$1.5M first place prize for Chinese tournament next week
- By fastone371
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Anyone know how the scoring works? it looked like they were getting between 3-5 points for a game win.
I think a direct contribution would be used.
I don't want any of the prizes, even to sell, and would rather leave those to folks that would appreciate them.
The problem is that refs and players make mistakes. Most players play the large majority of their games without a ref and without deep knowledge of the rules. Add a ref, and you change the flow of the game and suddenly add rules that the players never apply in unreffed games. I can remember questionable calls in the last few years that had viewers screaming at their screens. And good calls that champion players decried as bogus.
In an ideal world, the players would follow all of the rules all of the time and the refs would never make a mistake.
I suspect the "least friction" path was chosen.
Only the ones I stated are Joss are Joss, as stated in the catalog.Some of these are not JOSS made cues. Falcon made some of them. If it doesn't say JOSS and has a 18thread pin its a Falcon made cue.
Yes, I know. That's why I often just say Kao, because I mix them up so easily.There are two Kao co's, KaoKao, the one you're referring to, and KaoFa. I've seen both and KaoFa's stuff is nicer. Their Awens custom line is really nice.
Adam Cues subcontracted production out of Japan starting in the mid-1990s, and the licensed Balabushka replica cues were shifted to off-shore manufacturing.I see. Very nice cue. The point I was trying to make is that, with Adam cues, the quality seemed to go down hill, after the mid 90's, at least for awhile. Not sure. But those 97, and 98 Series Helmstetter cues just did not look that good Uneven points and lop sided inlays. Here is a 86-16 Helmstetter that I had. The 86 series were very nice. Fairly even points, and really good inlay work, I think. The 97 series just looked like garbage, in comparison. Playing with both, I could really notice a big difference too. I felt that the older Helmstetter cues played far nicer.
same thing with Wu reinventing himself on these tables