DCC BigFoot 10 Ball Challenge (Jan 24th-27th, 2020)

spartan

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Starts next Friday. Crazy elite field ! Looking forward.

The 16 Players
Josh Filler
Roberto Gomez
Jayson Shaw
Chris Melling
Billy Thorpe
Konrad Juszczyszyn
Skyler Woodward
Francisco Bustamante
Shane Vanboening
Dennis Orcollo
John Morra
Alex Pagulayan
Corey Deuel
Mike Immonen
Lee Vann Corteza
James Aranas


Same players as last year except Thorpe, Sky, Aranas playing this year instead of Chang JL, Fedor, Kaci


The entry fee is $1,000 with $16,000 added!
This is an invitational event for only sixteen of the very best players.
All matches are Ten Ball, played on the Bigfoot 10' table.
It's Single Elimination and all the matches are a Race to Eleven.
The payouts will be 1st - $16,000, 2nd - $8,000, and 3rd-4th $4,000 each!
It takes two wins to get in the money

:D
 

AtLarge

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With 15 matches each year in this event, there are 30 Accu-Stats Total Performance Averages (TPAs). Here are the number of TPAs in the 900s for each of the last 6 years:

2014 -- 1 [SVB]

2015 -- 3 [Orcollo and SVB(2)]

2016 -- 4 [ Bustamante, SVB, Shaw (2)]

2017 -- 5 [Hohmann, Kazakis, Shaw (3)]

2018 -- 4 [ Gomez, Gorst, Immonen (2)]

2019 -- 9 [Gorst, Orcollo, Shaw, SVB, Filler (2), Chang (3)]
 

kkdanamatt

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Starts next Friday. Crazy elite field ! Looking forward.

The 16 Players
Josh Filler
Roberto Gomez
Jayson Shaw
Chris Melling
Billy Thorpe
Konrad Juszczyszyn
Skyler Woodward
Francisco Bustamante
Shane Vanboening
Dennis Orcollo
John Morra
Alex Pagulayan
Corey Deuel
Mike Immonen
Lee Vann Corteza
James Aranas


Same players as last year except Thorpe, Sky, Aranas playing this year instead of Chang JL, Fedor, Kaci


The entry fee is $1,000 with $16,000 added!
This is an invitational event for only sixteen of the very best players.
All matches are Ten Ball, played on the Bigfoot 10' table.
It's Single Elimination and all the matches are a Race to Eleven.
The payouts will be 1st - $16,000, 2nd - $8,000, and 3rd-4th $4,000 each!
It takes two wins to get in the money

:D

Gorst is under age, so he's out.
Kaci turns 21 on January 29, so he can't enter the Big Foot.
So, what's the sitution with JL Chang?
Is he not coming to Derby?
 

sjm

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Too bad Chang will not play, he would probably be the favorite.

Agreed, and he's a great player to watch, too. Must not be coming to Derby. His team barked at every top player (no exceptions) there last year but nobody would play him until Josh Filler stepped up to the plate on the eighth day of the Derby. Filler beat him, 17-14 at ten ball, avenging his loss in the Bigfoot final.
 
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sjm

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Kaci turns 21 on January 29, so he can't enter the Big Foot.

Contrastingly, Kristina Tkach, the young Russian gal who was in almost continual action during last year's Derby, will turn 21 this coming Sunday.
 

MD1108

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The Bigfoot Challenge is great and I look forward to it again this year.

Any word on JL Chang? Any news about other Taiwanese or Chinese players attending the Derby? I certainly hope they are participating.
Definitely some of the most talented players in the World.
 

gxman

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I wish they could wrap this event up in 2 days, rather than dragging it out over 4 days.
 

sjm

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I wish they could wrap this event up in 2 days, rather than dragging it out over 4 days.

They could, if they either cut the field size to eight or used more tables, but how many ten footers are they supposed to set up and where, and how can it be done without interfering with the other events? Lest we forget, the lack of extra space spelt the end of the Derby City 14.1 Challenge.

The fact is that the Bigfoot has become one of the featured events at Derby City because it always features a killer field, so Greg Sullivan has found a way to stream it by putting it in the Accu-stats arena. The 10-ball event wasn't streamed in its early years and much of it was played very late at night so that it wouldn't interfere with the three core events, so for those who buy the stream, this has been a very good development.

The 9-ball is still the true centerpiece and climax of the Derby. The money riding on it is huge, as 9-ball usually decides the Master of the Table. When Skyler met Orcullo in a late round in the 9-ball last year, both were still in the mix for the 20,000 Master of the Table bonus. Skyler not only beat Orcullo to clinch it, but went on to win the 9-ball a few hours later for 16,000, earning 36,000 in a matter of a few hours, finishing off a week in which he cleared about $50,000.

Taking the 9-ball off the stream table would be an atrocity and would meet with the wrath of the fans. It is a shame for bank pool fans that the Bigfoot takes some bank pool matches out of the Accu-stats arena, but Greg Sullivan has made all the right choices in delivering the best possible product to both attending fans and purchasers of the stream.
 

sjm

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The 9 Ball has never been the centerpiece of the Derby.

Have it as you like, but it's always the climax. The Derby is, and always will be, about Master of the Table, and you can cut the tension with a knife once the nine ball is underway and the players can start to taste the $20,000 bonus.

The second Saturday at the Derby, on which only nine ball is played, offers the second biggest pay day in American pool, behind only the US Open 9-ball, and is one of the most exciting days of the entire pool year.
 
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