Bump for an incredible player.

Bavafongoul said:

The Oneida WPA 8 Ball World Championship that was held 4th of July week suffered the same fate with male
announcers. They rambled, meandered, interviewed guests during which time they never commented on the match
underway. I could have done a better job and I don’t know much about announcing but I do know & understand pool.

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i think mika was good

Biloxi Boy said:

I can no longer read all of Hu's badge but know it has something to do with Smorg. Also, there used to be several similar aviators/badges, but I do not know who all, how many, etc. Sadly, there is a whole generation who knows nothing about Smorg. (I lurked for years but am terribly deficient.) So, I would say it's time to stir the fire and tell/hear the whole story, and anything else we should know about Smorg.

And please, mods, please fix Hu's and the others' avatars so we can read them. Thanks.

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short for smorgasbord? if not, i have no clue, but as a non english speaker i'm curious. it sounds quite mean. like a dragon in lord of the rings or something

a similar word, smert, was both the abbreviation for the soviet secret police and is the russian word for death

I just looked at the two machines, yours (or at least the current offerings from i2r) and the Cue Demon. From a 500ft view, they are the same machine.

From a few details:

Your machine uses profile linear rails, the cue demon uses round rails. Huge advantage to your machine.

Your machine has an actual steel bed, the cue demon appears to be set up on a piece of plywood that you supply (?). Gigantic advantage to your machine.

The i2r has a better aspect ration of the x-axis car span and the z height. Huge advantage to your machine.

The cue demon claims repeatability of 3 ten-thousandths. I call BS.

Neither of these machines are really 'cue building' machines. Neither of these machines will ever drill and bore for a pin, or a-joint. You are right that the ir2 will take a bunch of modifications, but so will the cue demon. The biggest modification will be to also buy a lathe.

I don't understand what you hope to gain going from one gantry style mill to another very similar gantry style mill.

My advice is: If you are going to lose money on the i2r and then buy a cheaper machine, take the money you are going to lose and invest in tooling and education for the machine you already have.

If you feel like reaching out, give me a pm and we can discuss offline via pm, email, or phone.

Bavafongoul said:

The Oneida WPA 8 Ball World Championship that was held 4th of July week suffered the same fate with male
announcers. They rambled, meandered, interviewed guests during which time they never commented on the match
underway. I could have done a better job and I don’t know much about announcing but I do know & understand pool.

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Some of the men in the booth know almost nothing about ladies pool. Many look down on it and can be a bit condescending too. The producers often are happy to get a name and don't look at qualifications. The ladies play well enough to be fun to watch playing each other and can take down some pretty good men.

In the early days of streaming some of the people coming down to New Orleans tried to get me in the booth for long stretches. I have a face for radio and not much of a voice for anything. One said he would be sure I got lots of camara time. I told him, "Best reason I know not to do it!" I did get on video once. I was watching the TV table from a slightly elevated viewpoint and you can often see my blue jeans from the knee down and my shoes. Took care of any urge for fame I had.

Hu

Yeah I find that the mute button is my friend while watching a lot of matches lately

dquarasr said:

NFI WPBA 9-ball event, Brunswick Borderline Billiards, Kristina Tkach v Kelly Fisher showing right now on Billiard TV:

I don’t know who the female commentators were but these two talked about anything but the match being played for two racks (when I happened to start watching), including a nice BnR by Kristina. Literally, two complete racks where there was not a word spoken about the match being played.

Then two sentences about the match, then more drivel about the tournament behind the scenes (food service, venue), anything but the match.

Sheesh.

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The commentary is so brutal I can’t watch it.
I like to hear the sounds of the game which requires volume. I rather needles in my eye.

The one commentator drags her words and talks in questions like a 15 year old valley girl with the voice of a female smoker.

I’m happy for the WPBA and what they’re doing and wish them continued success.