Del Sim lands 5th in World 14.1
The 77th Annual World 14.1 Championship concluded last week and our very own Del Sim was a contender! The tournament ran from October 2nd through October 8th over at Steinway Billiards in Queens, NY.
The tournament was run in a round robin format for the first couple days with players broken up into 4 groups. From within those four groups, only 16 players would advanced based on performance. The first set of rounds were a race to 100 balls. After the initial round robin was complete, the bracket became a single elimination to 200 balls.
The first day started off with an excellent lineup:
11:00 am Lee Van Corteza PHL vs USA John Schott
12:30 pm Danny Harriman USA vs SCO Del Sim
2:00 pm John Schmidt USA vs USA Danny Barouty
4:00 pm Darren Appleton ENG vs USA Ed Culhane
5:30 pm Thorsten Hohmann GER vs JAM Rhys Chen
7:00 pm Mika Immonen FIN vs USA Danny Harriman
8:30 pm Darren Appleton ENG vs FIN Ollie Turkulainen
Lee Van Corteza kicked things off with a perfect 100 ball run in the first match to set the tone for the tournament. Darren Appleton later had a response a of 230+ ball run. Thorsten, not to be excluded, had a high 180+ ball run of his own.
Del Sim joined the party, not in ball run, but in having a perfect record. Throughout the round robin, he went undefeated 8–0 against some great names like Danny Harriman and, last year’s champion, Mika Immonen.
He was unfortunately knocked out in a long 5 hour battle by Scotland rival, Jonni Fulcher. He ended the tournament with an excellent record of 8–1 and a lot to be proud of for his first world championship 14.1 experience.
Jonni Fulcher went on to play Lee Van Corteza in the semi-finals. The match was another long battle, but Corteza ended up putting the numbers down first.
On Sunday, Lee Van Corteza went head-to-head with 4-time champion Thorsten Hohmann. It was one for the record books but Corteza pulled ahead of Hohmann in the stretch and won the title 300–183.
You can find more results, brackets, and news related to this tournament at their official website listed here. https://www.theworldtournament.com/
