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Come now, Jay, life is never normal. You've been around long enough to know that! We had a brief "holiday from history" after the USSR imploded, to use the words of a famous political pundit. But the world is always chaotic. I think of my father when I hear people complain about the state of...

If your approach works for you, great. Different folks ... For my part, I benefited from learning the principles of banking and learning a numbering system. It was pretty easy. Now I am at the point where I instinctively know by feel how the numbers add up. The real question is what approach...

We don’t call every WNT event a major. Neither does Matchroom. Matchroom has lots of events. Some it calls majors, or Gold events. Others are deemed ranking or Silver or Bronze events. The Pattaya Open fit into that category. So did the Caraboa in February, or the upcoming Diamond Expo event in...

Banking is art and science. It doesn’t just have to be systems or feel. It’s both. The ‘system’ I learned from Tor Lowry also taught me the principles or science of banking. DrDave is also very helpful in the regard. Going this route speeds up the learning process. Learning just by feel takes...

This is what I do. I set up a wide variety of bank shots, sticker them, then shoot at different speeds, different spots on the cue ball, and with different spins. Thats how you figure out and remember the various effects.

I figure that is why Yapp is not attending. First big major (WPC or event with 256-player field) that I think he has missed since 2022.

It's not easy. I can visualize lots of banks now, even a lot of kicks, because I practice them. But learning a diamond system first taught me how to regularly succeed in making banks and kicks. It was like giving me a alphabet to make words. Or a solid foundation to build a banking and kicking...

Most Appearances in a Matchroom/WNT Major Quarterfinals 9 - Shane Van Boening - Joshua Filler 8 - Fedor Gorst - Francisco Sanchez Ruiz 6 - Ko Ping Chung - Ko Pin Yi - Jayson Shaw - Max Lechner 5 - David Alcaide - Eklent Kaci 4- Johann Chua - Aloysius Yapp - Albin Ouschan

Continuing the list: Most Appearances in a Matchroom/WNT Major Semifinals 7 - Shane Van Boening 5 - Joshua Filler 4 - Fedor Gorst - Aloysius Yapp - Johann Chua TIED AT 3 David Alcaide - Francisco Sanchez Ruiz - Skyler Woodward - Pijus Labutis - Ko Pin Yi - Ko Ping Chung - Carlo Biado - Albin...

I created a spreadsheet earlier this year of the results of all WNT major events for future reference. I only include winner, runnerups, semifinalsts and quarterfinalists for each tournament. No match scores, either. Wanted something quick and simple to update. The WNT officially began in...

I played around with this last weekend. I had some success, but not enough to persuade me to use it. I was planning to experiment a bit more since I have never seen this system until watching the video. He is on a 7-foot Diamond. A 9-foot GC plays differently when I tested this system on it.

Yes and no. I would assume some players booked their flight awhile ago, when trips were cheaper. Yapp posted about the European Open three weeks ago and it appeared he would attend. Granted, WNT didn't officially announce the event until Jan. 29, which was a bit late. I don't know if players...

There are basically only two kinds of systems. Visual ones and numbering/diamond ones. These are mainly systems for dead banks or mild cut angles at medium speed. I've mainly used two visual systems that require parallel shifting. No numbers involved. My preferred system - as a base...

If I am not mistaken, Teutcher’s Fargo just recently surpassed 800. He’s had some high finishes the past two years, mostly in WPA events. Younger players who’ve improved quite a bit in the past year or two include Jonas Souto, Yannick Pongers, Arseni Sevastyanov, Emil Gangflot and Georgi...

The main TV table at WNT majors always has a shot clock, but it's only streamed on WNT.TV. So at least one table in play will have it. WNT plans to stream five tables at once. In the past, the other three tables usually have not had shot clocks. They did at the last WPC, however. Typically...

I have watched pretty much every decent video on banking and kicking on Youtube. Dozens of them or more. Oldtimers like Bugs, stalwarts like DrDave and newbies you never heard of. The best tutorials on banking, to me, are from Tor Lowry. His videos on Zero-X Banking and Kicking and Diamond...

I see this a lot. Easton is overhyped. Yet there is virtually no pool media to speak of in the U.S. aside from Billiards Digest. Meaning Mike Panozzo and his very small staff. Easton might have gotten on the cover of Billiards Digest, but Panozzo has to put someone on it 12 times a year and...

By comparison, the pool of players with a chance to get to the final 16 in the 2025 European Open was 65 or so.

PAST WINNERS OF WNT MAJORS (participating in the 2026 European Open) Joshua Filler Fedor Gorst Eklent Kaci Francisco Sanchez Ruiz Pijus Labutis David Alcaide Robbie Capito Alban Ouschan RUNNERUPS AT WNT MAJORS Moritz Neuhausen Jonas Souto Kledio Kaci Naoyuki Oi Marc Bjisterbosch Arseni...

Realistically, only about 20-25 players have a chance to win the European Open. Of these 20-25 players, eight have won a WNT major. Eight have been runnerups. And five others have been quarterfinalists. It’s a good chance for some players to finally break through with the field so thin...