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China Open

Flakeandrun
skogstokig said:
i can't see the top women in the brackets either? only siming and a few more. where's kristina, chezka, etc?
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Not sure, I’ll ask some friends. I know some of the staff/organizing team.
skogstokig said:
well the US open recently ended and the texas open started etc. but i don't think the women had scheduling conflicts?
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Yeah, but China open used to be a premier tournament. People would make time for it, or prioritize it even. Doesn’t feel like it at all this year.
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China Open

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Flakeandrun said:
The format/event is fatiguing, so it’s more that than scheduling. Most probably said “wtf even more games to qualify… in the middle of nowhere in Pudong… on shite tables… in a gutted venue with no food and bad coffee…yeah, no thanks to that…”
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well the US open recently ended and the texas open started etc. but i don't think the women had scheduling conflicts?
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China Open

Flakeandrun
skogstokig said:
weakest field they ever had for the men's.. probably travel fatigue and scheduling conflicts
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The format/event is fatiguing, so it’s more that than scheduling. Most probably said “wtf even more games to qualify… in the middle of nowhere in Pudong… on shite tables… in a gutted venue with no food and bad coffee…yeah, no thanks to that…”
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Chalk gate at the open !!!!

Frosty
GideonF said:
I think someone should produce a “Get Off My Lawn Open” for the AZ curmudgeons:

No jump cues
Old Gold Crown Tables
Only Master chalk
No Carbon Fibre
Green cloth
Centennial Balls with the traditional colours - Purple 4b
Hand rack for your opponent
One on the spot

What else am I missing?
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I think someone should produce a Young and Dumb Open as well:
1. Must have a $700+ jump cue
2. Chinese Rasson Table
3. Only $20+ boutique chalk
4. Only CF or some other midget ferrule LD shafts allowed, preferably by Predator.
5. Emily Gray CPBA cloth
6. Cheap ass Dynasphere balls in Emily colors.
7. Pink 4 ball
8. Template rack
9. 9 on the spot

What else am I missing? Oh crying towels for when they don’t have anything to blame their lousy play on.

Edit: I forgot the most important thing, a garishly designed shirt of plastic like texture made from petroleum products that look like part of a super hero costume
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China Open

Flakeandrun
Ruslan just beat Lo Ho Sum. Was mentally fatiguing watching them tbh… Amoroto beat a decent Shanghai player. Really not even fussed about checking in. Lots of Japanese players were hitting up my local as I was leaving, hoping they’re there tomorrow, as I have been itching to make some money back from one of them who drained my pockets last year 😂 I’ll probably try and play a few games tomorrow/see who’s about.
Really wasn’t fussed about three days of waiting around in the ass end of Pudong. But it’s been nice to help some friends and players from other areas warm up. Lot of pool to be played over this week. This is a nice time of year to socialise billiards wise in shanghai.
Might try and get in for the finals, but depends who ends up in them…
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China Open

Flakeandrun
jay helfert said:
Prize money?
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Same as usual for the winner. But the format is changed/even more matches to qualify…
Seems they’ve opted for a bigger field, but reduced the strength, less foreigners in stage one. 52829264 millions games to qualify... Stage one has some strong Chinese input, but little else in the way of foreign competitors. Stage 2 will see some strength coming in.
Seems they’ve cut tons of costs. Cheap Xingpai phantom tables, the venue seems gutted of any comfort. They’re sat on foldable chairs, way out in the middle of Butt F nowhere…
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Chalk gate at the open !!!!

jay helfert
ShootingArts said:
Sorry to interrupt the thread but a small world thing! One of my best friends lived in Redlands. Rudy owned a camera store, sold medium frame cameras. Met John Randolph? Through him. John got paid five hundred a day back then to photograph motorcycles and naked ladies for Easy Rider magazine.

Rudy was in a terminal stage of cancer so I went out there. I didn't go the most direct route but 6500 miles to see Rudy and worth every inch!

No pool but I had brought my competition pistol and some ammo I loaded for steel plate competition to shoot in it, nice mellow loads. John started trying to shoot an about 16"x20" steel plate set up at 200 meters for rifles. He had shot up close to a hundred rounds of my light loads shooting at that plate with no luck. I figured my short range loads were probably shooting a group, to call it that, about six feet tall by two feet wide. The gun was accurate, the load wasn't at that range. The pistol would have shot a group that would have hit the plate about half the time had I loaded planning to shoot 200 meters. Not bad for two hundred meters standing and offhanded.

I picked up the gun from the bench when he wanted me to try. I came up smooth and broke the shot when the sights were about six feet above the plate. A second or two later there was the distinct tink of copper hitting steel. I raised the pistol to shoot again, thought half a second, and set it on the bench. Nowhere to go from perfect but downhill!

Rudy my friend, RIP

Hu
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Vietnam era. We trained with our M-14's on a huge range. The M14 used 30-06 shells, clips of twenty. After a few weeks I could hit a man sized target at 300 yards. I was a "Marksman." Better shooters were Sharpshooters, hitting the same target at over 450 yards. The very best shooters (only a few) were Experts and could hit it at 600 yards! That's with a scopeless rifle, laying in a prone position. The M14 was one great rifle and very deadly in the right hands.

Memories of those days will never go away.
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My home pool room in Pampanga Philippines.

jay helfert
One word of warning about life here. There is definitely many things that are Lost In Translation. We speak with our command of the English language. They may well interpret it to mean something else that is more familiar to them. It's like a cultural difference.

For instance you say "ceiling" and they think your talking about the roof. Or you say you are having a "between meal snack," and they think you are talking about during your regular meal. This is why you often have to very careful and even repititive when making any requests. And they still may get it wrong.
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