garczar said:

yet for 20yrs the same lame topic keeps getting re-hashed. how's this: 'its the player and not the cue'??? feel better now? cue/shaft co's make their living off people thinking they can buy a game, same as golf equip makers. As soon as Scheffler switched to that TM mallet putter the whole world had to have one and they still can't break 100(or get to 500FR in pool).

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Have broken 100 a time or to & play above 500 FR speed.

Still don't have a TM mallet putter & probably never will...

iontarget said:

Thank you but would that not take forever with 25 guys?

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Don't you basically have forever ?!? The tournament can transpire over several days !!

iontarget said:

Single elimination?

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Any number that floats your boat.

Dave38 said:

From Google searching McDermott VQR
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The McDermott Defy (VQR) is a high-performance carbon fiber pool cue shaft featuring a Viking Quick Release joint, designed to fit Viking cues

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Thanks, now I'm following. Doing stacked leather wraps, must be the fumes..

bbb said:

1)why would the cue ball lose energy because of outside english?
2) are you referring to the cue ball going in has the same spin that it would pick up if it went into the rail with no spin?

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1) for exactly the same reason a CB with inside english speeds up (= gains energy).
2) probably, there is a gearing side spin amount so that the edge of CB is moving at exactly the speed of the cloth on the rail as it hits.

nataddrho said:

Long story short, I've seen players practicing their "max spin swoop stroke" and their "quick draw dive-bomb stroke" and I want them to know AND BELIEVE that they are just adding complications.

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The swipe stroke works maybe one time in a hundred or less. Fantastic spin, equal to a masse shot. Unfortunately most people have less control of a swipe shot than a masse shot. I was mislead in my youth and tried the swipe shot for over a year. One shot in hundreds, it was magic. So like someone arguing about shots in another thread, it isn't impossible. So close to impossible on demand that over fifty years later I would still like to give the man that taught me a swipe shot a poke in the chops!

I don't know what you are talking about a dive bomb stroke so I won't comment on it. Impossible and impossible for practical use are two different things. I wouldn't be surprised if venom could master a swipe shot. Then again, I am not sure if he counts as a human!

Hu

Lowell said:

I thought "custom" meant built to your specifications, these are just cues that are exclusive to their website

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I believe the term has become largely loose in definition nowadays. the practice now it appears that anything that is not mass-produced or limited or different from the typical production cue in terms of quality and materials is being marketed as custom. the pure definition of a custom as you've mentioned and for those who have or own custom cues would tend to define that as per customer's specifications.

iontarget said:

Thank you but would that not take forever with 25 guys? Single elimination?

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How many tables do you have available?