easy-e said:

Agree on the team thing. Here's the problem I see with it though... In AZ we had the Saguaro Cup, like the Mosconi Cup but with the best players from the East Valley going against the best players from the West Valley. It was awesome. After a few years, all of the NON-top players started to complain that they never get picked. So they all created a different team competition. Now they have East vs West for different fargo ranges. Everyone except the players over like 660 can participate. And the Saguaro Cup is dead.

Everything has to be fair, everyone has to be included. It's the way pool seems to work. It reinforces the idea that even pool players don't want to watch pool, they'd rather play.

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Yeah but that was a mix of good players and not so good players. I'm talking best of the best teams. No one would follow the cubs, the cowboys, the rangers if they mixed in high schoolers with the good players.

Chopdoc said:

Because it's funny I guess.

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I mean was it a mistake, a poor imitation, a way around a copyright or something?? What gives? You say only one exists and it's at the 'Smythsonean", I take it that is just a joke? Was the "Mazerak" just a bad copycat cue?? Are you poking fun at the OP?? I am having a tough time making heads or tails out of this thread. Maybe its time to go get one of those "no regerts" tatoos.

fastone371 said:

Doc's video shows that the chalk wears off of the cue ball with play, not that the cue ball picks up even more chalk. I think the table would have to be covered in an unusual amount of chalk for the balls to pick up enough chalk to cause skids.

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His table is a well maintained home table, not your average bar or pool hall.
Dirty balls will skid more than clean balls

The top 12 men in WPA rankings, in order, are as follows. Keep in mind Predator has three more events to go before the Allstar event. So there will be changes.

Wojciech Szewczyk,
Daniel Maciol
Joshua Filler
Carlo Biado
Wiktor Zielinski
Albin Ouschan
Fedor Gorst
FSR
Nayoyuki Oi
Aloysius Yapp
Alexander Kazakis
Szymon Kural


SVB is No. 28, Shaw 38, Neuhausen 42, Eklent Kaci 43, among other notable players.

FYI, here's a way to find the mirror image positions of pockets without "measuring" with your stick - just stand where the pockets and diamonds line up to "triangulate" your target pocket ("SIDE POCKET" or "CORNER POCKET" below), sight from there to the ball you're shooting and remember that point on the kick/bank rail.



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I currently have a blue one piece aluminum cue, I will have to put a tip on it and give it a try!!!!

This weeks Break Sheet issue is out. Free weekly U.S. tournament calendar, upcoming stops only. Sample of this issue:

Spine for Sep 11–Oct 12: PBS Vietnam, then PBS Bali, Spirit Lake Casino, the Twin Cities cluster, Palace City in Mitchell, then WPBA at Borderline.

Two of the bigger ones:
• Predator PBS, Ho Chi Minh City, Sep 19–26. Combined prize fund about $490,000 on the Predator/AZB release. Men’s 10-Ball World Championship is $300,000.
• WPBA Borderline Brunswick/Pechauer Invitational, Oct 7–11, Borderline Billiards, Bristol, TN. $20,000 added (WPBA, confirmed).

The full issue has the rest of the named stops, weekly rooms, and the fields I still have as unknown. Verify fees before you travel.

Issue: https://tournaments.beehiiv.com/p/break-sheet-sep-11-oct-9-tournament-calendar
Subscribe (free): https://tournaments.beehiiv.com/

It's true color is Charcoal Purple
and Vintaged White Maple.

Cue Builders Association Awarded

I wonder if Predator creating this all-star event put pressure on Matchroom to bring World Pool Masters back. Predator outlined this all-star event some months ago, but not the details.

Predator has also created their own, bigger version of the World Cup of Pool to take advantage of that event disappearing for the past few years.

Not sure Matchroom will bring the WCP back. Predator has really stolen its thunder.

Whatever the case, competition in general is good. Hope it pushes both “tours, of a sort, to new heights.

fastone371 said:

I did, its says that the cue says "Mazerak" but I still have no idea why it says "Mazerak" instead of Mizerak.

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Because it's funny I guess.