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freds said:

We let the local shortstop (~200 Fargo points better than most other players) into the bank - by the rail - ring game. He wasn't allowed any one rail banks.

That didn't last too long.

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Bank ring game and golf though are 2 wildly different animals, although a good/great player can run both.

Our really good local guy had to go around 2x in golf to everyone else's 1x. Problem is that once he got a shot on the 3 hole (a good shot) he ran the rest of the holes unless congestion was present.

I have to laugh at all the online debate about the wild card pick of Januarta. It's playing into exactly what Frazer wants!

I expected her to go with the safe choice of Yapp because of his overall WNT rating, his reputation, his "loyalty" to Matchroom and his participation in the first two Reyes cups.

But I personally wanted Januarta. He's arguably been better than Yapp this year, and his inclusion just freshens up the event in my opinion. He and AJ are friends, it seems, but they both want to be stars. Could be fun to watch how they interact.

A wild card pick, what's more, is exactly that. A surprise pick that might work out well, or fail miserably. A wild card pick is not meant to go to the obvious choice. Januarta was not an obvious choice.

Looking at the list of top Asian players, the pickings among qualified players is also thin given the ineligibility of the Ko brothers and Chua. I think Oi should get an invite at least once to the event, but the only other players with a decent claim are Jefry Roda and maybe Chang Yu Lung.

Januarta and Manas appear to be the region's rising young stars. So why not.

fogboundturtle said:

Let me give you a better analogy. You may prefer driving a car with a manual transmission but a dual clutch transmission is by far faster and superior. It shift faster than any human can.

You say warpage is overstated but I am guess you don't live in a nordic country. One of my buddy had to replace his cue last month because it was beyond repair. The warpage was pretty bad. Guess what he did ? He bought a Predator Revo + Predator P3.

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So the moral of this story is that if I buy a carbon shaft my cue will be faster than it was with a wood shaft????

Lowell said:

I agree they're probably easier to clean, but I'm personally not bothered by my shaft blueing.

As for power, I already have the opposite problem where I hit balls too hard. And there are teenage girls like Savannah and Rhaki Constantino using wood shaft and getting loads of cue action, and petite women like Seo Seoa and Tianqi Shi playing at world class level.

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Take added power/speed as a good side effect. Pros don’t need it, most amateurs don’t need it if playing in good conditions. It’s handy with bad conditions.

The main benefit of CF is for traveling, it stays consistent and it’s more durable.
A local player can benefit from that as well but it’s not a good enough reason to ditch your wooden shaft and get a CF, but really, who needs a good enough reason to change or upgrade?
But if you are in the market for a new cue or shaft, whether it’s a first cue or just a new cue, might as well get a CF shaft and get used to it.

I’ve been playing and testing lately the Predator Centro shaft, it a hybrid shaft, a solid wood with a CF core at the front. It gives almost the same deflection performance of a CF (compared to the SMO), a bit less power. Really nice shaft but feels fragile with all the warnings on the ferrule. Might as well just a CF and an have a quiet piece of mind