European Free Game Championship 1950

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1st free game European championship 1950
Tournament dates
Tournament type: European Championship
Tournament format: Round robin
Organizer: CEB
Tournament details
Venue: Hotel Münchner Hof,
Vienna AustriaAustria
Opening: April 27, 1950
Endgame: May 1, 1950
Attendees: 9
Winner: NetherlandsNetherlands Kees de Ruijter
2nd finalist: BelgiumBelgium Clement van Hassel
3rd place: NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Metz
Prize money: European amateur championship
Records
Best GD: 088.21 Clement van HasselBelgiumBelgium
Best ED: 500.00 Clement van HasselBelgiumBelgium
Maximum series (HS): 000500 Clement van HasselBelgiumBelgium
Venue on the map
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The free-game European championship in 1950 was the first tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from April 27 to May 1, 1950 in Vienna . It was the first free-game European championship in Austria . The tournament was part of the 1949/50 season.

history

World championships in the free game have been held since 1928. The first European championship in this discipline took place in Vienna. German players were not yet admitted to this championship. The Dutchman Kees de Ruijter surprisingly won this title ahead of the reigning Belgian World Champion Clement van Hassel , who set three new Eupa records in GD, BED and HS.

mode

The game was played in a final round "everyone against everyone" up to 500 points.

  1. MP = match points
  2. GD = general average
  3. HS = maximum series

Closing table

Closing table
space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS
1 NetherlandsNetherlands Kees de Ruijter 14: 2 3660 54 67.77 166.66 479
2 BelgiumBelgium Clement van Hassel 12: 4 3264 37 81.21 500.00 500
3 NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Metz 12: 4 3463 108 32.06 55.55 452
4th BelgiumBelgium René Gabriëls 10: 6 2923 50 58.46 125.00 487
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Klaus Nussberger 8: 8 2835 77 36.81 83.33 281
6th AustriaAustria Ernst Reicher 6:10 3161 88 35.92 100.00 285
7th FranceFrance Jean Galmiche 6:10 3000 84 35.71 45.45 347
8th FranceFrance Roland Dufetelle 2:14 2457 89 27.60 35.71 199
9 AustriaAustria Fritz Vesely 2:14 2099 105 19.99 31.25 210
Tournament average: 38.81
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. ^ Robert Court: Billard-Zeitung . 27th year, no. 1 . Cologne June 1950, p. 16 .
  2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 31 .