Recent content by juggler314

I get that pool is in decline - but I agree - this event is run terribly. Look up my posts from eleven ****ing years ago about how DP can't run an event well. 11 years and it's no better. I feel like it gets put on every year just because. You could do it every other year or something if...

I mean seriously - the tournament is NEXT WEEK and the info section still has the 2015 information in it. You know why pool doesn't have more money and a better following - because people can't even be bothered to setup a functional useful website - let alone running tournaments in a way that...

That's funny you think the website might have any relevant information. Just wait until it actually starts, you'd be lucky to have any updates at the end of the day let alone as it's going on. Every year since 2007 I've been *****ing about this and have even directly called them out. I get that...

I think you are touching upon a bit that most people don't quite grasp. How important your average shot made is. Look at just a simple 9 ball rack. Assuming you make 1 ball on the break, running out the other 8 balls - even if you assume a 95% make - makes for only a 66% chance of running out...

I tend to agree with this while at the same time being extremely against any sort of sandbagging. Here are some examples of "handicap" management that make perfect sense. You have a strong player on your team, you know he/she is bound to go up sooner or later. You also know you are playing in...

Heh - not a bad idea, not sure if it would be all that exciting. Do you really want to watch me run 14 and miss my break shot over and over (or run 13 and miss position on the key ball?:-D

Even if I think one poster brought up changing the rules if this happens. I would have to side with that. A large part of this game is a certain amount of strategy, if you could find a shot that went with a good enough percentage to be worth shooting on a full rack - it would radically change...

Here's the Ortman Ouschan match - 3.5 hours! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeE2oJ_njhw&feature=youtu.be higher res source 640x480, but the crappy equipment I bought that day...did not record correctly to my computer (looks like I may have not deinterlaced it). So it's got some jaggy lines a...

Didn't know, verified - uploading now, will take a few hours though - their uploader is pretty slow even though I have a crazy fast connection here (FiOS is awesome in case anyone was wondering).

I have the Oortman vs Ouschan match too, I think I need to transcode it - that one is bigger (640x480) and the file size is 2.5GB - free vimeo only lets you upload 500GB/week. Also something was off on the recording - interlacing I think. I'll have to see if i can re-encode it down to just a...

Well it's only 4 years later - but here is the link to this video: https://vimeo.com/46879643 the quality is pretty terrible, between the original only being 320x240 at 150k and the transcoding vimeo did. C'est la vie.

Nah - that's unfair and probably not true. I think it's far more likely that they are just crap at organizing and promoting events. Yes they do have a hand in a fair number of events - but by that measure they should be pretty damned good at this by now.

Give DP a break, the interwebz are hard, you need to be a l33t h4x0r to make timely updates...

It's not really that surprising - this is how it was run last year, and the year before that and the year before that. You'd think that DP would learn from one year to the next - my guess is they don't give two shits about disseminating information in a timely fashion. There's not much bottom...

I coudn't agree with this more. One thing that he didn't point out, that, if you don't follow artistic pool, is that there are clearly two different sets of trick shot competitions. You've got the ones that are like what you see on tv, that's really the "circus" stuff that he is referring to...