Ultimate pool brackets and results

Having watched the semifinal matches, and part of the finals, I have come to the conclusion the UPL format is even worse than the ball-count formats like VNEA. It's great when the pros and 700+ players are playing, but it ceases to be real pool when the amateurs are playing. When the announcer, who is trying to promote the UPL, says that the player for the team in the lead should NEVER even try to pocket a ball, and try to make the first game last all 30 minutes, how in the world is that real pool? How are these 300 and 400 Fargo players ever going to improve when they are rewarded for not trying to win the game? How could that be fun for anyone?
 
JohnnyOzone said:
Having watched the semifinal matches, and part of the finals, I have come to the conclusion the UPL format is even worse than the ball-count formats like VNEA. It's great when the pros and 700+ players are playing, but it ceases to be real pool when the amateurs are playing. When the announcer, who is trying to promote the UPL, says that the player for the team in the lead should NEVER even try to pocket a ball, and try to make the first game last all 30 minutes, how in the world is that real pool? How are these 300 and 400 Fargo players ever going to improve when they are rewarded for not trying to win the game? How could that be fun for anyone?
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The 2-1 final score after 30 minutes was just stupid, and I agree 100% with your comments. Couple that with slop counts anywhere even on the 8 and you have a format that they took everything about pool and flipped it.
Regular league no clock - UPL 30 minutes
Reg no shot clock - UPL 30 seconds
Reg no slop on balls - UPL slop counts anywhere
Reg call 8 or mark pocket - UPL hit um hard and they can go anywhere
Reg tie score/tie score - UPL see who can run 6 balls the quickest

Those are a good start.
 
Oh, let's add this too.
Heart break for Gerson Martinez Boza In on the 8-ball to go up 6-5 with the break and loses on a technicality!!! In Ultimate Pool USA, if the cue ball is frozen to a ball, you must shoot away from it. Gerson shot the shot like anyone would in international 8-ball competition but it was a foul in the Ultimate Pool rules. He loses the rack, then scratches his following break and never gets back to the table. Congrats to Tyler Styer for making it to the Finals.
 
I like it. Love the shot and match clocks.

The slop thing doesn't bother me. 9-ball is all slop all the time. In all honesty, luckbox shots are few and far between.

And I like the multidisciplinary format. Just like DCC.

And it takes care of two of the biggest complaints people have about league play - people not paying attention to the match (for whatever reason, but mostly phones), and slow play.
 
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JohnnyOzone said:
Having watched the semifinal matches, and part of the finals, I have come to the conclusion the UPL format is even worse than the ball-count formats like VNEA. It's great when the pros and 700+ players are playing, but it ceases to be real pool when the amateurs are playing. When the announcer, who is trying to promote the UPL, says that the player for the team in the lead should NEVER even try to pocket a ball, and try to make the first game last all 30 minutes, how in the world is that real pool? How are these 300 and 400 Fargo players ever going to improve when they are rewarded for not trying to win the game? How could that be fun for anyone?
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I can’t stand playing it. It was new to our area this year so I gave it a shot with some friends who put a team together. I knew some liked it and had seen some on YouTube. I came to really dislike it. Don’t like the format or rules. Had to keep playing because we finished second and qualified for the qualifier. But if you quit your team can’t go to the qualifier. So had to play another session. Granted, I didn’t have to play every week, but I wanted to play zero weeks. Didn’t win the qualifier so I got the opportunity to quit. In our area the number of teams seems to keep dwindling. I don’t know that it will last. Which is unfortunate for the league operator- I don’t want them to fail but I just don’t want to play.

Anyway, I don’t like playing it and I have heard the same thing from several other players. It’s players of different skill levels too. Kind of as U12armresl said as well, pretty much every unique feature of UPL I prefer doing the other way. So stripping it down to the basic question, I didn’t find playing it fun. So that led to the easy decision of just not playing it. For those who like it, well… have fun.
 
u12armresl said:
Oh, let's add this too.
Heart break for Gerson Martinez Boza In on the 8-ball to go up 6-5 with the break and loses on a technicality!!! In Ultimate Pool USA, if the cue ball is frozen to a ball, you must shoot away from it. Gerson shot the shot like anyone would in international 8-ball competition but it was a foul in the Ultimate Pool rules. He loses the rack, then scratches his following break and never gets back to the table. Congrats to Tyler Styer for making it to the Finals.
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He didn't lose on a technicality. He lost because he broke a rule that he should have known. Whether or not the rule is ridiculous is irrelevant.
 
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