Ah-Here she is
China Open
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Ah-Here she is
It’s possible to be both money-hungry and money-stupid.
sounds cute.
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Canucks ain’t gettin’ no respect these days
Here is a video of the final match (joined in progress):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI681wG5jAk
The table doesn't look flimsy to me. Hard to tell without bumping it. The brand is Xing Pai which I've never heard of before.
They seem to be using Cyclop "Hyperion" balls but it says "Hyper" on the banner. They are distinguished by octagonal "rings" around the numbers. Perhaps their manufacturing issues continue.
As for Shaw's complaints, should a player keep his mouth shut if he feels that things aren't being done properly? If there are gaps in the rack, it makes a huge difference at nine ball. I thought everyone knew that by now. He's playing for real money -- the difference between $40,000 and $20,000. If he sees gaps that hurt his chances is he supposed to just suck it up and hit the balls a little harder? The real problem is that they're playing nine ball. (Where's Paul S. when you need him?
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Here is a video of the final match (joined in progress):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI681wG5jAk
As for Shaw's complaints, should a player keep his mouth shut if he feels that things aren't being done properly? If there are gaps in the rack, it makes a huge difference at nine ball. I thought everyone knew that by now. He's playing for real money -- the difference between $40,000 and $20,000. If he sees gaps that hurt his chances is he supposed to just suck it up and hit the balls a little harder? The real problem is that they're playing nine ball. (Where's Paul S. when you need him?
If i somehow gave you the impression that I thought Shaw was wrong, that certainly wasn't my intention. I was trying to get the point across that the promoters did not make having top equipment a priority imo. "Looking flimsy" is indeed subjective. During the Miami Vice years i left a Neiman Marcus store because "Everything looks so chintzy!" (They had all these thin wrinkly pants and sports jackets). I never went back either though 3/4 of a mile from my house.
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Well, that was very rude....I finally found a site to ask who won the ladies’ side...
...they said “FU.”..."...
No, I was responding to several other comments above.
I see no likely implementation of a solution to the racking problem although maybe a couple of solutions are available.
In the meantime, I think anyone who says that a player has no right to complain about a particular rack needs to see the rack before they comment.
As for changing the balls out....
In the 1976 World Championship (14.1) in Asbury Park, NJ, they were using a new style of ball (made by Hyatt, prior to Aramith dominance) with Roman numerals IIRC. It turned out that the 3s, 5s and 7s often had bulging eyes (where the number is) and the diameter through the eyes was out of spec (more than 2.255 inches). Fortunately there were lots of spare sets and someone there had thought to bring a ball gauge and full sets for the four tournament tables were assembled prior to the start of the tournament. Football-shaped balls tend to roll in circles.
Maybe the balls were changed out in the China Open because there was a known problem.
It is not new. If you're ever going to be at tournament I'm going to, remind me to bring my very remarkable Cyclop 3 ball. There was a video of a player lagging (Hohmann?) a diamond from side rail. He scratched. It was not the table's fault.
You call them STARS which you have heard of and, Bob calls them XING PAI Brand he has never heard of. Are we all taking about the same table ?
Warren Kiamco for one but at that time they were racking their own. The ref got involved. If they reracked for Jason, there was a problem. They were not going to go through gyrations without cause for some crazy Scott.
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Ko asked for a re-rack in the finals once that I recall. Shaw asked for a re-rack 7,241 times, so it wasn’t really close.
I watched a little of the Ko v Wu semi, and both players did.
I'm too lazy to look it up, but how did Shane do and also did Filler play as well?
Xing Pai (星牌) literally means Star(s) brand, but I think there's more than one Star brand of billiard tables out there
Shane went two and out, losing to Mario He and Shaw.
Filler made it to the last 32 before losing.
Thanks for the translation. I was going by a label I saw on the table in the game Oi ran out to win a match in the early rounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKzymHfw8Q
It looks like the labelling is different from the other end, and the score graphic seems to covers most of the foot skirt.
Bejing XingweiSports is parent co. XingPai-STAR is their table line. https://xingpaibilliard.en.china.cn/about.html