In a gritty, consistent and still a stunner of a performance, local player Tae Kyu Lee wins the 2020 USBA 3-Cushion National Championship. Continue reading for complete charts, players list and links to video replay of all the streamed matches.
Playing in his home 3-cushion room, Carom Cafe Billiards in Flushing, New York, Lee won his preliminary flight with just one loss. Then he went undefeated in the 16-man single elimination finals to take the crown, winning the final match against Raymon Groot who ranked top of the preliminary field. More news and pictures from the event will be posted soon. Check the links below to see the round by round results charts and more.
Replay of all streamed matches now on the USBA YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
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Thursday February 27 through Sunday March 1, 2020
Live from Carom Cafe Billiards in Flushing New York
Tournament Format & Results
Tournament Director: Charles Brown. 36 Players Entered. Qualification round 4 groups of 9. Eight matches for each player to 25 points. Top 4 advance based on: Won/Loss, Total Points, Head-to-Head, Points Against or a Shootout. Finals 16-player single elimination with matches to 40 points.
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Players entered in the 2020 National Championship
1 Hugo Patiño returning 2019 champion | 2 Miguel Torres returning 2019 runner up | 3 John Park returning 2019 4th place |
4 Mazin Shooni former (2006) champion | 5 Gilbert Najm | 6 Sonny Cho former (2005) champion |
| 7 Song Lim | 8 Young Kyu Lee | 9 Tae Kyu Lee |
| 10 Raymon Groot | 11 Lloyd Wallace | 12 Julian Molina |
| 13 Sang Jin Lee | 14 Kang Lee | 15 Camilo Medina |
| 16 John Duque | 17 Carlos Ramos | 18 Jerry Jerone |
| 19 Abel Calderon | 20 Yim Kyung Soo | 21 Demetrios Tilaverides |
| 22 Michael Kang | 23 Young Gull Lee | 24 Woong Shin |
| 25 Mike Chen | 26 Sun Shin | 27 Andres Fernandez |
| 28 Jesus Quinonez | 29 Marc Smith | 30 Jairo Lenis |
| 31 Charles Delorme | 32 Vass Vassi | 33 Jim Watson |
| 34 Walid Elkhouly | 35 Edward Gomez | 36 Rich Vitzthum |
