Ultimate Pool Shootout North Carolina bracket
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Unbelievable, one mistake, dry break, and you loose in a race to 6.
the only shot missed in 11 racks lol
not too shabby
JABSolstice
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It was similar in the final. All break and runs, except for 2 dry breaks from Bergman. The last two matches, not a single ball was missed, nor safety played.
i would think the fargo is all based on big table pool, he plays the 9-ball tour in UK. do UP even report to fargo? most other brits are not rated
agree,
i feel most people watching are 9ball players that dont play much competitive 8b on bar tables
less with conditions that are not brand spanking new cloth and balls. that, along with the highest skill levels around make 8b a run out game as shown here by the pros
rodney made several mistakes that would have cost anyone a rack, i believe one rack he had to break open the 8 two times in the match with justin
styer made the same mistake anyone can playing it by running into balls and getting hooked/ and tieing up open balls
even seen joe prince do this
ive seen roberto gomez hook himself on the backside of an opponents ob ball by running full into it
8b is the perfect bar table game
One of the more incredible claims I've ever read on the forum. I wonder if there is even a single pro player that agrees with you. You get $20,000 for showing up and an extra $20,000 if your team wins. Nobody is going to plan their entire year to be in their top form for the Mosconi. Do you think the Asians consider it the most important event in pool?
On the brighter side, while not even one of the three Europeans that won a WNT major this year was on Team "Rest of the World" at the almost embarrassing Reyes Cup, at least Filler, Labutis, and Alcaide won't be on the sidelines, so the Mosconi will offer a much higher grade of pool than that displayed at the Reyes Cup.
Uninformed. Tyler was probably the top performer on Team USA in 2024. Similarly, his unexpectedly fine performance in 2018 had a lot to do with ending Team USA's losing streak.
America has five of the Top 100 players in the world based on Fargo, four if you don't count Gorst. Two of them are, more or less, retired from 9ball competition. In fact, the only two active Americans in the Fargo Top 100 are Shane and Skyler. Americans, as a group, have combined for exactly one WNT major since the tour began. There may be a little pride riding on the outcome here, but even if Team USA were to win 11-0, they would remain way behind Europe as cueists.
I love the Mosconi, and I'll attend my twelfth in a few weeks, but it's an exhibition, hardly a major competition. It is, however, an enduring festival of pool and attendees always enjoy it.
Actually, unlike the members of Team Europe, all five team members of Team USA will be competing at the International Open in Florida the week before the Mosconi. They will also hold private sessions to prepare. That's good enough for me.
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Some solid play, but the commentary was mind-blowing. For them to be awed by a player not missing a single ball in a bar table eight ball race to six is hilarious. No, it's not historic.
Congrats to the champion. Well played.
Fargo includes 7 foot results. There have been a number of threads here about it:
sure, but that's in general. in the case of his UP matches, i don't think so.. at least the absence of waddingham, brennan, thompson et al indicates it doesn't
maybe mike can shed some light on this. either way 737 probably has him in the top echelon of the GB9. the brits are doing about as bad as the americans when it comes to new growth.
Below are the active GBR players above 725, with Joe Prince on this list.
We're not currently importing UP games. It would probably be fine to do so. Games played with somewhat different rules on perhaps different equipment that would seem at first glance to taint the ratings generally actually improve the ratings. That is because their main effect occurs far away (in the spiderweb network) from the players actually playing in a place where the concerns people have are averaged out. The impact of improving the network generally overshadows the small dings from an occasional "specialist" in the unusual environment or unfamiliar players dabbling. Still, we're at this point not importing them.
Prince has about 300 games on 7' and 8' tables (Bogies in Houston, Piazzas in CO, Iowa)
another about 1000 games on 9' tables
UK Open,. Scottish Open, European Open, Great Britain 9-Ball Tour (GB9), London's Finest Pool (LFP), and Total 9-Ball
Performance is pretty similar everywhere in those games.
Badpenguin
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It's only money.
Bergman over Thorpe any day, you should never just pick your friends, especially when the entire damn country wants you to win.
I know Bergman doesn't like to travel, but there's gotta be something to get him motivated.
I'm not Stu, but....
Mosconi Cup in the UK -- about $800 in airfare, $500 in tickets (not full VIP) $250/night for a room for five or eight days, $100/day in incidentals.
Most events in the US are about half of that.