World Pool Series 2017 - Grand Final

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World Pool Series 2017 - Grand Final
Predator World Series Championship 2017
Billiard Picto 2-white.svg
Tournament type World ranking tournament
venue Steinway Billiards,
Astoria , New York
opening October 31, 2017
Endgame 3rd November 2017
discipline 8 ball
winner AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi
 

The World Pool Series 2017 - Grand Finale (including Predator World Series championship in 2017 ) was a great 8-Ball - Pool Tournament that from 31 October to 3 November 2017 in Steinway Billiards in New York district of Astoria in the United States was held. It was the fourth tournament of the World Pool Series (WPS) and marked the end of the first season of this tournament series.

The winner was Eklent Kaçi , who had already won the second WPS tournament . The 18-year-old Albanian won the final against the Finn Petri Makkonen with 13:11. Third place went to Wu Kun-lin from Taiwan and Dennis Orcollo from the Philippines . The winners of the two other previous WPS tournaments were eliminated early: Ruslan Tschinachow lost in the round of 16 against Jayson Shaw and Skyler Woodward was eliminated in the preliminary round.

The challenge tournament taking place at the same time, the Highrock Challenge , was won by the Philippine Lee Van Corteza with an 11: 3 final victory over the Taiwanese Lo Li-wen .

mode

The 68 participants competed against each other in the double knockout system up to the round of 16 and then in the knockout system . The goal was nine games in the double knockout phase, eleven games in the knockout phase and thirteen games in the final. Thereby each had to be won with a lead of at least two points. When the score was 8: 8 (preliminary round) or 10:10 (final round), a shootout was played in which both players played five balls from a given position and received one point for each ball sunk.

Prize money

Prize money
winner US $ 14,000
finalist US $ 7,500
Semi-finalist US $ 5,000
Quarter finalist US $ 3,800
Round of 16 US $ 2,200
17th-32nd space US $ 1,000
total US $ 80,300

Preliminary round

The following players were eliminated in the preliminary round:

1st round of losers (65th - 68th place)
2nd round of losers (49th-64th place)
3rd round of losers (33rd - 48th place)
4th loser round (25th - 32nd place)
5th losers round (17th - 24th place)

Final round

  Round of 16 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                             
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin 11                  
 United StatesUnited States Frankie Hernandez 6th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin 10
 
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 8th
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 8th
   AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi 11  
 United StatesUnited States Shaun Wilkie 9    
 GreeceGreece Damianos Giallourakis 11  
 GreeceGreece Damianos Giallourakis 8th
 
   AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 6th
 AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi 11  
 AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi 13
   FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 11
 RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 2        
 
 ScotlandScotland Jayson Shaw 11  
 ScotlandScotland Jayson Shaw 9
 
   FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 11  
 FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 11
 EnglandEngland Chris Melling 2  
 FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 11
   PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 8th  
 CanadaCanada Alex Pagulayan 7th    
 PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 11  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 11
 
   GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 7th  
 GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 11
 PhilippinesPhilippines Jeffrey de Luna 7th  

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Predator Grand Finale Moved To End Of October. In: worldpoolseries.com. September 11, 2017, archived from the original on November 3, 2017 ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Grand Finale. In: worldpoolseries.com. Archived from the original on November 3, 2017 ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ A b Ted Lerner: Predator Grand Finale Begins Today. In: worldpoolseries.com. October 31, 2017, archived from the original on November 3, 2017 ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Ted Lerner: Catch Me if You can! In: worldpoolseries.com. November 3, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c WPS Grand Final - Predator World Series Championship. In: cuescore.com. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ WPS Grand Finale - Highrock Challenge Championship. In: cuescore.com. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .