2018 78th World 14.1 - News

Mr. Korean Dragon. Can you please show all of us the list of currently registered players- pro and non pro for this World 14.1 event?? Kamsemnida!

2018 78th World 14.1

I believe these are the currently announced players (as of August 11):
It would be helpful to have a current player list on the web site.
Johnny Archer
Michael Badsteubner
Rhys Chen
Holden Chin
Brian Davis
James Heller
Earl Herring
Thorsten Hohmann
Mika Immonen
Ben Judge
Warren Kiamco
Bob Madenjian
Petri Makkonen
Tony Robles
John Schmidt
Joe Wilson Torres
Olli Turkulainen
Shane Van Boening

If so, sad comment on 14.1, there was a time when there would be 25 guys in this tournament that would be even money or better against the best of this field in straight pool. Include Mizerak,Siegal, Rempe, Varner, Martin, Moore, Hopkins, Colavita, Lane, Ortmann, Liscotti, Fusco, Tona, Balsis, Crane, Murphy, Zuglan, Lassiter, Ervolino, Margo,etc. just to name a few.

78th World 14.1 Championship

As every year of the current era, since 2006 in East Rutherford, I will be at the event. Other AZ members please say hello!

2018 78th World 14.1 Field

Player First Player Last 2018 Group Years Played
Rhys Chen 1 3
Mark Finkelstein 1 3
Thorsten Hohmann 1 13
Ryan McCreesh 1 1
Elvis Rodriguez 1 1
Olli Turkulainen 1 2

Holden Chin 2 7
John Durr 2 1
James Heller 2 8
Mika Immonen 2 13
Bob Madenjian 2 8
Tony Robles 2 12

Tom Gleich 3 8
Michael Badsteubner 3 1
Abel Barriento 3 1
Joey Korsiak 3 1
Petri Makkonen 3 1
John Schmidt 3 11

Pascal Dufresne 4 3
Brian Davis 4 1
Earl Herring 4 6
Ben Judge 4 1
Joe Wilson Torres 4 1
Shane Van Boening 4 6

Elliot Eisenberg 5 3
Sean C. Morgan 5 6
Jonathan Smith 5 8
Jerry Tarantola 5 4
Johnny Archer 5 11
Warren Kiamco 5 6

With 30 players, are they going to stick with 7 days?

When will the round-robin matches end?

AtLarge said:

With 30 players, are they going to stick with 7 days?

When will the round-robin matches end?

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More than likely. Charlie likes to suck as much revenue as possible from the spectators.

sparkle84 said:

More than likely. Charlie likes to suck as much revenue as possible from the spectators.

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Save your money and just show up Fri or Sat. it is no big secret from this field who the last 6 players standing will be.

AtLarge said:

With 30 players, are they going to stick with 7 days?

When will the round-robin matches end?

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Seems kind of silly they'll be wasting the first 2+ days of round robin group matches just to whilttle the total field down from 30 players to 24 players. Everyone advances to the 2nd phase with the exception of the last place finisher in each of the 6 groupings.

ChrisinNC said:

Seems kind of silly they'll be wasting the first 2+ days of round robin group matches just to whilttle the total field down from 30 players to 24 players. Everyone advances to the 2nd phase with the exception of the last place finisher in each of the 6 groupings.

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It was 5 groups of 6.

I'm sure DP thinks they had good reasons for not altering the 7-day format (the "promise" that entrants would get to play at least 4 or 5 matches; schedules already made by players, administrators, guests, and spectators; the "need" to allow for the HOF dinner; etc). But, to me, taking 7 days for this is excessive. Just think how much in time and expenses could have been saved by doing it more efficiently.

And if we had a way of holding a true, well funded professional world 14.1 championship, many of the players in this year's event (as in the past events) would not even be eligible because of skill level. But that's not the way the pool world is today, so maybe we should just be happy that we have this event, and a couple other events, showcasing at least some of the best 14.1 players.

AtLarge said:

It was 5 groups of 6.

I'm sure DP thinks they had good reasons for not altering the 7-day format (the "promise" that entrants would get to play at least 4 or 5 matches; schedules already made by players, administrators, guests, and spectators; the "need" to allow for the HOF dinner; etc). But, to me, taking 7 days for this is excessive. Just think how much in time and expenses could have been saved by doing it more efficiently.

And if we had a way of holding a true, well funded professional world 14.1 championship, many of the players in this year's event (as in the past events) would not even be eligible because of skill level. But that's not the way the pool world is today, so maybe we should just be happy that we have this event, and a couple other events, showcasing at least some of the best 14.1 players.

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Regrettably, I have seen this stunt for years, pulled off by various promoters.

They setup an event knowing very well that they will never get a full field and then create a hostage situation, keeping all the players prisoners for a ridiculous amount of time.

Lou Figueroa