Recent content by Bob Jewett

Based on past WNT majors, play will start about 11 AM and end about 9PM local time. The final day will be just three matches -- the semifinals played in sequence and then the finals. The first three days are double elimination to get to 128 players. The Junior event starts on the third day and...

So..... You moved the cue ball other than by a shot?

Well, shipping is included. Tempting. The seller is Mark Stellinga who with his wife Connie wrote this book, based on their collection:

Being a WNT-run event, I'd expect the player list for scoring to come up on wntlivescores.com. Recently, I don't think those have been listing players until a few days before the start of the tournament. The next ranking event is the Mezz Bucharest (Romania) Open. It is full at 256 players with...

In the end, the player will have to rely on feel: Does this aim feel right? But when a player is learning aiming, I think a system does two things. First, it provides a framework for the player to categorize shots. It organizes the player's experiences. Perhaps more importantly, it makes the...

Here's the stream. Filler was making more mistakes early in the match than I've ever seen him make. Towards the end, he seemed to give up on jump shots.

I still have some extra copies of these 1970s pool newspapers.

The finals streams start in an hour, 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific.

Did the TD do anything other than the one warning?

I think the time estimates could be wrong in either direction by a factor of ten. For reference, the average FargoRated player with an established rating is a 470. It looks like there are 10,000 or so with ratings over 600. Another factor is how long they've been playing. A 400 with 20 years...

Mark me in the second column. Added to the list as possible.

First post updated to show the cancellation of two ranking events and the addition of two events in 2027 in Taipei

I think that the McDermott Open was not promoted or controlled by Matchroom. It seems to have been promoted by The Sharkstream: Someone mentioned that the McDermott Open was $400 entry, with $10k added, 64 player field. The Empire State Championship was looking for 128 players at $400 with...

2-3-5 is a billiard game on a pool table with three object balls --- the final shot of a sequence requires the cue ball to hit all three object balls. Two reds and a yellow object balls. First, hit a red and a yellow, then two reds and then hit all three. That gets you one point. If you pocket a...

Quickest would probably involve eight hour days on something like this, but more horizontal.