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Agreed. North America v Europe would be great.

I'm getting team shirts for my league team heading to Vegas. I currently see three options: 1) The "cheap" amazon shirts that allow personal name/team name on prefab loud designs. They are actually decent quality but many teams out there have the same shirt, and we don't like loud regardless...

Definitely not a surprise given who his best buddy is. But all things considered, he's not all that much different from any of the other options. Perusing the top-100 USA Fargo list: I like Oscar, but can anyone say Oscar would perform better? Bergman just likes to crush shortstops locally...

Revisiting this, after thinking about it, the entire reason dual-stage tournaments exist is to provide a balance between players getting "enough play/opportunity" for their money, and for the late stages to be quick, dramatic, and decisive. I think the structure of this tournament is just...

Typical path to citizenship is greencard, then after 5yrs of that, you can apply for citizenship. Getting a greencard can be multiple years. Are you sure he's halfway to citizenship, and not halfway to greencard? Without more concrete information, I would bet the latter, and that he's still...

I think him suddenly being an American is a Matchroom designation. Other promoters probably have their own criteria.

Can you explain why you think a guy with very limited big-tournament experience has more experience in the "late-tournament limelight" than two, albeit younger, touring pros?

Having a day job is a huge disadvantage to developing into a great player, though. It's hard to fault him so far. Even if he only plays when he feels up to it and when has (essentially) home-field advantage, his results have been very impressive so far no matter how you slice it. A great night...

Also, add me to the list of folks who think more tournaments should be single elimination.

I'm definitely on team Arseni out of these four.

Agreed. It's a silly rule and I'm quite shocked it's still in place.

He also just beat FSR at the Hanoi open.

85/128 = 66.4% listed in the opening matches were Filipino. 10/16 = 62.5% in the last 16 are. Clearly, they are underperforming. :D

Except that WPT/Predator kept the purple 4 (not to mention every place I play at, including my own home table). It really is frustrating at times to be watching a match and having to consciously figure out what the next ball is or otherwise misread the table a bunch. It detracts from the viewing...

Great info, as always. One thing I've always thought is that for the point system for the team matches is that players should get 0.2 for each rack they won, rather than just for participating. That would align more closely with the value for points received in singles/doubles, in which the...

As for team selection, this is what I like: 3 spots automatic qualification, with clear, published guidelines. If you make enough points/money and play enough tournaments (50%+?) you are in, even if you happen to miss a recent one. 2 fan vote. Yes, get fans involved. Make it like all-star...

Can't do any worse.

There's food stands and merch stands, too. More people more ancillary spending.

Adding up Fargo ratings, ROW total is 4157. WPA's is 4190. In case anyone is curious. ASIA's is 4130, although replace AJ with either KPC or KPY and that would be 4180.

Yeah they've been advertising half-price tickets the last few days to try to get more people. Nothing like talking with folks who walked up and paid half what I paid a month ago. Looking it up, the median monthly salary for a Filipino worker is P14,588 (according to Google's AI, at least). At...