1st Round Bracket Picks

[jsp]

Who cares about experience? Marlon has already shown he's got the juice. A 5th place finish at this year's BCA Open and a 3rd place finish at this year's WPC confirm that he's got the pedigree to go very deep in events having very tough fields.

SJM, I can see you're warming up quite a bit to Manalo.

If you want to see a tough field, take a look at last year's World 8 Ball Championships in Fujairah and see who Manalo had to beat to reach Reyes in the finals. (I couldn't find the original and official brackets, but this page will suffice.) Remember, this tournament was 8 BALL.

On a sidenote, this year's tournament is scheduled to start this week. Couple things to watch out for. Let's see if Reyes has fully recovered from his eye surgery and repeat his title. Let's see if Django can let loose on an 8ball break with his crummy elbow, and if he finally capture a world title. Let's see if Pagulayan can add this title to his extraordinary list of tournaments won. Let's see if the pinoys can prove to the world they are still champions of 8 ball (Haha, can you tell which country i'm rooting for? Too bad none of the American stars can make it.). It would also be a nice preview for the upcoming IPT tour.

 

[sjm]

Just as an FYI, in case you didn't know since you didn't mention it, Manalo won the most recent professional 14.1 tournament in New Jersey just a couple of months ago.

Fred

Must admit, Fred, I'd already forgotten. That certainly bodes well for Manalo. Thanks for the polite reminder. For anyone planning to attend, you could do worse than watching Group 4, with Manalo, Morris, Robles, Hohmann, Jones, and Thornfeldt. Some great players will fail first to make it out of the first round robin!

 

[deadstroke32]

here's my picks for the tournament places
1st. place-marlon manalo
2nd.place-mike sigel
3rd.place-allison fisher
4th place-thorston hoemann
5th. place-efren reyes
6th. place-ralf souquet
7th. place-tony robles
please keep this, for you will be amazed when the tournament is finished, how close i was.

Mike over hoemann never ..Fisher on hoemann god plz.and last but not lease,fisher over Reyas ..Dreaming ..
plz check your list picks ..WRONG >>>

 

[Renegade]

SJM, I can see you're warming up quite a bit to Manalo.

If you want to see a tough field, take a look at last year's World 8 Ball Championships in Fujairah and see who Manalo had to beat to reach Reyes in the finals. (I couldn't find the original and official brackets, but this page will suffice.) Remember, this tournament was 8 BALL.

On a sidenote, this year's tournament is scheduled to start this week. Couple things to watch out for. Let's see if Reyes has fully recovered from his eye surgery and repeat his title. Let's see if Django can let loose on an 8ball break with his crummy elbow, and if he finally capture a world title. Let's see if Pagulayan can add this title to his extraordinary list of tournaments won. Let's see if the pinoys can prove to the world they are still champions of 8 ball (Haha, can you tell which country i'm rooting for? Too bad none of the American stars can make it.). It would also be a nice preview for the upcoming IPT tour.

Nice article, jsp. Strong showing by the Philippines. Was just wondering, though -- would the results have been different had the USA sent players?

 

[jsp]

Nice article, jsp. Strong showing by the Philippines. Was just wondering, though -- would the results have been different had the USA sent players?

Good question. I honestly don't know who is strong in 8 ball among the Americans, since there's been a scarcity of 8ball tournaments here lately. I guess we can find out when the IPT tour starts. My gut feeling is that Corey Deuel will lead the way for the Americans. He's a very creative player, a trait that definitely helps in 8 ball. But like I mentioned in a previous thread, I don't think the other Americans will make a significant impact (break the top 10 consistently) in 8 ball. Just a gut feeling...hopefully I'll be proven wrong.

 

[jsp]

I don't think the other Americans will make a significant impact...

I forgot about Sigel. He'll definitely be breaking the top 10 at a consistent basis.

 

[RED NAXELA]

Quote from Renegade: "Would the results have been different had the USA sent players?"
They would have. Strickland would have placed fifth, instead of Chamat.

 

[sjm]

bump, bump, bump ............ on behalf of those from whom we haven't yet heard

 

[ironman]

What is it with all you Charlie Williams lovers
in Group 5. Am I not aware of his accomplishments
lately or what? I just don't see how you can pick
him in lieu of Gabe, who is having a good year this
year. Of course, I have seen Gabe play in person
since he was a teenager, all games, and I probably
have a better idea of his 8 ball playing skills than
others do.

Snapshot9, is she putting that sweater on or taking it off? I just gotta know?

 

[jsp]

bump bump bump...to let us know what other we predicted.

 

[Celtic]

Welp, I missed some picks.

Round 1: 2/3 (Davenport missed)
Round 2: 2/3 (Hopkins really missed)
Round 3: 3/3 (All 3 I picked made it)
Round 4: 2/3 (Jones missed it)
Round 5: 2/3 (Souquet missed it)

All in all I picked 11 of the total 15 players to advance.

How did others perform? Anyone get close to all 15?

 

[bandido]

I've been told there are at lease 10 more Philippinos who can beat Santos, but they can't get out of their country!

Check out the Philippines' line-up in the on-going SEA Games and you'll see the majority of the 10 that can. # of which could have shown up at the recent US open had it not been for the extremely tight US Visa regs.

Marlon started travelling to play pool, use to jst travel for snooker, in 2003. He was already considered in the top 20 in the Philippines before then.

 

[PoolBum]

Ok, I'll take a shot--here are my picks:

Group 1:
Corr
Parica
Archer

Group 2:
Fisher
Bustamante
Fiejen

Group 3:
Deuel
Strickland
Immonen

Group 4: (The toughest group IMO)
Manalo
Jones
Hohmann

Group 5:
Williams
Souquet
Owen

I think I got exactly 2 out of 3 right in each group.