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Here in Germany, the league setup is 100% on 9 footers, and they have a tiered league setup similar to soccer, where you join a "Liga" team at whatever level, and you and your teammates attempt to win the league session. If you do so, your entire team gets graduated to the next Liga level. And...

Well, for the record... Fargorate has been importing tournament results from cuescore for a specific tournament series run out of our club in Germany. I actually wrote a script that spit out German league results in a format that would ingest seamlessly into Fargorate, and it never really went...

He'strying to show you that there is no effective difference in measurement of overall pool ability on a 7 foot table, versus a 9 foot table. And for the record, Fargorate is a rating system that very much patterns itself off of something like the U.S. Chess Federation/FIDE ratings. These...

So playing the Main Event at the International Open is not necessary? Plenty of amateur events to fill a week, and get some heavy Fargorate data?

I really want to work on raising my FR back up to a level commensurate with my best game, but annoyingly, the TDs at DCC still don't report full match scores to Fargorate. I would appreciate any recommendations for a multidiscipline 9 foot event, as my wife and I are perfectly open to going...

I watched the last few games of that Skylar/Ruiz match, and I agree with everything you said. I saw that bank attempt, and I was very close to turning off the TV in disgust. I told my wife that shot basically epitomized everything about why we keep getting drilled year after year. If he could...

Well, that's the thing.. You "think' that European players are better because government funds player development. I mean.. "I guess", if you want to loosely define "government". But the truth of it is.. European leagues, look NOTHING like American leagues. In Germany, clubs field teams at...

My thoughts are that this question has been asked no less than 50 times... And always when we are getting our heads beat in. You wouldn't be asking the question if America was still dominant, as in the first days of the Mosconi Cup. That being said.. I "think" the Mosconi Cup "used" to be USA...

Sigh. Some of you people are stuck in decades-old thinking. The Mosconi Cup is one of the few financially successful televised pool-centric events in the past 20-30 years.. And people like you want to rewind the clock. Here's a clue.... That image of pool you have? Doesn't sell. You have this...

And Billy plays another poor safe, leaving natural position from the the 2 to the 3....

Okay.. so clarify that, then. What issue do you have with "how she looks"?? And which woman are you specifically referencing? I saw the redhead, and her dress pretty much goes up to her neck, and she has an interesting, B-52s type vibe. Little bit of legs showing, but nothing crazy. The other is...

I mean Jesus... It seems like Team America is basically helpless with the safety game, unless things are dead obvious. Billy doesn't come anywhere close to safe, leaving Alcaide a completely open table, with the cue ball nowhere close to another ball, and nice, comfortable bridging. He had to...

What's cringe is how comfortable you guys are, commenting on how she dresses. The thing is.. This is 2024, and women should be able to dress in a way that makes "them" feel comfortable, without having to constantly deal with sexist comments about it.

I forget who exactly on Team USA butchered the shot, (I "think" it was Sky in this match..) but if they couldn't lag behind the 6 off that 1 ball and leave Europe completely and utterly frozen behind the 6, I have absolutely no confidence in Team USA to execute even the simplest safes, let alone...

Keep in mind.. They are playing under bright lights, and slick, new cloth... Not sure the balls will react the same as on a home table..

Realistically, Billy and Tyler got away with murder in that match. They missed multiple safe opportunities, and it wasn't really close. America players need to take advantage of absolutely every chance, and that includes executing safes at a distance.

Agreed.

Ayuh. Because being emotionless automatons at the table has worked so well in *literally all the other televised events that have failed consistently to make a profit, since the days of Mosconi/Fats*......

Interesting thing about his statement.... It was actually rampant speculation in the American stock market that caused the stock market crash, which got Germany's loans called in overnight, which led to a massive depression in Germany... Which actually gave the Nazis the economic conditions they...

Well, gee. it seems like someone in American pool actually finally looked at how they do things in other countries (this is the basic format for almost EVERY weekend tournament in Germany, so far as I know, and likely in other areas of Europe..). Turns out.. People like coming to tournaments...