75 minute timed match. The winner of each table (in bold) advanced to the 2015 World Championship Final. Places listed are the standings at the end of the preliminary rounds.
Table Assignments[]
Table 1
- Australia, Tony Shaw (Prelims 1st Place) - Bankrupted (2nd Place at table)
- Switzerland, Beat Jost (Prelims 8th Place) - Bankrupted
- Defending World Champ, Bjørn Halvard Knappskog (Prelims 9th Place) - Winner
- Russia, Aleksander Kovalev (Prelims 16th Place) - Bankrupted
Table 2
- UK & Ireland, Natalie Fitzsimons (Prelims 2nd Place) - Bankrupted (3rd place at table)
- Japan, Tsutomu Doita (Prelims 7th Place) - Winner
- France, Philippe Pinoli (Prelims 10th Place) - Bankrupted
- Greece, Dimitrios Botsios (Prelims 15th Place) - Bankrupted
Table 3
- USA, Brian Valentine (Prelims 3rd Place) - Winner
- Hong Kong, Hon Tsz San (Prelims 6th Place) - Bankrupted
- Nordic Champ, Morten Svensen (Prelims 11th Place) - Bankrupted
- Belgium, Minh Tran (Prelims 14th Place) - Bankrupted (2nd place at table)
Table 4
- Chile, Ángel Niccodemi Diaz (Prelims 4th Place) - Bankrupted
- South Korea, Kim Hyan-Soo (Prelims 5th Place) - Bankrupted
- Italy, Nicolò Falcone (Prelims 12th Place) - Winner
- Poland, Marek Flis (Prelims 13th Place) - Bankrupted (2nd place at table)
All Semi-Finalists in Rank Order from Preliminaries[]
- 1st Place - Australia, Tony Shaw; 53 points
- 2nd Place - UK & Ireland, Natalie Fitzsimons; 53 points
- 3rd Place - USA, Brian Valentine; 52 points
- 4th Place - Chile, Ángel Niccodemi Diaz; 47 points
- 5th Place - South Korea, Kim Hyan-Soo; 41 points
- 6th Place - Hong Kong, Hon Tsz San; 40 points
- 7th Place - Japan, Tsutomu Doita; 37 points
- 8th Place - Switzerland, Beat Jost; 37 points
- 9th Place - Defending World Champion, Bjørn Halvard Knappskog; 33 points
- 10th Place - France, Philippe Pinoli; 31 points
- 11th Place - Nordic Champ, Morten Svensen; 30 points
- 12th Place - Italy, Nicolò Falcone; 28 points
- 13th Place - Poland, Marek Flis; 28 points
- 14th Place - Belgium, Minh Tran; 28 points
- 15th Place - Greece, Dimitrios Botsios; 25 points
- 16th Place - Russia, Aleksander Kovalev; 22 points
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