there will be only 3 rounds for all 16 players in the second stage, there will be 1 round tonight, and t 1 round tomorrow morning and 1 round tomorrow afternoon except the final match tomorrow night.
2015 World Chinese 8 Ball Masters field looks amazing
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there will be only 3 rounds for all 16 players in the second stage, there will be 1 round tonight, and t 1 round tomorrow morning and 1 round tomorrow afternoon except the final match tomorrow night.
Looks like they are playing the knockout single elim right now
Live score
http://www.zs8q.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=127875&extra=page=1
Big matchup Champ playing runner up of last years event
Gareth Potts v Shi Hanqing
Don't know which match they are streaming as am on slow mobile now
Check out the live streams links
http://alison-chang.com/calendar/
Would appreciate if someone provide commentary. .
Hopefully someone puts these on Youtube later
commentators are speaking chinese. and video of ALL matches will be published on www.youku.com within next month or so, so you probably will find them on youtube later.
is that a joke?...
tables are same size and balls are the same. Replace napped cloth with Simonis and make the pockets bigger would only make it easier for them, not harder. I would imagine it would be pretty much them same deal as when the E8B players moved discipline.
I don't think it was a joke...sadly. Like you say, a couple of days getting used to the cloth and rails and they would be able to compete at the highest level in 8b. Maybe a week or so longer to get used to 9 and 10b.
English pool players...the really good ones...generally come from snooker backgrounds or at least can put in some high breaks in the game. So, even though a E8B table is the size of a barbox, they don't have issues moving to a larger table because they've played snooker to a decent level at one point.
English pool players...the really good ones...generally come from snooker backgrounds or at least can put in some high breaks in the game. So, even though a E8B table is the size of a barbox, they don't have issues moving to a larger table because they've played snooker to a decent level at one point.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. So only 8 players have a chance to win the event.
Edit -- then I looked at this and became a bit confused again: http://www.zs8q.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=127888. English brackets somewhere?
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Anyone have any idea why Anna Mazhirina was in this event? From what I can tell, she has finished high in a few Euro Tour women's events, but she seemed not to be even remotely of the same skill level as the other players in this event. In her five matches she won 18 games and lost 65 (although, curiously, she got 5 games against Potts!).
Who replaced Shane? He appears in the print and video promo material for this event, but did not play. Could Mazhirina have been a last-minute replacement for Shane? If so, was she the best player available?
Who replaced Shane? He appears in the print and video promo material for this event, but did not play. Could Mazhirina have been a last-minute replacement for Shane? If so, was she the best player available?
Did she have to be the best player available? Earl and Hendry weren't the best players available either. Just like with them, my guess is the promoter wanted variety for promotional reasons.
Ron Swanson
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Earl replaced shane, i presume. Shane wants no part of this game and the humiliation it offers.
You're probably correct. I just don't like to see players in group round-robin events that are way below the others. It kind of creates a "bye" situation for everyone else in the group, raising their chances of moving on (from 4 out of 6 to 4 out of 5, e.g.).
I don't think so; both Earl and Shane were in a video promo/intro being shown on the stream.
And it looks like Melling and Wang had to play again right away, and that time Wang won. How fleeting is success!
So if I read the charts correctly, is Potts the only non-Chinese player left standing in the final 8?
All the non-Chinese players except Potts lost in that last round, but I don't think I fully understand the brackets at this point. I'm not even sure who were the top 2 from each group, because the group-results page I find is still not fully filled in. Maybe JayKidd will further clarify it for us.
Charts and brackets here, but all in Chinese :frown:
http://www.zs8q.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=127888&aid=69616&from=album&page=1&mobile=2
http://www.zs8q.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=127888&aid=69616&from=album&page=1&mobile=2
Yes, but is there anyone who can read this and translate for the sake of us who can't read Chinese? Which players are still left?
Sad really. I like Chinese 8-ball "alot" as a game and think it could have huge potential, but i completely agree that the presentation is simply a fail for the event.
It boggles my mind that over and over we get these events that add huge money, they pay Stephen Hendry hge money to promote the game, and the promoters blow it by not paying some bilingual person who speaks and writes Chinese AND English $25 an hour to update the website for the fans watching the event from where almost half of the players are actually from.
I mean cripe, Alex, Earl, Boyes, Hendry, Appleton, Melling, ect... what is the freaking point putting all the effort into getting these English speaking players from English speaking countries with English speaking fans into the event and then having NO way for English speaking fans to even follow the event? Is this "really" this freaking hard to figure out? Is this akin to rocket science for pool promoters to think of these types of seemingly simple things? I am starting to think so...
The lack of interest in this game will be pinned on the game by many people here, but the reality is the presentation of the event is failing the game bigtime!
It boggles my mind that over and over we get these events that add huge money, they pay Stephen Hendry hge money to promote the game, and the promoters blow it by not paying some bilingual person who speaks and writes Chinese AND English $25 an hour to update the website for the fans watching the event from where almost half of the players are actually from.
I mean cripe, Alex, Earl, Boyes, Hendry, Appleton, Melling, ect... what is the freaking point putting all the effort into getting these English speaking players from English speaking countries with English speaking fans into the event and then having NO way for English speaking fans to even follow the event? Is this "really" this freaking hard to figure out? Is this akin to rocket science for pool promoters to think of these types of seemingly simple things? I am starting to think so...
The lack of interest in this game will be pinned on the game by many people here, but the reality is the presentation of the event is failing the game bigtime!
