Georgian Snooker Championship
The Georgian Snooker Championship is a national tournament to determine the Georgian champion in the snooker billiards discipline , which has been held annually since 2016. With three out of four possible titles, Nodar Bakradze is the tournament's record winner.
history
The tournament, hosted by the Georgian Snooker Federation, took place for the first time in 2016 with 16 players, when Sandro Kadagidze became the first winner of the tournament with a 7-4 win over Nodar Bakradze . Bakradze was able to win the tournament with a 4-2 victory over Lekso Jangulashvili a year later in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as one of 24 participants and defended both in 2018 in the Metropool in Tbilisi against Gocha Kavtaradze 4-0 as well as in 2019 The Star Snooker Academy, located in Tbilisi, again won his title 4: 1 against Lekso Jangulashvili, while despite the low level of awareness of the sport in Georgia, the number of participants rose year on year to 28 in 2018 and 35 in 2019.
In 2019, after the number of participants had been reduced to 16 through previous games, the title was played in the knockout system from the round of 16 . Up to and including the quarterfinals, the game was played in the best of 5 frames mode , followed by the semi-finals and the final in the best of 7 frames mode .
Title holder
In four editions so far, four players have made it to the final at least once. The previous finals are listed below.
| year | winner | Result | finalist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sandro Kadagidze | 7: 4 | Nodar Bakradze |
| 2017 | Nodar Bakradze | 4: 2 | Lekso Jangulashvili |
| 2018 | Nodar Bakradze | 4-0 | Gocha Kavtaradze |
| 2019 | Nodar Bakradze | 4: 1 | Lekso Jangulashvili |
Ranking list
| space | player |
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Final participation |
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| 1 | Nodar Bakradze | 3 | 1 | 4th |
| 2 | Sandro Kadagidze | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Lekso Jangulashvili | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 4th | Gocha Kavtaradze | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bakradze Claims a Hat Trick of Georgian Snooker Titles. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , November 5, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Ron Florax: Tournaments In Georgian Amateur Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Day: The Amateur Angel - Bakradze Defends In Georgia. The Cue View, October 8, 2018, accessed November 11, 2019 .