Savvidi Cup

The Savvidi Cup ( Russian Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди Meschdunarodny turnir na pris Potschetnogo presidenta FBS jufo II Sawwidi ; German  International tournament for the prize of the Honorary President of PBS SFD II Sawwidi ) is a billiards tournament in Rostov-on-Don ( Russia ), which has been held annually since 2012.

The tournament played in the combined pyramid discipline is the most highly endowed tournament in Russian billiards .

Record winner with three titles is the Kyrgyz Dastan Lepschakow .

history

The tournament, named after Ivan Savidi , the honorary president of the South Russian Billiards Association, was held for the first time in December 2012. The winner was the Ukrainian Pavlo Radionov . After the first five editions were won by five different players, the Kyrgyz Dastan Lepschakow secured the title three times in a row from 2016 to 2018.

The first two events were played in the double knockout system and from the round of 16 onwards in the knockout system , with eight invited players being seeded in the round of the last 16. Since 2014, all participants have been competing against each other in knockout mode right from the start. The combined pyramid discipline is played , but with slightly modified rules. For example, after sinking the game ball, the opponent can decide which ball to take from the table, whereas the official rules allow the player to choose it himself.

Prize money

The Savvidi Cup is the most highly endowed tournament in Russian billiards . At the first edition, the winner received 250,000 Russian rubles , which is a little less than at the Kremlin Cup . In the following years the prize money was increased significantly. In 2016, the winner received over a million rubles for the first time.

year	winner	total
2012	250,000 rubles	1,000,000 rub
2013	300,000 rub	RUB 1,600,000
2014	RUB 600,000	RUB 3,000,000
2015	RUB 800,000	RUB 4,000,000
2016	RUB 1,200,000	RUB 5,000,000
2017	1,500,000 rub	RUB 6,000,000
2018	RUB 1,600,000	RUB 7,000,000
2019	not known	not known

The tournaments at a glance

year	winner	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists 1
2012	Pavlo Radionov	7: 4	Volodymyr Perkun	Oleksandr Palamar
				Vidjai Drangoi
2013	Sergei Bagirov	7: 1	Jewhen Talow	Yaroslav Tarnovetsky
				Pavel Kuzmin
2014	Gleb Vashchenkov	6: 2	Oleksandr Palamar	Iosif Abramov
				Nikita Liwada
2015	Artur Pivchenko	6: 1	Oleksandr Palamar	Nikita Liwada
				Dmitri Storoshenko
2016	Dastan Lepshakov	6: 5	Dmitri Shkoda	Yaroslav Tarnovetsky
				Aleksandr Sidorov
2017	Dastan Lepshakov	6: 2	Aleksandr Sidorov	Nodirbek Mirzayev
				Dmytro Biloserov
2018	Dastan Lepshakov	5: 2	Iosif Abramov	Nodirbek Mirzayev
				Volodymyr Perkun
2019	Sergei Kryzhanovsky	5: 3	Asis Madaminov	Nodirbek Mirzayev
				Aleksandr Sidorov

¹ The first-named semi-finalist lost against the eventual winner, the second-named against the other finalist.

Ranking list of winners

space	player
1	Dastan Lepshakov	3	0	0
2	Pavlo Radionov	1	0	0
	Sergei Bagirov	1	0	0
	Gleb Vashchenkov	1	0	0
	Artur Pivchenko	1	0	0
	Sergei Kryzhanovsky	1	0	0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Дастан Лепшаков побеждает на кубке Саввиди 2017. In: vbilliard.ru. October 14, 2017, Retrieved October 21, 2018 (Russian).  
2. ↑ Ростовский дубль Дастана Лепшакова. In: llb.su. October 14, 2017, Retrieved October 21, 2018 (Russian).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2012. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2013. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2014. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b} IV Международный турнир на кубок Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2015. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2016. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2017. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
9. ↑ ^{a b} Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2018. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .  
10. ↑ ^{a b} 8-й Международный турнир на приз Почетного президента ФБС ЮФО И.И. Саввиди 2019. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .