Now closer to start, both don't sound so confident :LOL: Gorst says it is flip of coin, doesn't think Shane breaks better than him. Says Shane wanted magic rack, 4.25 inches pockets
The 7th non-800/ sub 800/800- player last year was Fortunski. He joined 800 club this year after making final in UK Open
So by and large,
800+ >20% B&R
800- <20% B&R
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Warm up event to US Open.
Strong field 16x800+/Top 50 Fargo with bunch of Top 10
Albin Ouschan
Alex Kazakis
Aloysius Yapp
Carlo Biado
David Alcaide
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
Jeffrey Roda
Joshua Filler
Lee Van Corteza
Max Lechner
Moritz Neuhausen
Naoyuki Oi
Pijus Labutis
Roland Garcia
Wiktor...
Possible explanation for drop to <20% B&R this year is cos last year European Open (EO) had 25 x800 out of 32 players i.e. 78% top players in the 16 matches streamed while this year EO only had 20 out of 32 (63% top players)
Same thing in carom with governing federation UMB on warpath with promoter PBA which like Matchroom offered better prize money
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/other-sports/vietnamese-billiards-players-banned-from-international-competitions-due-to-conflict-of-organizations-4777368.html
This...
All upsets on final day in semis and final. A sub Fargo 800 Mickey Krause won this major over other 3 x800 semifinalists (Chua,SVB, Sky). This is the 2nd time that a sub Fargo 800 outside Top 50 has won a major after Robbie Capito win at UK Open this year. But this was no “disaster” like recent...
Last 16
Oh no ! Alnar sends Filler home upsetting him for 2nd time in this event. Horrendous performance by Filler
Mickey Krause takes mickey out of Albin blowing him out of the ocean 10-2
Ko Ping Chung shoots liver out of Oliver Szolnoki 10-4
Condensed version
Drama is apparently Kyle bet on himself to win this exhibition match against Bernie.
Bernie "testified" that Kyle asked him to lose the match when Bernie was leading towards end.
(Strangely after that Bernie made some bad shots and lost the match.)
Appears that Bernie's...
Draw for Last 64 Knock out
Balanced draw- Top half 12x800 / Bottom half 11x800
Started with 33x800, 2 no show (Kyle Amoroto, Marvin Asis)
These 8 did not make last 64
Eklent Kaci
Mario He
Michael Feliciano
Anton Raga
Mieszko Fortunski
Duong Quoc Hoang
Naoyuki Oi
James Aranas
TOP HALF...
Super strong field 33x800s players. 2nd strongest this year after WPC
Majors typically have around 20 to 29 x800s players
EklentKaci
Albania
MarioHe
Austria
MaxLechner
Austria
AlbinOuschan
Austria
SanjinPehlivanovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
ChangYu Lung
Chinese Taipei
KoPin Yi...
Field of 256 players
EklentKaci Albania
KledioKaci Albania
BesarSpahiu Albania
NikolaosMalai Albania
ErnestoGjoni Albania
EniTopulli Albania
DanielGuttenberger Austria
MarioHe Austria
MaxLechner Austria
AlbinOuschan Austria
CliffCastelein Belgium...
Free Live Streams on about 10 tables. ALL matches are streamed.
Pretty impressive for small ranking event like this. If only Matchroom would also stream all matches on all tables on their major events (instead of just 2 to 3 tables) :LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/@billiardtube2022/streams...