Blog entry from 2023-01-14
The Swiss Antonio Gorgoni from BC Basel has now managed the feat of defeating the "5 Pins Doctor" and MWS coach Luca Marzio Garavaglia. The Italian was able to celebrate 51 match wins in a row on the Home Tour before this impressive streak came to an end. With the class of a Garavaglia, it is to be expected that the next winning streak will follow soon. But yet another player won the five pins tournament that ended recently, the Dutchman Ernst-Jan Driessen, the overall winner of last year's Home Tour. Jimmy Riml from Innsbruck came second, Garavaglia took third place.
The three cushion tournament was quieter and ended with a favorite victory, although the tournament victory was also fought over. Home Tour record champion and MWS coach Andreas Efler lost in a direct duel against Tay-Dien Truong from Erlangen, but still won the competition just ahead of Truong due to the better set delta. This was Efler's 16th title on the Tour. Third place went to Georg Schmied.
The podium of the Home Tour three cushion tournament 2022/23 #2:
- Efler, Andreas (AT): 5 wins, set delta +11, 23 sets won
- Truong, Tay-Dien (DE): 5 wins, set delta +9, 23 sets won
- Schmied, Georg (AT): 3 wins, set delta -1, 16 sets won
The podium of the Home Tour five pins tournament 2022/23 #2:
- Driessen, Ernst-Jan (NL): 7 wins, set delta +14, 14 sets won
- Riml, Jimmy (AT): 7 wins, set delta +9, 14 sets won
- Garavaglia, Luca Marzio (IT): 6 wins, set delta +11, 13 sets won
Cycle #3 runs from January 14th to February 17th 2023, a three cushion tournament and a five pins competition will be played. The most prominent newcomer on the Home Tour is Cemal Çay from Stuttgart, who, together with Ersin Dogan and Night Café / BC Stuttgart, set a new Guinness world record in continuous billiards between Christmas and New Year (more about this in World record attempt 50 hours billiard marathon December 27th to 29th LIVE on MYWEBSPORT.COM).
The Royal Pro Home Tour is an international carom billiards tournament series that is played online via the MWS system at various MWS locations worldwide. With the start of the current 2022/23 sports season, we switched the Home Tour overall ranking to a new system that is very similar to the ELO ratings in chess. The new ELO rating system is a continuous ranking list with no end of term. The ranking leaders are awarded prize money on certain dates (e.g. end of quarter, end of month ...).
To the current ELO ranking 2023#1
