iusedtoberich said:

I'm colorblind so my opinion probably doesn't count, haha.... I like tournament blue better than traditional green. I don't think I've seen the new grey in person, but on TV I like it better than the blue.

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You played on the gray at the Florida Open?

the predator rack isn’t very good,
but, to be fair,
their name is predator

Boredom isn’t the worst thing.

Sorry.

Heck, I’m even getting excited that a second wave is coming after DigiBall.

Am I the only one that noticed, albeit rather belatedly since I only discovered
this thread existed today, that Nate has a Shot Clock Display in the works?

DigiBall is like seeing Star Wars when it first was released. Will space exploration
lead to that future world? I dunno but it made millions of people curious & wonder.

I imagine eventually linking AI to where you can summon analytical information and
display it in different formats. Gosh, you may be able to ask for data via questions.

The future is wondrous and I won’t live long enough to see it all come to fruition. But
I see this as a portal that’s going to elevate pool instruction to the same degree as golf
and baseball with analytical and high speed video that was never anticipated for pool.

Get on board folks because the future has arrived and you can’t change it, delay it,
or defeat it but why would anyone want to. This is like tomorrow arrived today…..Wow.

So when I saw that Nate had a shot clock display under development, I got excited. Why?
I’ll finally get my biggest gripe about addressed. Rest assured, I’ll get one for playing matches.

i just hope it is digital, large enough to be easily seen, countdown display & audible warnings.
Slow play is so annoying and a lot of players don’t realize it applies to them but they’d deny it.

I don’t know what Nate’s developing, what stage he’s at or if I am missing the mark and he has
something different in mind. It just happens to be something that I’d like to become a standard.

dtroup64 said:

I practice karate and have for 40 years. I've taught it for over 26. I try to apply my focus when I shoot pool:
When I am down on the shot, I focus on the path of the breath, just the path in and then out and I shoot on the out.

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That’s brilliant! I never thought about breath patterns much. I do know how to actively meditate and never connected both together like that. Thanks for the idea

maha said:

ratings are really for leagues and small honest tournaments. when the money starts to get interesting then expect for people to game the system.

only if the t.d. would ban those he feels are not honest about their rating, can it work for bigger money.

if you are lower rated in your class then expect to have no chance.
welcome to the real world.

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The big money tournaments of this kind require the players to make their Fargo games “public”, so the TD (and anyone else) can look at all of their games to look for evidence or of dumping. They also require a pretty high level of robustness (which makes the rating less sensitive to a few dumping attempts).

So if a player is close to the handicap limit and has a bunch of suspect losses to lower players, the TD can just deny entry.

It’s not perfect but it is something.

I have a hard time comprehending how anyone would be OK with saving a few bucks buying the counterfeit V10's from Wally World or anywhere else. I've bought two authentic V10's in the last couple of years and they last forever. Why risk it for a few bucks and then try to justify by claiming it's pretty much the same lol. It's not! Pool hall here bought a dozen of them from Walmart to mark up and sell to customers. They were not the same at all and ended up just being put out on the tables for the bangers to use or pocket and remove from the premises lol.

Positively Ralf said:

I'm surprised. I remember Shaw saying that the ten ball break is broken but your stats show otherwise. IS it due to the tables being as tight as they are?

I've not watched much of this event due to work, but do the PBS events have a break box rule? Or is it break from anywhere behind the line?

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I think the main issue is hand racking by referees using the Predator rack with no inspection by the players.

I struggled to get a right 8b rack using that rack - maybe it’s just due to lack of practice with the rack but I found it harder than with a good traditional triangle rack. I can’t imagine it’s different with 10b.

AtLarge said:

The Shaw/SVB match was rather unusual. 22 of the 28 breaks were dry (two were also fouled), including the first 10. Only 2 B&Rs, 1 by each player. 21 of the games involved safety play, and Shaw won two-thirds of those.

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I'm surprised. I remember Shaw saying that the ten ball break is broken but your stats show otherwise. IS it due to the tables being as tight as they are?

I've not watched much of this event due to work, but do the PBS events have a break box rule? Or is it break from anywhere behind the line?