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Eight invited players, round robin, 50 point games, equal innings, one game per player per day.

Here are the results after four rounds.

Jaspers 3-0-1 (tied game with Ceulemans)
Sayginer 3-1
Sanchez 3-1
Blomdahl 2-2
Burgman 2-2
Caudron 1-3
Van Kuijk 1-3
Ceulemans, R. 0-3-1

High run:
Jaspers, Blomdahl, Burgman all with 13

Best game:
Jaspers 16 innings (he also has the next two best games with 17 and 19 innings)

Highest average:
Jaspers 2.353 (in his three wins he is averaging 2.885)

Mark
 
Thanks for the heads-up. Jaspers is a stgraight-up machine, though I do love to see that players with some style come back and win, just to make it interesting.
 
HomeBrewer said:
Thanks for the heads-up. Jaspers is a stgraight-up machine, though I do love to see that players with some style come back and win, just to make it interesting.
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I'm rooting for Sanchez. He still has to play Blomdahl, Sayginer, and Jaspers, and he really needs to win all three, but I love his game.

Mark
 
Update

Here are the results after five rounds.

Jaspers 4-0-1 (tied game with Ceulemans)
Sanchez 4-1
Burgman 3-2
Sayginer 3-2
Caudron 2-3
Blomdahl 2-3
Van Kuijk 1-4
Ceulemans, R. 0-4-1

High run:
Jaspers, Blomdahl, Burgman, Sanchez all with 13

Best game:
Sanchez 15 innings (50 to 12 against Sayginer. Ouch!)

Highest average:
Jaspers 2.358 (Sanchez second with 1.942)

Mark
 
Update

Sanchez lost to Blomdahl 50-39, and Jaspers nipped Sayginer 50-49, so Jaspers wins regardless of the result tomorrow against Sanchez.

Here are the results after six rounds.

Jaspers 5-0-1 (avg. 2.206)
Sanchez 4-2 (1.839)
Burgman 4-2 (1.708)
Sayginer 3-3 (1.503)
Caudron 3-3 (1.707)
Blomdahl 3-3 (1.612)
Van Kuijk 1-5 (1.382)
Ceulemans, R. 0-5-1 (1.188)

High run:
Jaspers, Blomdahl, Burgman, Sanchez all with 13

Best game:
Sanchez 15 innings (50 to 12 against Sayginer. Ouch!)

Mark
 
WHat a treat it would be to see this event. Is it open to the public? Where is it held (Monte Carlo, I know. Is it a Hotel, Billiards Establishment, Castle(!)?) and who is the sponsor? It must be quite an honor to be invited to play.
 
Black-Balled said:
WHat a treat it would be to see this event. Is it open to the public? Where is it held (Monte Carlo, I know. Is it a Hotel, Billiards Establishment, Castle(!)?) and who is the sponsor? It must be quite an honor to be invited to play.
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Bob Jewett should really be the one to answer this since he has attended and I have not. But here's what I have heard.

The tournament is held at a hotel in Monte Carlo. It is sponsored by a retired Dutch billionaire named Joop van Oosterom. It is open to the public and admission is free.

Mark
 
Kozoom is being a bit slow posting the final statistics, but it appears that Sanchez beat Jaspers 50-37 in 19 innings in the final match. Jaspers finished first with a grand average of 2.174 and Sanchez finished second with a grand average of 1.928.
 
Black-Balled said:
WHat a treat it would be to see this event. Is it open to the public? Where is it held (Monte Carlo, I know. Is it a Hotel, Billiards Establishment, Castle(!)?) and who is the sponsor? It must be quite an honor to be invited to play.
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The event was held this year in an event center right on the Casino square. As Mark said, admission is free but you have to get yourself to Monaco. I attended in 2004 when the record average for the entire field of 1.755 was set. That's for all eight players each playing 7 games to 50 points.

This was the 8th win in 14 tournaments for Dick Jaspers. Blomdahl has won 5 times and Caudron once -- those are the only 3 winners in the history of the event.

