Free game world championship 1930

3rd Free Game World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Coliseum, Barcelona
Opening:	February 24, 1930
Endgame:	March 1, 1930
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Edmond Soussa
Winner:	Edmond Soussa
2nd finalist:	Théo Moons
3rd place:	Alfredo Ferraz
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	033.44 Edmond Soussa
Best ED:	166.66 Juan Butron
Maximum series (HS):	491 Juan Butron000
Venue on the map
Barcelona
← 1929	1931 →

The free game world championship in 1930 was the third UIFAB world championship in the free game. The tournament took place from February 24th to March 1st in Barcelona , Spain.

history

For the first time a world championship in the free game with 10 participants was played. All old world records were broken again in this tournament. In the preliminary round, the Spaniard Juan Butrón managed to improve the world record of his countryman Raimundo Vives in the best individual game (BED) to 166.66 . In the final round succeeded Butrón in the match against January Dommering in the fifth recording the game with a shot series of 491 to finish. That was also a new world record in the highest series (HS). The new and old world champion Edmond Soussa set the third world record . He improved his old world record in general average (GD) from 1928 to 33.44 .

Tournament mode

It was played in two groups of five players in a preliminary round in round robin mode. The last two in each group were eliminated. The remaining eight players played the world championship against each other in round robin mode. The games against the eliminated players were not counted in the final round. In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

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

Preliminary round

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)

Preliminary group A

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Théo Moons	8th	2000	77	25.97	50.00	248
2	Edmond Soussa	6th	1744	79	22.07	35.71	164
3	Jan Dommering	4th	1523	120	12.69	26.31	162
4th	Ludwig Meyer	2	1266	73	17.34	45.45	284
5	Jan W. Verloop	0	1103	122	9.04	---	130
Group average: 16.21

Preliminary group B

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Raimundo Vives	6th	1939	56	34.62	45.45	420
2	Juan Butrón	4th	1842	71	23.94	166.66	483
3	Alfredo Ferraz	4th	1860	104	17.88	41.66	336
4th	Jean Albert	4th	1602	102	15.70	11.36	223
5	Rudolphe Agassiz	2	1316	97	13.56	16.12	177
Group average : 19.90

Closing table

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Edmond Soussa	12	3244	97	33.44	62.50	217
2	Théo Moons	10	3108	102	30.47	100.00	292
3	Alfredo Ferraz	10	3148	132	23.66	50.00	365
4th	Juan Butrón	8th	3293	112	29.40	100.00	491
5	Raimundo Vives	6th	2699	94	28.71	125.00	463
6th	Jean Albert	6th	3005	120	25.04	29.41	211
7th	Jan Dommering	2	1831	101	18.12	26.31	162
8th	Ludwig Meyer	2	2104	144	14.61	14.28	163
Tournament average: 24.79 (final round)
9	Rudolphe Agassiz	2	1316	97	13.56	16.12	177
10	Jan W. Verloop	0	1103	122	9.04	---	130
Tournament Average: 21.37 (Overall)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Robert Court: Free Game World Cup 1930 in Barcelona . In: German Amateur Billard Association (Ed.): Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . 9th year, no. 12 . Self-published, Cologne April 1930, p. 294-296 .