My opinion is that, whomever we chose, gets locked up for a month to practice 8 hours a day on the same table used at the MC.

That’s the cost of making the team.

Lou Figueroa
will never happen

Tobermory said:

I have suggested this before for the problem of slow play in the DCC one pocket, and nobody has ever risen to the bait. My original suggestion was that if a match took four hours BOTH players lose. So I’ll revise it. If a match takes three hours, BOTH players lose. That takes care, to some extent, of the player who is ahead stalling when the match gets close to the three hour limit.

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Then what’s the point of going if that can happen to you?

Entry fee, transport costs, hotel, food, official t-shirt…

Lou Figueroa

JolietJames said:

Interesting idea.
Are victims of domestic violence often forced to get tattoos or are you just helping them erase the name of their previous partner?
Do traffickers "brand" their victims to label and keep track of them?
If so, are they really that fancy? I was expecting to see XY123 on a victims arm before seeing the pics.

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Yeah, those are their abuser's names. If you ever listen to the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly there are lots of interviews with women who have been trafficked. It doesn't happen the way you think. Many will spoil them rotten and gradually push them towards prostitution. They prey on women who are extremely vulnerable. The stories you hear on that YouTube channel are so crazy. These guys are pros at manipulation.

mikemosconi said:

I never understood why solid one layer leather tips from the same lot would play different from each other. I imagine the process as starting from a larger piece of leather from which many many tips are produced/ so a box of tips should most likely all come off the same larger tanned leather hide. I could understand different lots of tips being different because they don’t all come from the same hide.

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As i understand it, the main reason is, its what part of the hide its been cut from. Hence the very inconsistent nature of solid tips.

The Chain of Shame! for league teams. Is a hot item, Daughter/ Son-in-law are doing.

Very interesting. I watched a few videos on your invention and it looks good.
Good luck with your product!

I have suggested this before for the problem of slow play in the DCC one pocket, and nobody has ever risen to the bait. My original suggestion was that if a match took four hours BOTH players lose. So I’ll revise it. If a match takes three hours, BOTH players lose. That takes care, to some extent, of the player who is ahead stalling when the match gets close to the three hour limit.

Perhaps what is needed on the American side is an open-style tournament open only to US players who are citizens qualified to represent the US in the Mosconi Cup. Five separate tournaments held across the US over the year to determine the US Mosconi Cup team. If you win a qualifier, you are not eligible for additional tournaments.
New York
Phoenix
Houston
Chicago
Los Angeles

The excitement might build and bring more awareness to the Mosconi Cup and Matchroom, and open up the field to the best players in the country and not just the ones who can afford to be on tour.