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I saw a post the other day where someone cut open a Air Drive II and it was wood on the inside covered in carbon. I’ll try to find it and post the pictures. I know Deluna doesn’t use it anymore. He is using some custom that has a purple butt and a carbon shaft. Josh Roberts and Oi use ones that...

Yeah. Op has it backwards. What was said on the stream is that 6 of the 8 first round matches of stage two went to a shootout.

Mario and Gomez in the finals. Mario made the the 10 on the break the first two racks. Third game has a 2-10 combo first shot after break. 3-0 lead after 4 strokes. Next game dry break. Safety followed by a 2-10 combo by Roberto. Not a lot of pool being played yet. 🙄

I’m talking more about these events being held at CSI league events that have a lot of causal league players in attendance that might not necessarily enjoy sitting down to watch longer races but quick races to 4 and shootouts will hold their attention better and the short race formats are what...

It’s very obvious who this format is aimed at as I mentioned in a earlier post in this thread but thanks for the reminder. I think it’s great CSI and Predator are putting on these events and I’ve watched all of them. I don’t hate the idea of best of sets using short races in these events, I’m...

Poteet defeats Kiamco and Seaman beat Oi to move into the final 8. I think we all mostly agree the shootout is not we want to see to determine matches. I personally would rather see best of 3 sets if doing the races to 4. It’s not like time is a factor in these tournaments. They stretch them...

Well we have 3 Americans in the final 16. Poteet, Sossei, and Seaman. Few names that didn’t make final stage include Yapp, Fortunski, Zielinski, Szolnoki, Grabe and Juszczyszyn.

I don’t mind the format so much as it’s a change of pace and it sets the event apart from others but the shootout is what I really don’t like. Two races to 4 has some excitement value for the casual fans with short attention spans these events seemed to be aimed towards but the shootout is a...

Yeah Shaw is always a good bet on the ten foot but he hasn’t been showing his normal form lately. Might be the event he needs to get him on track. Yapp, Gomez, Gorst and SVB seem to be most consistent the last couple of events so it would be hard for me to not pick one of those 4.

A buddy had some of the old original moori tips. Said they were over ten years old. Had one installed and after about ten shots it split clean off but the bottom two layers. Just the glue failed after getting old I guess. Thats probably the only issue with layered tips that are older and I’m not...

I know he’s pretty open about having chronic issues with his back. Read somewhere that was the reason in postponing this match. He’s been playing a lot and those multi event tournaments like in SC can be brutal on the players. I saw a few players dropped out and didn’t go to Racks on the Rocks...

I could be wrong here or failing to understand the original post, but Zan Hybrid doesn’t have a harder center and softer edges. Ive used them for awhile and I’m pretty sure it’s just the bottom couple of layers are a harder leather than the rest of the tip. I guess it makes the hit feel firmer...

Yes. Every other event was big table.

Yeah the nine ball event was on the bar table. Nine on the spot alternate breaks.

Mika had a ton of opportunities and played bad. Coreys break didn’t have that much of an impact on the match imo. I like the Matchroom route now, use a forceful break, no three point rule. Yeah you can argue that it can be inconsistent because it’s the refs discretion on what’s a forceful break...

Predator has the air rush listed as 14mm too.

T A few guys from my area travel to the tournaments at Big Tyme. This past weekend I think first paid out 43k with the auction. That’s insane.

I like my BK Rush and I like trying the new stuff as much as anybody but $600 for a jump cue is over the line for me. I’m sure they are great but I can’t imagine an air rush being $300 better than my Hanshew or $200 better than the Propel. To me there’s realistically only so much one can do with...

Orcullo double dips Sky 4-1 both sets to win the one pocket. Szolnoki won the nine ball. He got the hot seat beating SVB and played Filler in the finals after Filler came all the through the one loss side after losing his very first match.

I’ve seen enough good 10b, banks and 1p matches to feel like I got my money’s worth but it’s definitely been really sloppy. I’m sure they realize now they tried to do way too much. Seems like it should have been obvious a race to 4 one pocket tournament in the middle of the other events was...