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Sky played good. I don't recall him missing a ball. He had a couple questionable decisions but he HAS to play perfect. I think he played pretty much how any of the Euro's except for Shaw would have played if the score was reversed.

What is his job? I don't even get the point of having a referee make such calls in 2024. Beer drinking, back slapping, bar leagues often will have a "ref" pull out a phone to record a close hit. Matchroom referees seem to be there more for show than to actually make knowledgeable foul calls. If...

Nobody was arguing that the laws of physics suspend themselves at inopportune times for certain players. This is just a semantics game BeiberLvr is playing here. While he's right that too many annually blame the MC outcome on rolls or the short races, he's wrong to surmise that "rolls" --...

You could make them shoot off handed or behind the back to make it more competitive too. Or make them have to play with a legend. Or how about blindfolded? Or or or I think if Hearn wasn't behind this, they would have added women a long time ago. I'm glad they haven't.

We are kind of in a no win situation here. Our Regional and Minor professional scene is very healthy. Guys can eek out an existence playing these events all over the U.S, or at least feed themselves, or they can work a 9 to 5 and still play competitive pool on the side. If more money gets...

Yeah. I figured she was talking about slapping a WNT tag on the International next year.

None of our players jumped off the screen as having horrible technique like we've all seen in the past. So there's that too.

I actually think this was our best performance in years. SVB is going to SVB at the Mosconi. Woodward played really well. He just had zero margin for error. Tyler was solid. Gorst may have finally figured it out at the end. So he should play better next year. I didn't watch Billy that closely so...

Then how did he not see that? Was he focused on a shirt foul? That stupid shot has burned me several times over the years.

There's a difference between totally blaming your fate on rolls and pretending they don't exist. The goal should just be recognizing that they are a part of the game and to accept the good ones with the bad ones. In short races rolls can determine the outcome. In the long run, they even out...

Marcel didn't even see it. Lol It's obvious he doesn't play pool.

Ahem... Those were just shots that Mickey didn't have total knowledge about where the balls were going to go.

"Jimmy did you see that? Man I would have won, but I didn't have the knowledge of what the balls will do in every single situation!" Now that hear that I loud -- I think I like the ring of that.

Here I thought you played pool. Of course bad rolls exist. Do you really think players are so good that they can control every movement of every ball on the table? The fact that there are good and bad rolls is part of what makes nine ball interesting.

The U.S. play has improved dramatically this year. Their tactical play has been much better. They haven't opted for as many hero shots. The problem is -- they were just so far behind to begin with and have only one road to victory -- Gorst, Woodward, and SVB have to play great! Woodward has. The...

I would love Marchroom to go back to behind the line on a scratch on the break. I know that would slow the game down so they probably never would. It sure would be more interesting.

Yeah that's what I was getting at. I used to focus on doing this and found it was the only semi-natural way to get the Buddy Hall like pause.

Come on. There are only a few unwritten rules around here and I may get punished for posting one of them but it needs to be known. Unwritten rule #23: NEVER APOLOGIZE To Garczar!!! ***Edit to add: Apologizing to Garczar is like the stupid hand wave after the lucky safe. Save the wave and...

Also -- the idea that we shouldn't comment on a woman's outfit when it's obvious that's exactly what she wants is quite humorous. Now back to pool.

Sorry -- best performer at MC. He plays psychologically free pool somehow.