1969 European Free Game Championship

15th European Free Game Championship 1969
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	European Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Nuenen
Opening:	2nd October 1969
Endgame:	5th October 1969
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	José Gálvez
Winner:	Henk Scholte
2nd finalist:	Antoine Schrauwen
3rd place:	Jean Marty
Prize money:	European amateur championship
Records
Best GD:	130.48 Antoine Schrauwen
Best ED:	500.00 Henk Scholte Antoine Schrauwen José Gálvez 000000 000000
Maximum series (HS):	00500 Henk Scholte Antoine Schrauwen José Gálvez 000000 000000
Venue on the map
Nuenen
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The 1969 European Free Game Championship was the 15th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from October 2nd to 5th, 1969 in Nuenen . It was the first free game European championship in the Netherlands.

history

Henk Scholte won his third title in the free game very close to his hometown of Eindhoven . As in 1968, second and third place were taken by Antoine Schrauwen and Jean Marty . Defending champion José Gálvez finished fourth.

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 Henk Scholte 13: 1 3500 31 112.90 500.00 500 2 Antoine Schrauwen 12: 2 3262 25th 130.48 500.00 500 3 Jean Marty 11: 3 3082 28 110.07 250.00 487 4th José Gálvez 6: 8 2063 18th 114.61 500.00 500 5 Klaus pants 6: 8 2042 26th 78.53 250.00 377 6th Roland Dufetelle 4:10 1681 30th 56.03 250.00 415 7th Janus Jacobs 4:10 1242 35 35.48 166.66 466 8th Otto Hitzinger 0:14 249 29 8.58 - 36 Tournament average: 77.12 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. ^ J. Babut du Mares: Le Billard . No. 45 . Brussels January 1970, p. 2-4 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 40 .