Free game world championship 1969

17th Free Game World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Festival hall of the commercial association, Linz
Opening:	20th November 1969
Endgame:	November 23, 1969
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	José Gálvez Manzano
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Jean Marty
3rd place:	José Gálvez
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	178.42 Raymond Ceulemans0
Best ED:	500.00 Raymond Ceulemans Jean Marty Henk Scholte0 0000000 0000000
Maximum series (HS):	00500 Raymond Ceulemans Jean Marty Henk Scholte0 0000000 0000000
Venue on the map
Linz
← 1964

The free game world championship in 1969 was the 17th and last UMB world championship in the free game . The tournament took place from November 20th to 23rd in Linz , Austria.

history

Even before the first thrust of this world championship, some officials spoke out in favor of removing the free game from the program of the world championships. So it turned out later. Since with the strength of the top players at the time, everyone was actually able to finish a game in one shot, the victory could also be achieved with a lot of luck. Despite everything, the world championship in Linz was a great success. There were broadcasts on Austrian television and the audience interest was very high with up to 600 daily.

Before the tournament began, there was no clear favorite. Several players, at the head of Raymond Ceulemans, the defending champion José Gálvez Manzano, the European champion Henk Scholte and Jean Marty were considered winners mainly by experts. So it was that no player could finish the tournament undefeated. After defeats to Klaus Hose in the second game and Franz Stenzel in the fourth game, nobody expected Ceulemans to be the winner. But with convincing victories against fellow favorites Marty, Galvez and Scholte, he won the remaining games and was tied with three other players by the best GD of 178.42 , which also meant a new world record, for the first time and thus for the last time world champion in the free Lot. The tournament average of 81.60 has never been reached either .

Tournament mode

Round robin mode was played with nine participants. The stabbing game was no longer played. If there was a tie, the better general average (GD) counted. Extended series were no longer counted. 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	Raymond Ceulemans	12	3398	19th	178.42	500.00	500
2	Jean Marty	12	3418	25th	136.72	500.00	500
3	José Gálvez	12	3206	27	118.74	250.00	499
4th	Osvaldo Berardi	12	3137	34	92.26	250.00	475
5	Henk Scholte	7th	2842	18th	157.88	500.00	500
6th	Franz Stenzel	7th	2079	41	50.70	250.00	499
7th	Klaus pants	6th	2425	29	83.62	250.00	457
8th	Heinrich Weingartner	4th	1773	34	52.14	62.50	264
9	Masanori Matsuzaki	0	735	55	13.36	---	143
Tournament average : 81.60

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Willi Schipplik: Billard Sport . 47th volume, no. 12 . Krefeld December 1969, p. 178-181 .