jbart65 said:

Team Asia sure could have used a player of Chua's caliber. He looked a bit rusty at times, but for the most part, his play was scintillating.

Surprised by some results, though. FSR was great, then got clobbered.

Yapp just doesn't look anything at all like he did last year.

Hoang looks very tired. He has played every single major tournament this year except for one.

SVB seems more erratic to me this year. Fedor, too.

Moritz Neuhausen has not built on his win in the European Open.

Pecelj has hit a new level. He lost to Chua, but it was close. It could have gone either way.

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I watched extended highlights of the Jayson Shaw v Fedor Gorst match and they were both unbelievably erratic. Jayson looked at his best for the first half of the match and probably should have won comfortably. But around the middle of the match he started missing balls he never would normally, seemed to lose a bit of confidence and let Fedor back into the match. Gorst also missed a lot of shots you really wouldn't expect him to, whilst displaying his normal amazing proficiency with the jump cue. Saw someone comment on Gorsts facebook page that with all the misses it wasn't the Fedor they knew, and Fedor just replied "you don't know me at all" which made me laugh. Must be annoying being in the public eye and everyone piles on when you have a bad day.

Really enjoyed this shot by Jayson when he had to make a bank shot in a split second after realising he didn't have an extension
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I hadn't heard of the player that beat SVB before. Is that my ignorance or is he fairly unknown?

kingwang said:

My club has a projector system set up and it can randomly lay out 9 (or any other number) of balls. I like working on BIH runouts with this because 1) no racking + break needed 2) you're always running 9 balls instead of less because you made balls on the break and 3) most importantly, it allows you to try again if you fail.

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That sounds amazing. I like trying a run out again if I fail when practising, but I just take a photo after the break then set it up the best I can so it's always a very rough approximation of what the exact layout was. Wish a club near me had that set up.

sjm said:

Yes, you are wrong. Practically every sport offers the scores of games completed or in progress, as practically every fan wants this information.

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You are right that it happens in multiple sports, but I think there is a section of the viewership that gets frustrated with it in every sport too. I can see both sides on it. Basically if you are intending to watch the other match later it's infuriating, but if you don't it's nice to know.

fiftyyardline said:

Regarding racking in a 10ball ring game. Where is the best place to rack the 5ball where it is difficult to make on the break? We have been racking it in the interior of the back row - but it still one rails sometimes back up to an upper corner.

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Since the second row often goes straight in the side, all that's left is the third row, even with the 10.

Second row used to be the standard, before templates.

JABSolstice said:

Going to give this a shot tonight.

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Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement after your experience.

Also, to you and others, please let us know what you think of the player rating labels corresponding to each successful ending Level.

bbb said:

I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to
And will give you feedback

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Thank you. Bob and I look forward to getting feedback and suggestions for improvement from you and others.