3-Cushion
The eight players field for the next, upcoming 4x10 OneCarom (October 26-30) has a total of five world champions, together are counting 16 three cushion world titles. Torbjörn Blomdahl is the most awarded with six, followed by Dani Sánchez and Therese Klompenhouwer with 4, Semih Sayginer and Sung-Won Choi with one global title. This is the second of three 4x10 Virtual OneCarom Challenges in this cycle. Lütfi Cenet won the first event ahead of Dick Jaspers. In the third tournament (November 9-13), among others Eddy Merckx, Tayfun Tasdemir and Murat Naci Coklu will show up.
The world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl will cross up and down this week to the billiard center where BC Stuttgart (with Dick Jaspers) plays its matches for the bundesliga. Dani Sánchez travelled from Spain to the Kozoom center in Andernos this Sunday for a video promotion with Predator and Kozoom. The Spaniard will probably play the UMB Challenge there. The Vietnamese Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Nai Ngo are in action in an invitation tournament in HoChiMin with 200 players, where today, Sunday, is played for the last sixteen and Monday from the 1/8th to the final.
The four top Vietnamese (Tran Quyet Chien), Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, Ngo Dinh Nai and Nguyen Duc Anh Chien) are still in the race. Nguyen: ''The final is this Monday at 19.00 our time, but for Ngo and me there is no problem to perform in the Challenge. Semih Sayginer will perform in the well known venue, Bilardo Max. Therese Klompenhouwer in a billiard room owned by a friend, Jeroen Rozenboom, which is bigger and more nice than her own billiard room.
Semih Sayginer played the final in the first series of OneCarom tournaments, which he lost to Eddy Merckx. Jérémy Bury lost the final to Lütfi Cenet in the next tournament. Dinh Nai Ngo won the final in the second session ahead of Roland Forthomme, Jun-Tae Kim and Nguyen Quoc Nguyen.
The format of the two groups in this week's session:
Group A:
Torbjörn Blomdahl (Sweden)
Jérémy Bury (France)
Sung-Won Choi (Korea)
Therese Klompenhouwer (Netherlands)
Group B:
Dani Sánchez (Spain)
Semih Sayginer (Turkey)
Nguyen Quoc Nguyen (Vietnam)
Ngo Dinh Nai (Vietnam).
The schedule for the first day, Monday October 26:
13.00 (Western European Time):
Blomdahl-Bury-Choi-Klompenhouwer
16.00:
Sánchez-Sayginer-Nguyen-Ngo.
The format:
Qualifying rounds: 3 days
Each player in the group plays 3 matches in his group over 10 innings from the break. That means, per player: three days, three games, 10 innings per day.
Two players (at two tables) from the group play one by one (1 turn, each time, followed by the other 2) and are shown one by one. So after each turn, the other two players from the group are alternately displayed.
The score and runs are kept per inning and counted after 30 innings until it leads to the final result.
After 30 innings (3 days across each group), the two players with the best score from each group advance to the next round.
Final round: 2 days
The four players come into action in matches two times 10, so 20 innings in total from the break, during two days, 10 innings per day.
The final classification is determined on the basis of the score and best run.
Financial overview:
Fixed fee of 1000 euro each player.
Extra for the winner 1000 euros
Extra for the runner-up 500 euros
Extra for the highest run: 500 euros.
Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, in the last 16 of a 200 players tournament in HoChiMinh these days
Dinh Nai Ngo and Therese Klompenhouwer
