Thanks For "The Clash of the Titans"

Johnnyt

Johnnyt

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Thank you CPA and all the other sponsors for bringing us this great event. Also a big thank you to Inside Pool for the free quality streaming. Hope this event and others in the same format catches on. I believe show casing the top names will help pull in more mainstrem fans as they learn players names and tune in to watch their favorite players compete. Johnnyt
 
Clash of TITANS

I agree, this was a very enjoyable stream. I really like this format. I just wish I could have stayed awake for all of it.
 
Another great service is that the recorded stream will be housed on ustream for viewing later.




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It was a great match. Great format. The ball count instead of wins, no jump shots was a nice change. Good quality stream.

As we were constantly reminded by the commentators everyone was having fun and a great time. :clapping:


The million dollar question: Would Earl be in favor of this?



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I must have missed this. Who is CPA, and where did this occur? Was this a gambling match, or was it at a tournament?
 
JAM said:
I must have missed this. Who is CPA, and where did this occur? Was this a gambling match, or was it at a tournament?
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It was held in Toronto, CAN this last weekend. CPA is APA but the Canadian version ('C' instead of 'A'). It was an invlite of 4 players, SVB, Alex, Morra & Klatt (please forgive me if I have any of the names wrong). All Canadians, but Shane, but it was invitation only for SVB & Alex, the other two earned their way into it.

Dave
 
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12squared said:
It was held in Toronto, CAN this last weekend. CPA is APA but the Canadian version ('C' instead of 'A'). It was an invlite of 4 players, SVB, Alex, Morra & Clatt (please forgive me if I have any of the names wrong). All Canadians, but Shane, but it was invitation only for SVB & Alex, the other two earned their way into it.

Dave
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How interesting and cool! Thanks for the explanation! :cool:
 
like i said on the chat yesterday, "of all the streams i have seen, this one, with the commentary, hd pic, interview with SVB, well, just the best i have ever seen". thanks to all involved.....what a great stream. had to leave early while SVB was playing klatt, but was late for 9 ball match (i won), heck, after seeing all the great pool how couild i miss! a job well done fellas. high 5's and better yet, make it a 10! :grin:
 
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It was a great match. Great format. The ball count instead of wins, no jump shots was a nice change. Good quality stream.

As we were constantly reminded by the commentators everyone was having fun and a great time. :clapping:


The million dollar question: Would Earl be in favor of this?



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Just to clarify these rules....Jump shots were allowed, but not jump cues. This I totally agree with.
 
Its not CPA, its CP EH in Canada.

I was in total awe. I don't believe I have ever seen that caliber of talent game after game.
The 4 players were phenomenal. Thoroughly entertaining.

Thanks to John Croft, CPA and the Inside Pool Mag and of course the live stream and commentary were fantastic. Whoever it was, I enjoyed listening to them. I never had a glitch or lag for the 2 days.

I also enjoyed the 9 Ball CPA format of the event.

I'm going to get a Tee shirt, can't beat the 15 dollar price tag.
 
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It was a great match. Great format. The ball count instead of wins, no jump shots was a nice change. Good quality stream.

As we were constantly reminded by the commentators everyone was having fun and a great time. :clapping:


The million dollar question: Would Earl be in favor of this?



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Yeah...it was fun...the Croft family are good league operators.
Shooters and Le Spot were co-sponsors.

..but would Earl have liked it?...don't think so...
...Alex and Shane were 'slow-breaking' in the finals and batting close
to a thousand...the wing ball was going in and they were playing shape
on the one-ball.

When I was young, the break was worth the 8 on normal conditions.
When Shane and Alex play on a bar-box, the break is worth the 6-7-8.

Alex charmed everybody and won...but Shane now has a bunch of
Canucks who think the world of him.

pt..<...who's upset with Calvert for not answering his question....
....I just wanted to know who shot JR..:D
 
Really enjoyed it, didn't make it through the end so I'll check out the vid's after they have been posted. Wouldn't mind playing under those rules sometime (still would like be able to use a jump stick though).
 
What a great event and i do believe that this format can change the game of 9ball. I am a division rep for the cpa and was lucky enough to be able to commentate this great event with J.R Calvert and the whole insidepool family for the weekend...... just by reading what everyone was saying on the chats and what you all are saying here on az is that this was indeed a great event. And next year it will be even better........and bigger. And for those who knocked me when i said in a thread called " Alex vs Earl lets get it on" that this event was going to take place..... Guess all i can say is ......... told ya so EH.. In a few days this whole event wiil be posted on youtube so stay tuned.
 
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Yes, this was a great stream...and a really great tournament!!!

I loved it!

Great commentary, great interviews, lots of questions, questions from the viewers...

The only thing to make it better to me, is to have more of them !!!



Great job guys !!!
 
I was able to watch quite a bit of the streaming, and I'm appreciative of being able to do so. Thank you to all involved.

Here are a few observations that are a bit different from what I have read so far.
- The event ended at about 2:30 in the morning Toronto time and could have gone on quite a bit longer if Shane had tied the finals at 2 sets apiece. With a 4-person event, running that late really is unnecessary. I'll just attribute this to the imponderables in planning the first event of this type.

- Kind of related to my first point, more is not necessarily better. Instead of best-of-5 sets to 75 points, perhaps best-of-3 sets to 100 points would be enough. Alternatively, did the round-robin portion during the first two days really accomplish much (it "seeded" the 4 players for the single-elimination finals)? Wouldn't a random-draw double-elimination format accomplish about the same thing? That would have produced a total of 6 matches instead of the 9 that were played.

- I'm not a bar-box player, but watching this event makes me think that 9-ball on a bar box is too easy for players of this caliber. They regularly made 2, 3, or 4 balls on the break (including a wired wing ball), leaving short run-outs on a small table.

- The format of one point per ball (plus a one-point bonus for the 9-ball) was interesting to see for the first time (I'm not in the APA or CPA), but I doubt that it produced any significant difference (in terms of who won each set) from normal scoring for these pros. Perhaps it does make a difference for the less-skilled players of the leagues.​

So, those are some of my thoughts. I'm a glutton for watching pro pool, so I did enjoy it.
 
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