What do you think of the new break? Eurotour
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in order to appreciate the new format, we might as well also peek at what we ultimately want to avoid.
I like the new break rules, "Sanne" Azar won 3 games at the tournament, and he told me he also likes it, I see at my poolroom that many regulars has adopted this new break rule already when they play friendly games.
not eurotour...
These "new" break rules are not really new. They were used for the US Open 9-Ball Championship (2014-2017) and the International 9-Ball Open (2018, 2019, 2021). One difference, though, is that the pockets for most of those events were standard pro-cut (4½" corners) rather than the 4¼" used at the European Open. And the break box looked to me to be about an inch narrower (to each side of center) for the European Open than for those other events.
tomatoshooter
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I've only watch a bit from the Euro Open but I saw dry breaks and difficult layouts, I think it's good that it's a bit harder top run away with a match. We'll see if they figure this out. Even so, I doubt they can achieve the reliability they had with 1 on the spot and breaking from the rail.
I am definitely going to give it a go.
Watching matches is a (viewership game) at some point someone is sponsoring the camera work, recording and live part of the performance and someone has to want to watch it. Is that affected by the length of the match? It's entertaining for those who like watching 2 plus hours of Pool but I prefer the match not go over 1. 50 hours in some regards. The play between these two is awesome. Aranus sure has come a long way. I did about half of it today and will start the other half in the morning. So far there's been no 4 packs, but each player has had 3 or more break and runs.
tomatoshooter
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I think packages should be the exception not the rule. With winner breaks, a race needs to be about twice as long as the biggest package for it to be deciding who is the better player, not who had the better set. With alternate break, I see a lot of matches that come down to "breaking serve once". The matches I watched from the Euro Open had both players getting several chances at the table, I didn't feel like one missed shot cost the entire match.
AtLarge hasn’t posted stats for the full event. But he did post them for that match.
The successful-break percentage was 100% for both players. (If that’s not a broken format, what is?)
Break and Runs
Ko at 50% on 6 of his 12 breaks
Aranas at 75% on 9 of his 12 breaks
Total at 63% (15 of 24) overall
The breaker won 88% (21 of 24) of the games.
I found the entire event unwatchable.
What abut a break rule where the cue (tip) is not allowed to leave a mark on the table ?
It was alternate break.
kozoom? i thought i read billiardstv
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www.kozoom.com, then you click LIVE, you may need to log in (or create account first) and you may watch 11 tables to chose from.
I still can't find where it says "live". Are you sure you didn't leave something out of your description?
I just don't understand if they want people to watch why make them have to be mind readers too.
I went to "skit live" and then it opened a box that said, "admin login" Am I supposed to assume I'm an admin?
These folks need to get their act together if they want watchers. This is terrible.
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