Uh, they can play the top American Players. He has a Scot, Brit, Philipino, Canadian, and 2 Taiwanese.
Shane, Bergman, Dechaine, Archer, Morris and Woodward would make for good opponents, no?
I had to check into this. Since 2004, he is a 3 time champion, a 3 time runner-up, bringing his total to 9 top 4 finishes in the last 13 Derby's and two other finishes in the top 13.
This is almost insane in a short-rack race to 3 event with 400+ players every year.
Jayson Shaw is also alive getting the bye. John has also received an earlier bye, so if Alex can give John his first loss, Alex will get the bye to the finals and Jayson and John would duke it out.
Otherwise, Jayson will have to double dip Mr. Brumback in the finals!
TheBook,
The short story is that John has a ton of gamble, is a little obnoxious, should probably not do commentary and is now into promoting the game bankrolling top players.
Some people want to find a conspiracy where there is none. Must be in our DNA?
If we're trying to grow the sport, I think it should be a young gun 21 or under. We should help them try to realize their dream before it gets squashed by the "Real World".
Billy Thorpe or Landon Shuffet are names that pop in my mind.
Not really. They have a difference of 18 points between them which isn't much. One bad performace by bergman/great performance by Morra would close the gap pretty quickly.
I think people get all bent out of shape by this system. You should use it as a rough guideline, but its not an exact...
Alex Pagulayan. I think he pretty much proved that by beating Scott the last couple times they played.
Efren was the best for damn near 20 years but that reign finally came to an end a couple years ago.