THE FRENCH TEAM OF BC SOISSONS TRIUMPHS IN THE COUPE D'EUROPE 3-CUSHION 2025
The day of the final in Porto was an exciting and spectacular closing for the 65th edition of this event.
The crowd gathered in the Pavilion do Lagarteiro in the city of Porto enjoyed breathtaking matches and strong performances.
It all started in the morning with the first semifinal between the defending champions, the Danes of Varde, and the French team of BC Soissons. The regular match was a draw: Eddy Merckx and Jean Paul de Bruijn for Varde defeated the two top players of Soissons Frederic Caudron and Jeremy Bury in 14 and 16 innings; nevertheless the numbers 3 and 4 for Soissons, Pierre Soumagne and Mikael Devogelaere, saved the day equalizing the points count with wins over the Danes Nelin Dion and Allan Schroder. Penalties had to be played in a thrilling athmosfere finally giving the victory to Soissons by 12-9.
In the second semifinal the Turkish of the Göztepe SK were opposed to the home team of FC Porto. Tayfun Tasdemir for Göztepe was the first to finish with a clear victory over Dick Jaspers in 16 innings making things turning sour for the Portuguese; on the contrary the other Portuguese FC Porto players, Rui Manuel Costa, Jose Miguel Soares and Joao Ferreira reacted and overturned the situation winning respectively against Tolgahan Kiraz, Berkay Karakurt and Tarik Yavuz, and taking the pass to the final.
In the afternoon the final between BC Soissons and FC Porto was played.
Frederic Caudron produced quickly a massive victory against Dick Jaspers with an exceptional performance (40-11 in 8 innings), while Devogelaere build up an heavy gap on Ferreira (40-24 in 22). Costa was leading on Bury but when Soumagne finally scored the 40th points against Soares the match was finished crowning BC Soissons as the new champion.
The podium:
Gold medal: BC Soissons (France)
Silver medal: FC Porto (Portugal)
Bronze medals: Varde BK (Denmark) and Göztepe SK (Turkiye)
Best team general average: Soissons 1,488
Best team match average: Soissons 1,712
Best match: Frederic Caudron 5,000 (Soissons)
Best run: Huub Wilkowski 15 (Cues&Darts/Xtreme)
Full results: here
PORTO: THE FOUR BEST TEAMS ARE READY FOR THE SEMIFINALS
The battle in the final groups just ended in Porto.
After four days of hard competition only two teams survived with a full score: the French of Soissons (Caudron, Bury, Soumagne, Devogelaere, Vasseur) and the Turkish of Goztepe (Tasdemir, Kiraz, Karakurt, Yavuz, Gayret), both winners of the final groups.
The other two who also reached the semis are the runners up of the final groups: the home team of FC Porto (Jaspers, Costa, Soares, Ferreira) and the defending champions of Varde BK (Merckx, De Bruijn, Nelin, Schroder).
The Goztepe team won group AA with 3 wins; the title holders of Varde from Denmark had to settle for the second place due to the loss with the Turkish team, a draw with Team Eekhoorn and a win against Andernos. The Eekhoorns and Andernos finished respectively in the third and fourth position.
In group BB Soissons also scored 3 wins to lead the group; FC Porto won against Mister 100 and lost to Soissons; finally they won the Dutch of Cue&Darts for a place in the semifinals.
The crossed semifinals are scheduled for tomorrow morning, local time:
at 9:30 Soissons - Varde Bk
at 11:30 Goztepe Sk - Fc Porto
The final will be played at 16:30
Live streaming on Kozoom.
Full results here.
