Free game world championship 1929

2. Free game world championship
Game of Edmond Soussa (EGY), standing at the table, against Théo Moons (BEL) sitting at the top right of the table.
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Shepheards Hotel, Cairo
Opening:	March 18, 1929
Endgame:	March 22, 1929
Attendees:	6th
Defending champion:	Edmond Soussa
Winner:	Edmond Soussa
2nd finalist:	Théo Moons
3rd place:	Raimundo Vives
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	29.76 Edmond Soussa
Best ED:	55.55 Raimundo Vives
Maximum series (HS):	0450 Raimundo Vives0
Venue on the map
Cairo
← 1928	1930 →

The free game world championship in 1929 was the second UIFAB world championship in the free game, a variant of billiards . The tournament took place from March 18-22 in Cairo , Egypt.

history

The world championship in Cairo met with great audience interest. Local hero Edmond Soussa was able to defend his title from last year. He remains undefeated, but had to surrender two world records to third-placed Raimundo Vives from Spain. Against the Dutchman Harry Verbeek, Vives finished the game in the ninth recording with the new world record average of 55.55 . He also achieved the new record high series of 450 in this match. Second place, with just one defeat against Soussa, went to Belgian Théo Moons .

For this world championship, Prince Abbas Ibrahim Halim, who was President of the Egyptian Billiards Federation, donated a challenge cup. The cup, a large bronze bowl on a marble plinth, was designed by the eventual winner Edmond Soussa and was named Challenge des Pharaohs .

Tournament mode

The whole tournament was played in the round robin system. In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

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

Closing table

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
Pts.	Achieved collisions
Recording	Required attempts
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Edmond Soussa	10-0	2500	84	29.76	41.66	154
2	Théo Moons	8: 2	2397	106	22.61	31.25	276
3	Raimundo Vives	6: 4	1955	100	19.55	55.55	450
4th	Jacques Davin	4: 6	1758	141	12.46	18.51	138
5	Rudolphe Agassiz	2: 8	1890	124	15.24	19.23	175
6th	Harry Verbeek	0:10	1141	100	11.41	---	82
Tournament average: 17.77

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 9th year, no. 1 . Cologne May 1929, p. 19 .