realtor1618 said:

You should have came on here and asked. The reason is your team had a much higher combined Fargo. Your team’s rating was 449 points more than the other team so you had to give weight.

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Thank you, so now I understand completely. Seems like someone at CSI could have supplied that answer over a period of 8 months while my frustration from being ignored grew to a point where I thought no one was caring or even seeing my question. Now I am banned, probably for life, at CSI events because I said i thought I should seek legal help in getting my answer. I can only assume that CSI like too many other organizations feel as though they owe no one any explanations. They did not even have the decency to inform me of the ban. Only through third party did I learn when trying to register for state. I did not even know that forums such as this even existed. Again thank you! Such a simple answer would have prevented a lot of heartache and grief. Zero class on their part.

Dennis Edwards said:

I asked for an explanation of race number disparity. I am new to the BCA and CSI and I did not understand how a team has to win 8 games to our teams 14 to win the match. That's it.

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Out of curiosity, did whoever is running your event/league not have the ability to tell you that?

Our friend is there playing and won her 1st match 8-3 against a player 50 points higher in Fargo. Next match tonight against K McIntosh, won't be so lucky against her.

Yowser, only two players in the field are from outside North America (of course, that counts Tkach and Fefilova-Styer as American). Still, it's a very weak field, but that's understandable in the wake of two women's majors back-to-back in the last two weeks in Asia. Kudos to Tkach and Fefilova-Styer for finding the energy to play this week.

It's a good opportunity for some of the second-tier pros to make a statement. Wish all of these ladies the best of luck. May the best woman win!

fuggles said:

Are you playing one of the CSI leagues? If so, pattern racking is against the rules.

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That is not what the CSI rulebook says.

Effenbobsaget said:

How does everyone deal with opponents pattern racking against them? I've been trying to take the moral high ground but struggling to not spiral out on this topic.

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That's not cheating. I just about lost my $h17 back in the day when my opponent moved his coin an extra spot. When he refused to move it back and denied it and his friend backed him up, I ran 3 out(racks) to finish the set. Never gambled with him again. If I notice pattern racking I just mention without accusing to make sure to keep the racking random please.

Actually, Styer just won her match and Rachel Walters is up 7-1, those two will be matching up, that will be a good match to watch.

@iusedtoberich

skip100 said:

hard to imagine this won't be won by either Tkach or Fefilova-Styer.

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You'd be surprised. Veronique, Sofia, Ashley, and Caroline Pao all have a chance. There's also a chance that Rachel Walters (who lost to Veronique in the finals back in May of this year) or Jordan Helfery make it deep. All it takes is one slip and either Tkach or Styer go down. This is why I mainly watch the women, there's no one dominant player who runs rack after rack and wins, lots of back and forth.