Tennesseejoe said:

Grip the break cue more forward? I never heard that. That would tend to shorten your stroke...like telling a baseball player to hold the bat more in front of him.

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AtLarge said:

As noted in Post #1, only 44% of the breaks in these 10 matches were successful (made at least 1 ball and didn't foul). The percentage is low in most of the Predator 10-Ball events. Tough tables!

In some matches, runs of consecutive dry breaks are quite long. Here are the longest consecutive dry-break "runs" for each of the 10 matches tracked in this event (in the order of the match list in Post #1).

4 2 6 7 4 6 5 2 1 7​

So in half of the 10 matches, the break was dry at least 5 games in a row!

In the final match, 12 of the 18 breaks were dry, including a streak of 7 in a row!

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Bob Jewett said:

I think in Manila, the venue could support only a few tables, and so the number of matches had to be reduced.

In the case of Yuma, I think it is an experiment in adjusting the amount of effort for the expected turnout while still producing a watchable product. The usual large WNT event has maybe 30 tables. I think it will be more like 8 or 10 tables in Yuma. That's a large reduction in time and staff required to run the event.

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