Why did the CEB decrease the amount of players on the European Championships?
The Championships until Callans/France in April 2003 were played with 24 players.

While the system with 24 players was active, we had 22 European GP´s in 9 seasons.
Since we have to play with 16 players since 2005 we had 2 GP´s.

What happens next:

1. Now it is almost impossible to come to the EC´s with ranking points.
2. So the organisations or nations have no reason to organize a GP for the players, see above.
3. A lot of players spent a lot of money to get rankingpoints, who cares...
4. Five years after the last CEB-GP the ranking includes only the Nationals and the last EC.
5. After this there is no qualification possible and the "rankingplaces" will be used from the same players every time.

6. The decision to play the EC with 16 players will eliminate the ranking.

So again:
Why did the CEB decrease the amount of players on the European Championships?

on June 26th, 2008

 

RANKING BILLIARD ARTISTIC       TOP 10      June 27th, 2008

last actualized: Belgium Championships

 
 name
CN
CE
total
1.
 Serdar Gümüs
10
1
36
1
46
2.
 Kevin Tran
8
2
28
2
36
3.
 Eric Daelman
10
1
20
3
30
4.
 Xavier Fonellosa
4
4
20
3
24
5.
 Walter Bax
8
2
14
6
22
6.
 Thomas Ahrens
8
2
14
7
22
7.
 Jean Reverchon
10
1
10
11
20
8.
 Ruud de Vos
4
4
14
5
18
9.
 Martin van Rhee
6
3
10
14
16
10.
 Jürgen Goris
-
-
14
8
14

I´ve created a objective CIBA-ranking, all masters with their percentage, 50% and above:

rank
 name
national rank.
championship
percentage
1.
 Madou Touré
2
French Masters 07
75,47
2.
 Jean Reverchon
1
French Masters 07
72,11
3.
 Sander Jonen
3
Dutch Masters 07
71,23
4.
 Walter Bax
1
Belgium Masters 07
70,48
5.
 Xavier Fonellosa
4
Spanish Masters 06
70,35
6.
 Ruud de Vos
1
Dutch Masters 07
68,97
7.
 Kevin Tran
4
French Masters 07
65,53
8.
 Eric Daelman
2
Belgium Masters 07
64,19
9.
 Rob Scholtes
4
Dutch Masters 07
64,01
10.
 Juan Carlos Cuadrado
2
Spanish Masters 06
63,37
11.
 José Asensio Mena
5
Spanish Masters 06
63,09
12.
 Michel Parra
3
French Masters 07
62,06
13.
 Jaume Norberto
3
Spanish Masters 06
61,06
14.
 Serdar Gümüs
1
Turkish Masters 05
60,53
15.
 Thomas Ahrens
1
German Masters 06
60,13
16.
 Miguel Argemi
7
Spanish Masters 06
59,93
17.
 Manfred Hekerle
5
Dutch Masters 07
59,74
18.
 Martin van Rhee
2
Dutch Masters 07
59,50
19.
 Jordi Oliver
1
Spanish Masters 06
58,25
20.
 Baris Cin
3
German Masters 06
56,83
21.
 Edgar Burkhart
5
German Masters 06
54,85
22.
 Haci Arap Yaman
2
Turkish Masters 05
54,80
23.
 Jean-Marie Limbourg
8
Dutch Masters 07
54,56
24.
 Heinz-Walter Kohlmeier
2
German Masters 06
54,40
25.
 Willy Daelman
3
Belgium Masters 07
54,20
26.
 Koray Kirman
3
Turkish Masters 05
51,20
27.
 Yavuz Oney
4
Turkish Masters 05
50,93
28.
 Bruno Dal Magro
5
French Masters 07
50,85
29.
 Claude Pacetti
7
French Masters 07
50,64