The brackets are up now here: http://www.online-brackets.com/view/user/wpc9ball
16 groups of 8, for 128 players total. The groups of 8 are double elimination races to 9. They stop when 4 players have been eliminated from each group of 8.
Next the remaining 64 play one large single elimination bracket, races to 11. The finals is a race to 13.
All alternating break, 9 on the spot, 3 balls past the head string.
Shane's first match is against the 2011 winner of this event!
They didnt want to sacrifice their product. Us watching the w9b championships alpng with their ppv subscribers watching another tournament that their current platform couldnt support that many viewers. As disappointing as it is, i understand where theyre coming from amd respect them for making a very difficult decision.
Yt wouldnt have allowed us to have the kozoom experience we got spoiled with. Multiple tables on demand , live scoring, seperate chats etc.
Obviously that situation that occurred during the shane ko final really went noticed by not just the fans, but the promoter and streamer and they didnt want happening again.
I don't get it? They turned down the contract because they didn't want to use a YouTube platform to stream the final matches????
Couldn't they at the very least go and record the matches for watching later?
Can anyone else interpret this other than Kozoom ditching because they didn't want to use YouTube?
The tournament already started?
I guess my invite got lost in the mail again this year.
Have you found a schedule with dates & times anywhere?
Should be starting right about now in Qatar...
Awesome. Now I just have to sit back, close my eyes, and imagine them playing.
To help you visualise better, here is last year's final
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3W5-Z2eBAaY
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