The men's final match was a different matter altogether.  Ralf Souquet met up with Francisco Bustamante in the race to 7, which started off fairly equally until Souquet gained a 5-2 lead over his nemesis.  Bustamante came back to make it 5-4 but missed a two-rail bank in the next game, allowing Souquet to reach the hill.  A couple of errors in the next two games led to a hill-hill match with Souquet breaking.  He made two o­n the break but tried to play safe o­n the 2 ball and left his opponent a shot.  Unfortunately for Bustamante, he missed, and Souquet, oozing concentration from every pore, ran the rest of the rack out to win the championship 7-6.  Bustamante took $7,500 for second place, and first prize was $15,000.

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Women's event:

1st - Karen Corr

2nd - Allison Fisher

3rd - Helena Thornfeldt

4th - Shin Mei Lui

5th/6th - Vivian Villareal, Line Kjorsvik

7th/8th - Gerda Hofstatter, Jennifer Chen

9th/12th - Lori Jon Jones, Phoebe Choy, Ewa Laurance, Ming Ng

Men's event:

1st - Ralf Souquet

2nd - Francisco Bustamante

3rd - Mika Immonen

4th - Johnny Archer

5th/6th - George Breedlove, Satoshi Kawabata

7th/8th - Santos Sambajon, Jr., Earl Strickland

9th/12th - Nick Vandenberg, Max Eberle, Rodney Morris, Jimmy Wetch