0-1-1 1: 3 3: 7

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 February 10, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Spain 1: 1 Austria February 10, 2006, 6:00 p.m. Netherlands 2 : 0 Spain February 11, 2006, 11:00 am Austria 0: 2 Netherlands

Group G

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Germany 1 * 1 2 1-1-0 3: 1 6: 2 2 Belgium * 1 2 1-1-0 3: 1 6: 3 3 Ecuador 2 0-0-2 0: 4 1: 8

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 February 10, 2006, 4:00 p.m. Belgium 2 : 0 Ecuador February 10, 2006, 8:00 p.m. Germany 1 1: 1 Belgium February 11, 2006, 1:30 p.m. Ecuador 0: 2 Germany 1

Group H.

Closing table space nation Sp. GUV MP SV / PP 1 Turkey * 1 2 1-1-0 3: 1 6: 3 2 Denmark * 1 2 0-2-0 2: 2 5: 5 3 Greece 2 0-1-1 1: 3 4: 7

Results date Nation 1 MP Nation 2 February 10, 2006, 4:00 p.m. Denmark 1: 1 Greece February 10, 2006, 8:00 p.m. Greece 0: 2 Turkey February 11, 2006, 1:30 p.m. Turkey 1: 1 Denmark

Final round

	Quarterfinals Best of 5				Semi-finals Best of 5				Final Best of 5
	February 11, 5:00 p.m.
	Netherlands	2
					February 12, 11:30 am
	Spain	0
					Netherlands	0
	February 11, 8:00 p.m.
					Sweden	2
	Japan	0
									February 12, 14:00
	Sweden	2
									Sweden	2
	February 11, 8:00 p.m.
									Germany 1	0
	Belgium	0
					February 12, 11:30 am
	Turkey	2
					Turkey	0
	February 11, 5:00 p.m.
					Germany 1	2
	Germany 1	2
	Denmark	0

Closing table

Closing table phase space nation Sp. GUV MP PP SV Pt. Recording MGD BEMD final 1 Sweden 1 5 5-0-0 10-0 9: 2 22: 7 378 266 1.421 1,810 2 Germany 1 5 3-1-1 7: 3 8: 2 19:11 370 262 1.412 1.680 Semi- finals 3 Netherlands 4th 3-0-1 6: 2 5: 3 11:10 285 173 1.674 1.975 Turkey 4th 2-1-1 5: 3 5: 4 12:12 310 226 1.371 1.510 quarter- final 5 Spain 3 0-1-2 1: 5 2: 4 7: 9 182 144 1.263 1,794 5 Belgium 3 1-1-1 3: 3 4: 3 10: 8 221 171 1.292 1.541 5 Japan 3 1-0-2 2: 4 3: 4 8:10 196 166 1.180 1.269 5 Denmark 3 0-2-1 2: 4 2: 4 9: 1 233 178 1.308 1,313 Group phase 9 Greece 4th 1-2-1 4: 4 4: 4 10:11 256 176 1.454 1.756 10 Austria 4th 2-1-1 5: 3 5: 3 11: 8 240 214 1.121 1.150 11 Portugal 4th 2-0-2 4: 4 4: 4 10: 8 233 190 1,226 1.538 12 Ecuador 4th 1-1-2 3: 5 3: 5 7:11 204 178 1.146 1,200 13 Mexico 2 0-2-0 2: 2 2: 2 6: 4 122 95 1.284 1.488 14th Korea 2 0-2-0 2: 2 2: 2 6: 5 122 101 1.207 1.425 15th Germany 2 2 1-0-1 2: 2 2: 2 4: 6 111 123 0.902 1.074 16 Egypt 2 0-1-1 1: 3 1: 3 4: 7 122 127 0.960 0.985 17th Czech Republic 2 0-1-1 1: 3 1: 3 3: 7 106 123 0.861 0.942 18th France 2 0-1-1 1: 3 1: 3 3: 7 105 110 0.954 1.161 19th Vietnam 2 0-1-1 1: 3 1: 3 3: 7 96 86 1.116 1.078 20th Sweden 2 2 0-0-2 0: 4 0: 4 2: 8 103 117 0.800 -

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

• Homepage of the three-cushion World Cup 2006 in Viersen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Results (PDF; 2.3 MB) February 12, 2006. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved on March 10, 2013.
2. ↑ Commentary semi-final / final on Viersen.Billiard-WorldChampionship.org. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
3. ↑ Commentary quarter-finals on Viersen.Billiard-WorldChampionship.org. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Schedule and tournament mode ( German ) Viersen.Billiard-WorldChampionship.org. February 9, 2006. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved on March 10, 2013.
5. ^ The teams ( German ) Viersen.Billiard-WorldChampionship.org. February 10, 2006. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved on March 10, 2013.