wojciech, albin, niels, mario, there's a bunch of players i'd pick before pecelj.. but this was his first event of this sort, so there's room for improvement
and with FSR apparently on another high. funny kind of player. streaky.
but it's not as easy as to say team asia had their hands tied with the wildcard picks. they would need the heyball defectors to be really competitive;
lil ko
biado
chua
wu jiaqing
yapp or big ko
that would be a close match.
i would rather say that asian pool is fractured, with chinese pool siphoning off a lot of talent. it showed in the bali event recently what talent that often isn't released onto american pool, with mi le reaching the final. and we all know what the ko brothers and chua can do
ffs..
i guess there are no military bases left to bomb in bahrain, so in that sense it ought to be safer than saudi. but how about getting out of the area altogether? and never returning