2014 World 9-Ball Championship

Four out of the 5 Filipinos could possibly be part of the quarterfinals, that's 50% of the remaining field, and the one who wouldn't make it is because he will be eliminated by his fellow countryman.
 
Niels is a man on a mission. Shane has been overseas for over a month now, if you count China open and this tournament, so he should be very comfortable. This could lead to some great fireworks. And also niels teammate van denberg. That could lead to a great match.

All very exciting
 
Last 16 - Evening session

Carlo Biado - 11 Ko Pin Yi - 7
Shane Van Boening - 11 Kuribayashi Tohru - 5
Li He Wen - 6 Nick Van Den Berg - 6
Johann Chua - 11 Waleed Majed - 8
Raymund Faraon - 8 Elmer Haya - 10
Wu Jia Qing - 9 Chang Yu Lung - 10
Niels Feijen - 11 Mario He - 6
Antonio Gabica - 10 Albin Ouschan - 7
 
corvette1340 said:
just pointing out that the Shane haters will openly discuss why his 2007 Predator World 10-ball championship shouldn't be considered a world title, yet Efren didn't win the '99 WPA world 9-ball championship and he was given a world title for winning a different matchroom even in the same year and nobody says a peep. I just find it funny.
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Yes! I would like to comment on this. The official WPA Championship was held in Alicante in Spain. It was hosted by the 'official' Spanish Federation, who were recognised by the WPA despite the fact that a rival Spanish federation had all the top players and should have been the bona fide member of the WPA. Back in those dark days the WPA was run by Thomas Overbeck and Jorgen Sandman.

The event was a disaster with tables packed into an undersized ballroom.
There was barely room for 20 people to spectate and the Prize Money was pathetic.

The event was won by Nick Varner.

A couple of months later I helped Matchroom to produce The World Professional Pool Championship in Cardiff. This was as far away from Alicante as it could possibly get.

A space age staging and set from which 1000 people could view a range of matches. Live television coverage daytime and evening. This was slick ground breaking stuff and world professional pool took a quantum leap with a quarter of a million dollar prize fund.

With their event shamed the WPA were not pleased and in a bid to inhibit the competiton they threatened to stop Euro players playing in the upcoming Mosconi Cup. Matchroom faced with a top level TV show being scuppered offered to take over the existing WPA tournament. You can probably read a sanitised version of this somewhere but this is the real McCoy]

Thus the events merged and Matchroom ran the WPA World 9 Ball Championship for four more years in Cardiff, two in Teipei and one in Manila. They boosted the prize money every year until eventually they were undercut by a local promoter and that marked the end of the growth of pool.

As part of the deal the WPA 'adopted' the 1999 event because nowhere is it written that a World Championship has to be an annual event. But technically it falls into the same class as Shane's Predator and Dragon's bogus 14.1 World events none of them have a WPA endorsement.

Even though it is retrospective the sheer scale of the World Professional Championship leaves no doubt that Efren ws the true PROFESSIONAL WORLD CHAMPION that year
 
I'm really liking the multi tables stream. The down time between shots and racks in most streams usually puts me to sleep before the match even gets going. This way, there is no down time. I just wish the event or even just the main table had commentary, then it would be perfect.
 
Gabica is out! Ouschan pulls out the thriller! Van den berg down 9-7 with his opponent running out. Shane and Yu Lung on the feature table.
 
I wonder how will be the stream in the finals when all will be glued to just one stream. Im afraid there will be problems with frame rate lagging.
 
arps said:
is it just me? or do i sense a biado-SVB in the fiinals??????
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That would be interesting, Biado beat Shane at Hard Times in 10 ball, but then Shane beat him at the 2013 US Open 8Ball where they both ran out 10 games each right after the next with alternate break. So it's hard to call that one.
 
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Kris_b1104 said:
That would be interesting, Biado beat Shane at Hard Times in 10 ball,but then Shane beat him in 8 Ball at the CSI event where they both ran out 10 games each right after the next with alternate break. So it's hard to call that one.
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carlo also eliminated shane in this same tournament last year. 2 weeks ago, it was also carlo who kicked shane out of the China Open, score is 11-4.
 
The entire tournament was going perfect, everything on time great matches, then wham they started the drawings, it seemed so out of place to me.
 
Shane would prefer to play anyone other than Biado if they do get to final
IMHO, the 2 finalists will be winners from these quartfinal matches Shane vs Chang and Biado vs Feijen

Wow, Shane behind 0-1 and Chang is breaking in 2nd rack :D
 
awesome nice 1-9 combo by Chang now leads Shane 2-0. He has stolen one of Shane's break:)
 
arps said:
is it just me? or do i sense a biado-SVB in the fiinals??????
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Maybe, but Shane must now face the hottest player on the planet in YL Chang. Including the China Open, Chang has won his last ten single elimination matches in WPA play. Absolutely incredible. So far, it's Chang leading 1-0. Wow! Chang just made a super-difficult 1-9 combo to go up 2-0. This should be a good one.
 
Damn, a fine tourney for ouschan too. He has stepped it up.

I guess it would be cool to see him take it down, anybody know who he's got next?
 
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