Kozoom has a 24/7 streaming channel on YouTube. They stream pool, snooker, and 3C. The cool thing is that every time I've watched a 3C match it has had commentary in English by none other than Torbjorn Blomdahl. They aren't current matches - last one I saw was the 2018 world championship finals between Jaspers and Bury. And you have no ability to select -- you just get what heppens to be streaming. But the Blomdahl commentary is outstanding. He knows what the players will shoot, if there are kiss dangers, how the player will try to avoid kisses, positional considerations, match psychology, the whole 9 yards.
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Agreed. I've had it on for weeks and the content is just brilliant.
There's also BilliardTV, somehow I've managed to make it an app selection on the bottom of my TV as well... always something playing on there.
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That looks as if it is primarily pool. While sometime when I click on the Kozoom 24/7 Livestream I get a pool match, mostly I get 3C. And when Blomdahl and our own Bert Van Manen are doing the commentary it is a rare treat for billiards players, 3C in particular. Someone up thread described it perfectly, "Brilliant".There's also BilliardTV, somehow I've managed to make it an app selection on the bottom of my TV as well... always something playing on there.
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Thank you for those kind words. As for Las Vegas (see other thread), Kozoom is no longer involved. Five & Six (formerly Kozoom Korea) will stream all World Cups on YouTube in the foreseeable future, though. I'll be in the booth, and Torbjörn will most likely join me if / once he's out of the tournament. Sophie's choice for me: I want him to win the event, but I love to do commentary with him.
I just watched a World Cup match from 2017 with Blomdahl v. DK Kang where Blomdahl (who was getting trounced) was doing the commentary. I assume you, he, and others added the commentary for the Kozoom stream after the fact?
I've watched some of the matches from the Europe versus Asia team match. What a team of longtime greats on that Europe side, a veritable aristocracy of 3C. And yet the Asian side trounced them. Was that a changing of the guard, in your opinion?
You'd almost be forced to discuss home advantage (which in my opinion is always a rather minor factor in 3-cushion). The first edition of the Continental Cup (held in France) was a huge win for Europe, the second edition (held in Seoul) was an equally landslide win for Asia. The unusual format has something to do with it, in my opinion. Very short (25 pt) matches where all previous matches are carried over. If you get the momentum in the first or the first and second match, you are in the driver's seat. And in Seoul 2019, Myung Woo Cho, Ngo Dinh Nai, Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, Jae Ho Cho and a few others played just brilliantly. The Europeans didn't give it away, they were beaten fair & square.