sjm said:

Tough event to sweat from New York. Most matches end by early morning here. I haven't seen much of it so far, but I intend to fix that.

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no really outstanding matches so far. sky played good beating carlo, but that's about it.

skogstokig said:

biado too could complete the world championship trophy cabinet. of these four, all except filler are already on the loser side

or is it world 8b he's missing? biado that is

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Tough event to sweat from New York. Most matches end by early morning here. I haven't seen much of it so far, but I intend to fix that.

All of this "change this, change that" BS makes me think it is kind of like two nerds sitting down in the basement playing video games against each other and one nerd keeps losing.

The losing nerd suggests turning the TV upside down would make for a better game and make it more even.

They do it and the losing nerd finally wins a game and says, "See, I told you this was better."

Then the other nerd says, "To make it more even, I think we should put the TV on its side."

Then their blind nerd buddy shows up and suggests that they play with the screen turned off.

Game fixed.

looks nice

skogstokig said:

FSR probably in best form of these. earlier this year you could get people to bet filler against the field..

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Yeah, FSR in great form. It will be a great story if any of these three finds the finish line at this event. Wishing the best to each of them.

sjm said:

Yes, but Filler can complete the grand slam of WPA recognized world titles in singles.

World 8ball
World 9ball
World 10ball
World Games Gold Medal

Josh has already won three of them and had a silver at the World 10ball, when he lost the final to Ko Ping Chung. FSR also has a silver at the World 10ball, losing the final to Eklent Kaci a few years ago.

Let's add that of these three, only Josh has won the WPA World Teams Championship (2023).

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FSR probably in best form of these. earlier this year you could get people to bet filler against the field..

biado too could complete the world championship trophy cabinet. of these four, all except filler are already on the loser side

or is it world 8b he's missing? biado that is

skogstokig said:

it struck me that with the absence of the ko brothers, the top dogs must like their chances a little extra this year. filler, FSR and shane can complete the world championship triplet.

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Yes, but Filler can complete the grand slam of WPA recognized world titles in singles.

World 8ball
World 9ball
World 10ball
World Games Gold Medal

Josh has already won three of them and had a silver at the World 10ball, when he lost the final to Ko Ping Chung. FSR also has a silver at the World 10ball, losing the final to Eklent Kaci a few years ago. Darren Appleton also has three of these but never won the World 8ball.

Let's add that of these three, only Josh has won the WPA World Teams Championship (2023).

Lowell said:

You don't have a 15 foot extension for your cues?

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I do, but they don't think it's appropriate for me to take it out of my pants.

skor said:

I thought that I saw the referee racking without a triangle so I assumed that the table is tapped. But later I saw they use a triangle so probably not tapped.
Sorry for the confusion

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it would be unlike predator – in these events they want to promote their useless aero rack.

anyway. the side break is a cope with the often prevalent slug racks. they go for one in the side, with the safety aspect of other object balls often clustering up along the long rail. seems to me that guys like kaci, svb would have better results head on

Chopdoc said:

For that reason I think this is truely a "rebuild" case, not just repair.

Cosmetically it is a restoration, but the construction is a rebuild.

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It's one of those jobs that more than likely will ramp up in complexity during the process and since everything is at final dimensions there's no margin of error. It's not an uncommon thing, but with multiple X factors and only one chance to get it right it's one of those jobs you rehearse in your mind several times before starting the job.
How dimensionally accurate the cue is will certainly be a key factor and determine how to best go about this.

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