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Shaw and Savannah beat Kristina & Dimitris Loukatos. Loukatos played about as bad as I've ever seen a professional play in an event like this. He must have had a half dozen poor shots and another half dozen that looked like they just pulled a random guy out of the crowd to play with Kristina. It...

I mean he also sounds like he's smoked a pack a day for 30 years

And Shane only did that because of his disability. It's not that we need a few more guys to do this and we are all set, we need a culture where it's really freaking cool and aspirational to be one of the best players in the world. You need hundreds of guys spending 10 hours a day working on...

Tournament was in Wichita, I live close enough to follow the Facebook page of the pool room that hosted it. Jamie (sp?) Cockrum won it and played quite well from what I saw. This was no disrespect to Greg, who might be one of the most dedicated players in the country in his own right...

Btw, Greg Hogue, who I just watched lose two straight sets to a 620 Fargo in a barbox 9-ball tournament last week, was 1 rack away from qualifying for the Mosconi cup on points a couple years ago. Miss me with this "but, but, but life's not fair" BS

This is gonna be fake news. Are we to believe that Matchroom, who desperately wants/needs the USA to be competitive, is actively giving Team Europe an advantage like that?

She's 15 and has improved tremendously in the last 2-3 yrs. Fedor is indeed quite entrepreneurial, but do you think anyone >700 Fargo in the United States not named Shane (and maybe Tyler Styer) spends more time trying to improve their game than Fedor?

Yeah idk about Hatch and Morris but post-break, aside from Fedor & Shane, I'm not sure there's anyone better at potting balls and running out in this country...and that's with 65 yr old eyes and no ability to jump

Yeah, I mean this type of sorry ass attitude is why USA is lagging behind the rest of the world. Representing USA in the Mosconi cup should be a bi-product of a pursuit to be the best player you can possibly be, it shouldn't be the goal itself. It's far less cool to swallow your pride, hire a...

All joking aside, this cut shot from Billy might have been the worst shot I've ever seen on a Matchroom broadcast, apart from maybe some of those 1st round US Open matches with the random 520 Fargo guy from like Danville, Virginia who happened to draw Fedor or Shane

Attitude and antics aside, I think it's time to admit that Earl Strickland might actually be one of the 5 best Americans for this event........... Scott said it best during the last match - it felt like every single ball could be missed

Was it officially 0-4 at the end of day 1? I'm at work and can't find anywhere that actually shows the results.

It does a lot to ease the nerves when you know your opponent is very capable of giving you the table back if you blunder, and you know everyone on your team is at worst a toss-up against everyone else on the other side.

My proposal would be- Team Philippines - Matchroom chooses a captain and they can field a team of whatever pinoys they'd like. Team ROW - Team is chosen by Matchroom points only - pure meritocracy. Top 5 are automatically in and if someone opts out it moves down to #6, 7, etc. I'd recommend...

Why? It's tough to see how making public which great players chose not to play in your event brings your event any modicum of prestige