Three Cushion Billiard News
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Piedrabuena 2nd and Lee 3rd in Competitive Event
Seventeen players assembled in Houston Texas at US Bida for the USBA Tour Open tournament held August 22-24. Current US Champion Pedro Piedrabuena topped the group of A players which included former US Champion Hugo Patino, Sang Jin Lee from New York, and local Houston players Cong Nguyen and Thanh Vu. USBA President Jim Shovak entered in the A group as well. The eleven B players included Ellis Lawrence and Jim Bishop who traveled to Houston to play, as well as nine local players including room owners Tim Nguyen, Patrick Tran and Quang Tran along with Dung Ngo, Minh Lam, Nacho Galindo, Kiet Nguyen, Lan Vo and Doug Deitel.
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Thanks to Merrill Hughes, our Treasurer and Board Member we have a glimpse into what we all hope is the next generation of three-cushion players and the future of the game.
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Twenty-four players participated in the Third Annual Marti Tracy Memorial 3-Cushion Billiard Tournament, held for the first time at the Ashland Elks Lodge in Ashland, Oregon. (Previously this tournament had been held at the Medford Elks Lodge just 15 miles way.) Just like the two previous Tracy tournaments, this was a USBA B/C Tour event, with separate prizes for B and C tournament winners. This time, there were enough players falling in the C+ category that we had separate finals and prizes for both the C players and for C+ players. In all, we had 10 B players and 14 C players, 7 each of C's and C+'s. The B players participated in one large round robin flight, with the top three finishers winning the trophies and cash prizes. For the C players, we divided them into two mixed flights of C+ and C players, with the top two C+ finishers from each flight playing in a four-person C+ round robin final, and also the top two C finishers from each flight playing in a separate 4-person C round robin final. Scores from the games with the other finalists from the same flight were carried over into the finals, so finalists only had to play against the two finalists from the other preliminary fight.
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Torbjorn Blomdahl Takes Top Honors
The 2014 New York tournament is over and Torbjorn Blomdahl of Sweden is the winner. Blomdahl defeated Eddie Merckx of Belgium in the last game of the 8-man round robin finals to cement the victory. Blomdahl was the most consistent in the finals winning all seven of his games to go undefeated and averaging more than two in all games but one. His grand average of 2.188 was also tops. Frederic Caudron who came in third had the best game of 3.636 and high run of 17, but was eliminated with three losses to Blomdahl. Merckx and Ly The Vinh of Vietnam. Dick Jaspers was fourth ahead of Vinh in a disappointing effort for his fans.The remainder of the final 8 are Huberney Catano, Sameh Sidholm and Alexander Salazar.
The complete result charts for the qualification rounds, the semifinal rounds and the final rounds are posted in the gallery. You will also find the official final rankings based on tie-breaker rules in the gallery. For all the results check out the Gallery here: 2014 Verhoeven Open Charts and Pictures