THE FINAL GROUPS IN PORTO ARE DECIDED
Tonight the 6 qualifiers that will join the Danish title holder team of Varde and the organizer team of FC Porto into the final groups have been decided as below:
Group winners:
A - ANDERNOS (FR) 1,293
B - CUE&DARTS/XTREME (NL) 1,124
C - BC MISTER 100 LIER (BE) 0,805
D - GÖZTEPE SK (TR) 1,373
E - SOISSONS (FR) 1,524
Best runner up:
TEAM EEKHOORN (NL) 1,291 (Group D)
According to the general averages the two final group have been set up:
Group AA - VARDE BK - GÖZTEPE SK - ANDERNOS - TEAM EEKHOORN
Group BB - FC PORTO - SOISSONS - CUE&DARTS/XTREME - BC MISTER 100 LIER
The final groups will be played tomorrow starting at 9:30 local time, live on Kozoom.
Full results here.
THE HEAT WILL BE ON TOMORROW IN PORTO
After two full days of qualifications the panorama is getting clear. Very strong performances have been recorded and the fight for the top of the groups will be in the heat during tomorrow's last qualification matches. All groups winners and runners up will be decided through direct matches between the two leading teams of each group, only group winners and one best runner up will advance. We also need to keep in mind that the best second who will be qualified to the final round will be selected only by means of the team general average.
Some provisional statistics:
Best single match: Jeremy Bury (Soissons) 40 in 12
Best team match: Soissons 1,662
Highest run: Tayfun Tasdemir and Tolgahan Kiraz (Goztepe), 12
Best general average: Soissons (1,563)
Group A: Mostoles (Spain) is leading and Andernos (France) is chasing; both with two wins and 4 points but Andernos is behind because of one single match lost and one single draw; they will clash tomorrow for the first place while TJ Sokol Zizkov (Czech Republic) and BC Elfenbein Hontrop will play for the third place.
Group B: Pottendorfer (Austria) had two wins and 4 points, Cues&Darts (Netherlands) follows with 3 points. They will play each other in the last decisive match tomorrow. Ringsted BC (Denmark) has 1 point, Sporting Club de Portugal zero points. Ringsted could still catch the second place.
Group C: BC Weywiesen (Germany) and Mr 100 (Belgium) had two wins each, tomorrow's last match will decide the group winner; Leça (Portugal) and Billiard's Cafè (Italy) will play last match for the third place.
Group D: this is the group with five teams; the Turkish team of Goztepe and the Dutch of Eekhoorn are on the top with 3 wins each, the Turkish team leading with one single point more; tomorrow they will play each other for the first place. The Danes of Randers are in the third place but with only 2 points they can't reach the top two whatever will be the result of their last match against the Swiss team of Zurich. Herstal too has 2 points but already played all the matches.
Group E: Soissons (France) and Neusiedl (Austria) are leading this group with two wins each, Soissons has a better average; they will play last deciding match tomorrow morning. Antalya Bilardo (Turkiye) and Kladno (Czech Republic), both at zero points, will play for the third place in the group.
Follow this link for full information about the event (players, schedule, results, classifications).
Follow the event live on Kozoom.
THE COUPE D'EUROPE 3-CUSHION 2025 IS READY TO START IN PORTO
The World Cup is just finished and the city of Porto will stay under the spotlight for one more week.
From July 8th until July 13th the Coupe d'Europe 3-Cushion will take place in the same venue as the World Cup: the Pavilhão Municipal do Lagarteiro.
For this edition, 23 3-cushion teams from 12 different CEB federations have registered to the most awaited club teams competition from the CEB.
FC Porto is the organizer, under the umbrella of the CEB and the FPB. The Danish team of BK Varde is the defending champion after taking the title away from the FC Porto team last year. Both are excused from the qualification rounds.
Many world top players will show up as members of the attending teams.
On July 8th the training session will take place.
From July 9th until July 11th 21 teams will play the qualification rounds in 5 groups round-robin. The group winners and one best runner up will advance and join the title holder of Varde and the organizers of FC Porto in the final round session on July 12th. 2 final groups of 4 will be set up and the first two from each group will play the semifinals on Sunday 13th. The final will be played on the same final day.
Follow this link for full information about the event (players, schedule, results, dress code and more).
The tournament is played on Simonis cloths with Aramith billiard balls.
Kozoom will broadcast the event.
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