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[arps]

alternating break tests a lot of skills:
1. it tests your BnR consistency. to ensure a huge chance of winning the match, a player needs to make sure that he wins his breaks and steal at least 1 rack from the opponent.
2. it tests your defensive play when the rack you break has no run-out possibility.
3. it tests your aggressive play when "stealing" your opponent's rack.
4. it also tests how well you lag.

In alternating break format, a player is challenged on how well he can perform and dominate a rack when given the chance to break. Like what they say, "luck is the product of opportunity and preparedness".

 

[Bbutler]

Obviously the best breakers prefer winner breaks
But is 9 ball just a breaking contest or all round game?
If it is breaking contest then winner break
If it is all round game, then alt break

On that basis , IMHO alt break is better format and more exciting . You will have more hill hill matches as evident in group stages .

Boxing is bad analogy - in boxing both can punch at same time while in pool only 1 can shoot . So better analogy is tennis. And in tennis alt break worked for ages. Maybe what needs to be changed is maybe the score format like instead of 1 set race to 11 , make it 2 sets race to 5 and if tied 1 set each, play a decider rack like in past editions of the popular international Challenge of Champions
:grin:

Nine ball is an all around game, but it's most important element is to be able to come with balls to the wall offence at any given moment. Good players know how to create and build momentum in a set of nine ball, and then how to keep it in their corner as long as possible. It's an art as important as how to spin the cue ball.

Equating the game to tennis is also wrong, the more appropriate comparison is to a set of heads up no limit hold em, where you can be playing great for hand after hand after hand, and then one mistake can cost you all your chips. That's the way it should be at pool too, and that's the way it's been in tournaments and pool rooms as long as anyone can remember. The whole alternate break thing to me is an exhibition format that has no place in a major event, just like limit poker works for low stakes and the occasional tournament, but not for the big daddy, the Main Event. forget that.

 

[f210]

:thumbup: Johann Chua has just eliminated the great Chang Jung Lin with a score of 9-6.

 

[BeiberLvr]

Nine ball is an all around game, but it's most important element is to be able to come with balls to the wall offence at any given moment. Good players know how to create and build momentum in a set of nine ball, and then how to keep it in their corner as long as possible. It's an art as important as how to spin the cue ball.

Equating the game to tennis is also wrong, the more appropriate comparison is to a set of heads up no limit hold em, where you can be playing great for hand after hand after hand, and then one mistake can cost you all your chips. That's the way it should be at pool too, and that's the way it's been in tournaments and pool rooms as long as anyone can remember. The whole alternate break thing to me is an exhibition format that has no place in a major event, just like limit poker works for low stakes and the occasional tournament, but not for the big daddy, the Main Event. forget that.

Wrong.

If the Main Event were Limit Hold'em, then the best players would win way more often.

 

[skip100]

So who has advanced so far this morning?

 

[java712]

5 pinoys in, another 3 in this morning and now lee vann is almost there.. hope its their time this year

 

[f210]

5 pinoys in, another 3 in this morning and now lee vann is almost there.. hope its their time this year

Lee Van is now the 9th pinoy in the final 64. Felicilda will be playing in the next session to try to make it too. Only Israel Rota eliminated so far out of the 11 Filipinos.

Waleed Majid, Chang Jung Lin and Van den Berg are all out.

 

[f210]

FINAL 64 match-ups (some of them) have already been upated in this link:

http://competition.kozoom.com/en/home/3776/list/352/

FINAL 64 BRACKET PART 1:

http://competition.kozoom.com/en/bigscreen/qatar/final/1/

FINAL 64 BRACKET PART 2:

http://competition.kozoom.com/en/bigscreen/qatar/final/2/

 

[Masayoshi]

Biado vs Ko Pin Yi in the 2nd round should be interesting.

 

[f210]

I was wondering how they figure out the pairings in the final 64 and I just learned that once you win your match, they just "blind draw a place in the final schedule". So it is possible all the big guys can be in one bracket.

 

[f210]

Biado vs Ko Pin Yi in the 2nd round should be interesting.

Yukio vs Johann Chua would be the one to watch in the first round. Johann just eliminated Chang Jung Lin earlier.

 

[Masayoshi]

I was wondering how they figure out the pairings in the final 64 and I just learned that once you win your match, they just "blind draw a place in the final schedule". So it is possible all the big guys can be in one bracket.

Winners side players get paired with a losers side player so it is slightly more likely to be balanced than a random draw (of course upsets in the double elimination rounds can change this).

 

[f210]

Peach has just been gobbled up by Mischel Turkey and is now out of the tournament.

 

[BeiberLvr]

alternating break tests a lot of skills:
1. it tests your BnR consistency. to ensure a huge chance of winning the match, a player needs to make sure that he wins his breaks and steal at least 1 rack from the opponent.
2. it tests your defensive play when the rack you break has no run-out possibility.
3. it tests your aggressive play when "stealing" your opponent's rack.
4. it also tests how well you lag.

In alternating break format, a player is challenged on how well he can perform and dominate a rack when given the chance to break. Like what they say, "luck is the product of opportunity and preparedness".

Most of those skills can also be tested in a winner breaks format

 

[spartan]

Another bad day for Euro
Aside from Peach , others eliminated

Ortmann
NVB
Babica

Johan Chua is Definitely one of dark horse . Played excellent match taking out a Chang Jung Lin
Yang also made it thru to last 64 but looked jittery and bit out of touch
Kevin Cheng holds record for most matches played - 18 matches

The 1 loss side is filled with monsters and world champions and I have feeling eventual champion will come from 1 loss side

 

[skip100]

I can't get over the fact that it's more than 100 degrees outside yet all of the players are wearing long sleeved shirts or jackets because it's so cold inside.


Hohmann is giving away his match... now down 7-4 to Francisco.

Boyes and Chao are playing so slowly it's hardly worth watching.

 

[Colin Colenso]

Some pretty awful pool tonight. Early round nerves effect even experienced pros at times. Hohmann, Boyes, Chao, NVB and Albin very ordinary from what I've been seeing.

 

[BRussell]

Klatt just ran over Makkonen 9-2. Morra and Klatt both in the final 64.

 

[f210]

Another bad day for Euro
Aside from Peach , others eliminated

Ortmann
NVB
Babica

Johan Chua is Definitely one of dark horse . Played excellent match taking out a Chang Jung Lin
Yang also made it thru to last 64 but looked jittery and bit out of touch
Kevin Cheng holds record for most matches played - 18 matches

The 1 loss side is filled with monsters and world champions and I have feeling eventual champion will come from 1 loss side

You can now add Thorsten Hohmann to that list. He has just been eliminated by Francisco from ESP. 9-4.

 

[Bbutler]

Wrong.

If the Main Event were Limit Hold'em, then the best players would win way more often.

But nobody would enjoy watching it.