The world's best and scores of hopefuls kicked-off the first world cup in the 2019 cycle. Meeting in Antalya, Turkey the event ran from February 10-17. Preliminary qualification rounds were followed by the main event culminating in the finals held in single elimination knock-out format.
This year the main event would start with a slightly different format. After the pre-rounds, the main draw of 32 players would consist of 14 top players from the ranking, numbers 1 and 2 from the qualifications, 1 wildcard from UMB; 2 wildcards from the organizing body, and numbers 3 to 15 of the qualifications (10 group winners and 3 best numbers 2).With these 32 players, eight groups of four would form, of whom the best two pass to the knock-outs with 16.
We track the leaders from each day to watch and see if any early round hopefuls can survive until the main event. One did!
| Day one Leaders | Day Two Leaders | Day Three Leaders |
| 1 Muharrem Peker 4-1.200-8 2 Mehmet Bolsu 4-1.200-5 3 Serdar Bas 4-1.153-4 4 Mehmet Yavas 4-1.090-6 5 Tae Jun Oh 4-0.983-7 6 In Seok Kang 4-0.909-5 7 Emrullah Basegmez 4-0.869-8 8 Kim Le Hoang 4-0.833-3 9 Fadi Abousaleh 4-0,759-5 10 Jordy de Kruijf 4-0.750-4 11 Adam Kulak 3-1.200-5 12 Ronny Lindemann 3-1.090-6 13 Furkan Senel3-1.052-6 14 Omer Karakurt 2-1.365-6 15 Ilhan Ürküt 2-1.092-5 16 Sun-Woong Lee 2-0.936-7 |
1 Adem Kulak 4-1.666-6 2 In-Won Kang 4-1.578-9 3 Antonio Montes 4-1.500-9 4 Glenn Hofman 4-1.250-7 5 Ahmet Alp 4-1.224-5 6 Ronny Lindemann 4-1.224-6 7 Sung Il Jeong 4-1.176-8 8 Sun-Woong Lee 4-1.153-5 9 Mehmet Goren 4-1.111-5 10 Serdar Bas 4-0.952-8 11 Manol Minaoglu 4-0.923-5 12 Herbert Szivacz 4-0.895-6 13 Murat Tüzül 3-1.153-7 14 Gwendal Maréchal 2-1.414-8 15 Savas Bulut 2-1.113-6 16 Jordy de Kruijf 2-0.907-7 |
1 Duc Anh Chien Nguyen 4-1.621-11 2 Sun Woong Lee 4-1.621-10 3 In-Won Kang 4-1.578-11 4 Dion Nelin 4-1.578-5 5 Glenn Hofman 4-1.538-11 6 Murat Tüzül 4-1.463-7 7 Savas Bulut 4-1.428-10 8 Murat Celik 4-1.363-9 9 Serdar Bas 4-1.363-9 10 Wan Young Choi 4-1.276-5 11 Can Capak 4-1.153-8 12 Bong Chull Kim 3-1.538-6 13 Antonio Montes 3-1.333-8 14 Hideaki Kobayashi 3-1.111-8 15 Jose Juan Garcia 2-1.781-9 16 David Pennör 2-0.909-7 |
Serdar Bas and Sun-Woong Lee were the revelations of the tournament up to this point. Each had made it through the pre-qual rounds and then faced even tougher competition in the group stage. And it was Serdar Bas who was able to capture the final position of the three runners-up to advance to the main event. Here are the final leaders in the last qual stage who advance to the main draw.
The top twelve group winners:The new format for the final stages breaks the 32 players into eight groups of four with the best two from each group advancing to the final 16-man knock-out stage. Play begins Friday and continues until Sunday.
Continue to check back each day for more updates.
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