My Fargorate progression

I'm hosting this tournament Monday night. I'm aiming for 16 players, but won't turn down more if more show up. I'll play in it unless I become player 17. If anyone is local, all are invited. Races will be to 5, and I have 8 tables available.

I'm going for a local monthly or quarterly open event. Not a regional event that takes all weekend. But a quick event that's done around midnight.

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I'm playing a challenge match tonight at 8pm eastern in DE. The guy is a 601, I'm a 576. We are playing race to 15 9 ball on a Diamond 7' for $100. Must use one cue the whole match. There will be a stream, run by the room, so I can focus on playing. I'll send a link when I have it.

I feel strong. I played last night and hardly missed a ball. If I can play the same way tonight, it should be a close match. I'll ask my man to do Solatto when I get there.
 
A few quick updates before I leave the house...

First it was my dad's 91's birthday today. We had a big cake and pie a few hrs ago. I'm still crashing. Ha ha. I didn't know about this match tonight until I already ate the cake. So I messaged my opponent that he better eat a cake too!

Second, last night I watched a 3min video of shane explaining his aiming system. I had seen it a few times before. But anyway, I said to myself after watching it "I'm not going to miss a ball the whole night". I go to the pool room to play in the tournament, and my first match is against a 600 (but he's 70 or so), and I beat him 4-0. The first rack I broke and ran. The second he broke and pushed. We had a safety battle a few innings, which I won the first offensive shot, and I ran out. Third game I missed one ball but still won. 4th game he broke and scratched, and I ran out. So one miss ball the whole set.

Second match I played another 600 and this time I missed 2 shots and he punished me good and beat me 4-2. Then I gambled with a few guys, and played super strong. I gave a 523 the 5 ball for 50 in a race to 7. This is a funny story, the first time I met him in my life a year ago I said to him jokingly "you've got the 5". Well in the year since, we've become friends. Last night I said to him I want to try you with the 5, see how I do. I shot great, and ended up losing hill-hill. It was def too much weight, but I wanted the challenge.
 
I had such a fun night!

I beat Derek 10-4. I felt strong during this set. But in retrospect, I don't think I played that well. Rather, when I missed he didn't punish me.

Next I played Rachel. She blanked me 11-0! She shot GREAT. And I shot bad. Every time I made a mistake, she ran out. I walked up to Derek mid set and said "this is how you must always feel playing me". He was side betting on her with me. When it was 10-0, she said something like "if I don't win this game it will will be like I lost" I said something like "for sure, you've got to finish the shutout"

2nd set I won 11-9. This set Rachel made a lot of mistakes, and she made them at the end of the rack, where I could capitalize on them.

3rd set I won 7-6. I was down I think 5-2. She broke and scratched. I ran out. 5-3. Then I had a break and run. 5-4. Then I broke and ran all the way down to the 7 or 8 (I forgot now). During the run I got super nervous, because it would have been a strong inning, and that's what I was thinking about. I forget who won that game, but it ended up hill-hill eventually. I played a kick, kicking the 2 into the 9 to win the set.

I was so happy, because I've been trying to beat her for months. I finally beat her tonight, my 2 sets to her 1.

We all had a great time, even the one's who lost.

This was also the first time I used OBS, and used DigitalPool to overlay the score. We had my iPad on the the table where we were inputting the score, and it updated the OBS very quickly. Nothing was on Salatto, just normal sets. The whole thing worked well I think. The sound was still not right, but I think it was decent to watch (production wise).
 
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Being a TD has taken its toll on my FR. In the past month and a half I went from a 577 to a 572, ending at 573. I did poorly in my own hosted tournaments. I got my ass handed to me in a Solatto match in Delaware against a 602, Andres. We played $100 a set, race to 15, on a tightened 4" or so Diamond barbox, put it on Solatto and streamed it. Then we played a second race to 15. Then a race to 7 finally. My record against him below:
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It funny, he and Rachel just beat the shit out of me, every time. Well exceeding the expected outcome. But there are a couple of other guys in the 590's that I think I am ahead of overall. (all the players I'm mentioning have over 1000 robustness). To my "eye test" Andres and Rachel are head and shoulders above the other two players. Such is averages:)
 
I also think 600 speed on a Diamond barbox is very close to pro speed from a viewing standpoint. Meaning, it's a good speed for a stream. If one player misses, the other is a good chance to run out completely. Plus, enough break and runs to make it worth watching. IMO after watching a lot of streams, and now hosting my own streams, we should be all playing on bar boxes IF STREAMED. Unless the player speed is about 680 or higher. It puts out a poor streamed show to have a 550-650 player on a 9' table. But on a barbox, those level players look decent.

Streamers: the absolute worst thing you can have is a tightened 9' table, UNLESS you have legit pros on it 750 and above. In my strong opinion.

Get rid of the crazy tight 9' tight tables as the stream table. It costs you your audience when the vast majority of players miss on them.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I also think 600 speed on a Diamond barbox is very close to pro speed from a viewing standpoint. Meaning, it's a good speed for a stream. If one player misses, the other is a good chance to run out completely. Plus, enough break and runs to make it worth watching. IMO after watching a lot of streams, and now hosting my own streams, we should be all playing on bar boxes IF STREAMED. Unless the player speed is about 680 or higher. It puts out a poor streamed show to have a 550-650 player on a 9' table. But on a barbox, those level players look decent.

Streamers: the absolute worst thing you can have is a tightened 9' table, UNLESS you have legit pros on it 750 and above. In my strong opinion.

Get rid of the crazy tight 9' tight tables as the stream table. It costs you your audience when the vast majority of players miss on them.
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Personally, I like to watch what I play on. So if that holds true across population, I guess bar table rotation would be a popular stream. For me, my top stream would be 1pocket on a super tight table, and bar table rotation with any caliber players would be at the very bottom. If you subscribe to Karl boyes theory, tight pockets are good for the viewer because missing creates drama
 
highkarate said:
Personally, I like to watch what I play on. So if that holds true across population, I guess bar table rotation would be a popular stream. For me, my top stream would be 1pocket on a super tight table, and bar table rotation with any caliber players would be at the very bottom. If you subscribe to Karl boyes theory, tight pockets are good for the viewer because missing creates drama
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I've become friendly with the owner of PA Pro Am pool. He has about 10k FB followers and hosts streaming events and also helps stream pro events. I asked him if there is any pattern to viewers. He told me the #1 hit to viewers is when a weak player is on, and they miss a shot. The live view count immediately drops a mile.

Watching legit pros miss a shot is different. That's a bit dramatic, because we don't expect them to ever miss. Watching 550-650 miss shot after shot because they are not good enough to put on a "show" on a tight 9' table is boring as F.
 
I actually think now if a local person is doing a stream of their action match, their first priority is to put on a good show for the viewers. Not to win the cash vs their opponent. If it takes a smaller table to do that, then so be it.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I've become friendly with the owner of PA Pro Am pool. He has about 10k FB followers and hosts streaming events and also helps stream pro events. I asked him if there is any pattern to viewers. He told me the #1 hit to viewers is when a weak player is on, and they miss a shot. The live view count immediately drops a mile.

Watching legit pros miss a shot is different. That's a bit dramatic, because we don't expect them to ever miss. Watching 550-650 miss shot after shot because they are not good enough to put on a "show" on a tight 9' table is boring as F.
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Fair enough. I don’t think I would find it any more boring than watching svb and filler alternate breaks and cruise through bar table 9 ball racks in 30 seconds
 
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