After the first edition of the tournament had no sponsor a year earlier, the tournament was sponsored by the Japanese company Yamaha for four years from this year and this year it was held under the name Yamaha Organs Trophy . The prize money tripled compared to the previous year to 27,600 pounds sterling , of which more than a third of £ 10,000 went to the winner.
Prize money
Finals
winner
£ 10,000
finalist
£ 5,000
Semi-finalist
£ 2,500
Group stage
Runner-up
£ 1,000
Third place
£ 500
Fourth place
400 pounds
qualification
£ 0
All in all
£ 27,600
Tournament course
Despite the new name, the Yamaha Organs Trophy took place in the same mode as the British Gold Cup last year. Sixteen players played a qualification in advance in four groups of four , with the respective group winner qualifying for the main round. In this, each of the four groups consisted of the qualifier and three other participants, so that a total of 28 players took part in the tournament. In the main round, as in the qualification, a simple round- robin tournament was played, whereby the respective group winner qualified for the semi-finals, from which the winner was determined in the knockout system . Up to and including the main round, all games ran over three frames. If two players took first place in a group at the end of the round-robin tournament, a one-frame play-off took place to determine the winner. The tournament continued with a best of 9 frames mode in the semifinals, which was followed by the finals in the best of 17 frames mode .
The Englishman Steve Davis was only a few years a professional player, but quickly rose to the top of the world and won the 1981 World Snooker Championship shortly after this tournament . So it was no surprise that he had won his group without any problems and reached the final with a 5-2 win over Dennis Taylor . In this he met David Taylor , who also came from England, but was a good 14 years older than Davis and a professional player for much longer, but had already achieved some minor successes. At this tournament he finished first in his group with Doug Mountjoy , defeated him in the play-off and then qualified for the final with a 5-3 win over the Canadian Kirk Stevens .
After a leisurely start to the game, Steve Davis dominated the game with three higher breaks of more than 50 points with a 5-1 lead. Taylor was able to shorten it to 5: 2, but Davis continued his winning streak with further high breaks until he reached 8: 2, so that he only needed one frame to win. But Taylor prevented the game from ending quickly and won, among other things with the help of a 62 break, four frames in a row before Davis won his last required frame to the final score of 9: 6.
The qualification took place before the start of the main round, but the exact dates are unknown. The sixteen participating players were divided into four groups of four and played a simple round-robin tournament , at the end of which a table was set up, the first-placed player could advance to the main round.
Alex Higgins
Steve Davis
Doug Mountjoy
Kirk Stevens
Patsy Fagan
