Sang Lee international (carom tournament)
- Thread starter Thierry Layani
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cuetable said:correction: Linden Place Exit on 678 is Exit 14, I have corrected the original post as well
Thanks again. I'll see you there.
(and thanks for the tip nostroke) I hope I'll have the time to visit Manhattan.
Thierry Layani said:
I think you should bite the bullet, drive to the city, pay $20 and leave your car in a guarded parking lot.
Or leave the cues in the Carom Office so they will be safe.
Ray Schuler put his showcase cues in the trunk after the show and drove to the city. Somebody saw it and follwed him from Queens to Mahattan. He parked the car on the street...
These was quite a while back. NYC has got a lot safer these days. Just use normal safety measure. Please feel relaxed and have a good time
Over a pile of meat, Ira and Blomdahl were sharing their Korea trip experience last night. Everyone was playing at the pool hall. Sang Lee told everone to stop all together for a food break. Everyone just left the cues on the table and walked out. Someone even left his cue near by an elevator. As Blomdahl questioned, Sang told him not to worry. Later he observed this seemed to be very normal around billiard halls. The moral is high and the players are respectful.
I was suggesting custom cue makers should insert serial numbers on the pin or inside the butt cap or somewhere and encourage customer to register, kind of like what they do at southwest. It helps tracking inventory, customer database and provides pride and a sense of security to your customer.
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The results of the finals (A and B) are available now at:Thierry Layani said:
http://www.sangleeinternational.com/assets/PDF/2006finals.pdf
The top 10 finishers in the semifinal brackets went into the A finals and the next 10 went into the B finals. You can see all of the brackets (thanks to TD Charles Brown) at
http://www.sangleeinternational.com/2006site.html
In the final round, Blomdahl played Caudron, and if he had won, they would have had tied records at three losses each, and there would have been a play-off for first. Instead, Caudon won 40-39 in 25 innings. In that match, Blomdahl only had 24 innings, so he actually had a higher average than Caudron. Caudron had a 7-2 record in the final round robin. Four players were tied for second at 5-4, and Blomdahl took second based on his average (of 1.851).
In his two losses, Caudron averaged 1.947 against Dick Jaspers and 1.938 against Ramon Rodriguez and had 37 and 31 points vs. 40 for his opponents.
Dick Jaspers, who had the high grand average in the finals of 2.026, finished only 6th in the tightly packed field. He got the best game money (about $500) for his 40-4 trouncing of Kyung-Roul Kim in only 8 innings for a 5.000 average. Jaspers had two other games in which he averaged about 2.0 and still lost. Half of the finals field had best game averages over 3.000.
Caudron took the high run prize with a 20 against Roland Forthomme. He also had a 13 and a couple of 10s in other matches.
In the "B" finals for positions 11-20, Murat Coklu from Turkey tied with Raymond Ceulemans for first on won-lost, but had a great 1.775 average. Peter Ceulemans, Raymond's grandson, took third in the B finals.
As far as the position of finish was concerned, it would be the difference between 11th and 12th in the tournament, and about $450 in prize money, so no play-off was deemed appropriate. If there had been a play-off in the B bracket but none in the A bracket, the whole tournament would have had to wait for that relatively unimportant match.mbvl said:
I tried the links above but couldnt get them to open up for some reason. I was curious as to how Sayginer played, and also how he finished.
The main one may require shockwave. The PDF should open fine, but you need Acrobat Reader. Here is another link to the PDFs:sicbinature said:
http://www.usbilliardassn.org/html/tournament_results.html
Sayginer finished 3rd with a 1.741 average and a high run of 13. He had losses to Blomdahl, Caudron, Peter De Backer and Ramon Rodriguez.