Timetable and Tournament-mode

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

 

Sunday, 8th of march 2009
11 am 29 Sweden - Corea 30 Belgium - Germany
 
2 pm 31 Sweden - Belgium
afterwards   Presentation ceremony

Saturday, 7th of march 2009
11 am 21 (H) Belgium - Greece 22 (G) Japan - Portugal
1 pm 23 (G) Japan - Netherlands 24 (H) Belgium - Turkey
3 pm

Drawing of quarter finals
4 pm 25 Sweden - France 26 Danmark - Germany
7.30 pm 27 Netherlands - Corea 28 Belgium - Spain
afterwards

Drawing of semi fianls

Friday, 6th of march 2009
11 am 11 (F) Turkey - Danmark 12 (E) Spain - Japan
1 pm 13 (A) Sweden - Austria 14 (B) Netherlands - Ägypten
3 pm 15 (C) Belgium - Vietnam 16 (D) Germany - Greece
5 pm 17 (E) Spain - Switzerland 18 (F) Turkey - Montenegro

End of preliminary rounds, begin of intermediary rounds
8 pm 19 (G) Portugal - Netherlands 20 (H) Greece - Turkey


Thursday, 5th of march 2009
11 am Opening ceremony
12 am 1 (A) Austria - Portugal 2 (B) Corea - Egypt
2 pm 3 (C) France - Vietnam 4 (D) Greece - Czech Rep.
4 pm 5 (E) Japan - Switzerland 6 (F) Danemark - Montenegro
6 pm 7 (B) Netherlands - Corea 8 (A) Sweden - Portugal
8 pm 9 (D) Germany - Czech Republic 10 (C) Belgium - France

 

Subject to changes on account of television broadcastings or something similar.

Tournament-mode:
Group games of the preliminary rounds: groups are consisting of 3 teams - Avè system (round robin)
One match is consisting of two games, each time those players who are registered first are meeting each other on one billiard table, on the other billiard table the two players registered second are playing against each other.
In the games of the preliminary rounds and the intermediary rounds one is playing with two winning sets (best of three) 15 points without any limitations with regard to the innings. The winners of each group are qualified directly for intermediary round.

All Second-placed teams will play in intermediary round in to flights with three teams setting ther by step system. This means the Second-placed 1st,4th and 5th meet in flight G, 2nd, 3rd and 6th meet in flight H. This round is also decided in round robin system. The winners of the groups are qualifying themselves for the quarter-final.

Beginning with quarter-finals the matches will be played best of five, that means 3 winning sets. The quarter-finals will be drawed preventing that teams of the same preliminary group meet again. Also the both qualified Second-place can't be drawed in teh same quarter-final.

The semi-finals will be drawed too.

The game for place 3 won't be played.
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