I saw the last three days of play. Thierry Layani was also there. Other than that, there were more or less no spectators except for George and Ricardo from Long Beach, Richard Bitalis, and a few people from the local area. Other people in the hall were players, officials and families.

Caudron remarked that he was averaging 1.7 and didn't feel like he was playing well. Sayginer started with three wins but then got the flu and ran into two runs of 13 (by Burgman and Sanchez) to drop to 3-2. He started with 33 in 8 against Jaspers so had a good chance to get best game, but ended up losing in the 1-hole.

Ceulemans, who will be 70 next year, tied Jaspers in their game but had no other wins.

The score in the final game was close when Sanchez ran 13-and-out. I think Jaspers missed his break shot for the equalizing inning.

There were 5 runs of 13 -- two by Sanchez, and one each by Burgman, Jaspers and Blomdahl. An extra prize of 500 euros was paid for each run of 10 with 100 euros added for each point after 10, so a 13 was worth 800 euros or about $1050.
 
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Here's a summary I wrote for PQB -- for the record.

-------- Crystal Kelly, Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 8-14, 2007 ------

Each year in Monte Carlo, just a stone's throw from the
Mediterranean Sea, retired Dutch billionaire Joop van Oosterom
hosts eight of the best three cushion players in the world at
the Crystal Kelly Tournament. It is a round robin format and
each player has one match per day over one week. The matches are
played in the old style with a single race to 50 points. (Most
current tournaments use 15-point sets.)

The venue for the 2007 event was a sports hall just off the
Casino square. Raised seating was at each end, and armchairs
were set up on the playing level. Two beautiful Verhoeven tables
were used with Simonis blue cloth and Aramith balls. Admission,
as always, was free, and all expenses were paid for the players.

The grand average for all players in all 28 matches was 1.622. This
missed the record of 1.755 set in 2004. The high individual
average was by Dick Jaspers with a 2.174. Not surprisingly, he had
the tournament won before his final match against Dani Sanchez.
Sanchez won that match in style, going out with a run of 13.
Besides the loss to Sanchez, Jaspers was tied by Raymond
Ceulemans. The format allows the non-breaker to have an
equalizing inning if the breaker wins, so ties are possible.

The high run of 13 was done 5 times, with two for Sanchez and one
each for Jaspers, Raimond Burgman, and Torbjörn Blomdahl.
Sanchez also got the best game with 50 in 15 against Semih
Sayginer. High runs are important to the players since each
run of 10 gets a $650 bonus and each point over 10 gets an
additional bonus of $130. The total prize fund was about
$100,000.

Place -------------- Record --- Ave. -- HiRun
1 JASPERS Dick ------- 5-1-1 -- 2.174 -- 13
2 SANCHEZ Daniel ----- 5-0-2 -- 1.929 -- 13
3 BURGMAN Raimond --- 5-0-2 -- 1.729 -- 13
4 BLOMDAHL Torbjörn - 4-0-3 -- 1.688 -- 13
5 CAUDRON Frédéric -- 3-0-4 -- 1.644 -- 9
6 SAYGINER Semih ---- 3-0-4 -- 1.453 -- 10
7 VAN KUIJK Frans ---- 2-0-5 -- 1.376 -- 9
8 CEULEMANS Raymond 0-1-6 -- 1.188 -- 7
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Grand Ave. 1.622 -- High Run 13 (5 times)
 
Str8PoolMan said:
Forgive a stupid question, but exactly how do you have a tie game in billiards?
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Not a stupid question at all. In the simpler forms of billiards it is both possible and common for the best players to run out from the break shot. That's for games like straight rail (just hit both the other balls) or balkline (just hit both the other balls with "close clustering" restricted). In such situations, it was felt to be unfair to lose a match without ever having tried to score, so the rule is that if the original breaker wins the game, the other player is allowed to start from a break shot and see if he can tie. This is the standard rule in matches that are played in a single set to a large number of points. Many 3-C tournaments are now played in sets and there is no equalizing inning. The breaks alternate in the sets and that's felt to be fair enough.
 
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