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Yes indeed. Do you think double elimination would have been a winning format in terms of adding big name players to this particular tournament?

Oi, Grab and Robbie for starters. I'm still not sure what your point is though as they were already there or thereabouts. A single elimination tournament is surely "good value" for elite players who happen to be around?

Tbf, it's in a shopping mall yet it has attracted a number of international players from abroad and some of them have gone deep. I think it's amazing, and I hope it's here to stay. The only thing missing is Tiffany.

I see where you are coming from but I think push shots and wrong ball first are different enough situations to have different ways of judging them. AI or similar technology is used elsewhere in sport. The best example I can think of is in cricket with the Decision Review System (DRS). It's...

dr-dave are you the best player in the world ever in the history of the universe and all the other universes? Do you know on every shot, as soon as you have hit the cue ball, exactly where all the balls are going? Your analysis of the shot is great, and we can all learn a lot from it. Mostly...

Yes and no. The referee's job is to be the judge, not the judge and jury. So let's skip forward 100 years to the two best players ever playing 9 ball, a game that has been almost "solved" by today's standards. Instant replay technology is used on every single shot and happens so quickly that...

No, it is not the referee's job to know the behavior of the cueball. Never has been and never will be. You do need to see contact - because which ball was actually hit first is what the judgement should be based on according to the rules of the game. You can't make decisions on "ball behavior"...

Tangent lines is not the job of the referee. The referee's job is to decide whether there was a legal hit or not, and if there is no obvious foul then the referee's job is to not call a foul. If technology is available but it is still unclear then the referee should always call no foul.

It's based on the actual data. That's kind of the point of it.

Tournaments all the way. Action/money games really aren't that interesting because they are at the heart of it a private thing between two people's egos and bankrolls. I'd rather watch a video replay of me handling or not handling a situation in a tournament than playing in some money match...

FSR has played badly and will be the first to admit it. Sky has actually played ok under pressure - he's been unlucky and it's really hard to play your best when you are under the gun and getting unlucky.

I think Team Europe gunning for revenge would have been a better match. I get totally why MR allowed Fedor to be "American" to try to balance the Mosconi Cup, and then went from Europe to ROW to make "Europe" stronger - but essentially yes it needs to be about team identity and rivalry.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Please. Just go away.

Huh? He missed a ball. He's been the best player today for ROW.

I couldn't agree more. In his first MR appearance he wasn't great at all - a bit wooden, probably nerves and adjusting to a new environemt. But he has, as you say, risen to the top. Some of his observations border on genius.

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Why would you jump when kicking is easier? It's like giving up. Asia wins this.

Yep, it's often used as a catch all term like "pool" or "billiards" to refer to any game. The actual game Sinuca (or "Sinuca Brasileira) is a version of the game of snooker. The main differences are that is played with one red ball rather than 15, and that once you have potted a "free" ball...

Yes I couldn't agree more - hence the shootout (akin to penalties in soccer and sometimes in ice hockey, and next score in many end-to-end ball sports). I'm not saying it's my favorite way of deciding (as a purist I prefer alternate break win by two) but it is a way. The argument that it should...

Then propose alternate break, win by two.