fastone371 said:

How did the waxing of the cue ball even become a thing? I mean who intentionally plays pool like that, I can maybe see it for trick shot stuff but regular pool???

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It seems that lots of people use wax as part of their standard ball maintenance at home. It's often mentioned when best cleang methods are discussed.

A local room seems to do it to all the pool balls. The balls barely throw.

Thinking back, there was a local room in the 1960s where the cue balls acted funny in a way that could have been from wax. I didn't know about wax at the time.

fastone371 said:

Isn't possible for the cloth to be that slick? ...

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There is cloth that is very slippery and stays that way.

I've played recently on a home table with year-old cloth where it was impossible to make many standard position shots because the spin wouldn't take on the cushions.

Years ago a local room had cloth on their GC3s that was both very slippery and fairly slow, which is a strange combination.

But neither of those cases was Simonis.

Great video.

One correction: at one point you refer to a draw shot by eventual champion Carlo Biado, when it is clearly Chua at the table.

Also, most examples from the tournament were from the Chua-KPC match. If the conditions were slick in general, shouldn't more matches have unexpected CB action?