SEOUL - The Korean capital Seoul will be the stage for the World 3 cushion Survival from Thursday (17 August) to Sunday 20 August, organised by Five&Six and AfreecaTV and part of the calendar of the world federation UMB. The Survival event will be played by 24 players, most of them from the UMB world top, at the same time 10 ladies including Therese Klompenhouwer, the world champion, play a Round robin to 20 points. The men start in the composition of four players per match.
Fourteen players have been designated as qualifiers, four players received a wildcard and six players come from the three-day qualifiers with 128 players. Thursday and Friday are for the preliminary stage, Saturday are the quarter-finals, Sunday the semi-finals and final.
The seeded players:
Dick Jaspers
Marco Zanetti
Torbjörn Blomdahl
Tayfun Tasdemir
Myung-Woo Cho
Eddy Merckx
Sameh Sidhom
Haeng Jik Kim
Quyet Chien Tran
Nikos Polychronopoulos
Jung Han Heo
Jun Tae Kim
Martin Horn
Ruben Legazpi
The wildcards
Myeong Jong Cha
Michael Nilsson
Berkay KJarakurt
Phuong Vinh Bao
The format with the seeded players, wildcards and qualifiers:
Group A: Dick Jaspers, Jun Tae Kim, Martin Horn, Jinwoo Heo
Group B: Marco Zanetti, Jung Han Heo, Ruben Legazpi, Alessio D'Agata
Group C: Torbjörn Blomdahl, Nikos Polychronopoulos, Myeong Jong Cha, Chi Yeon Cho
Group D: Tayfun Tasdemir, Quyet Chien Tran, Berkay Karakurt, Van Ly Dao
Group E: Myung-Woo Cho, Haeng Jik Kim, Phuong Vinh Bao, Yesung Jeong
Group F: Eddy Merckx, Sameh Sidhom, Wan Young Choi, Jung Hee Lee.
Prize money is $50,000 for the winner in the Vita 500 Coliseum Afreeca TV, which broadcasts the matches live on YouTube.
Prizes in dollars:
1: 50.000
2: 25.000
3 and 4: 12,000
5-8: 8.000
9-16: 5.000
All players for the men's Survival in Seoul
Therese Klompenhouwer, the world champion with one of her Korean rivals