2014 World 9-Ball Championship

According to Shane

spartan said:
LOL
Get your facts right
These are lists of World Champions. http://www.wpa-pool.com/web/world_champions
Huidji See won W10b in 2011
Shane won UPA International 10b championship which is not WPA World Championship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-ball#UPA_International_Ten-ball_Championships
If Shane had won World Championship, media and his fans would be referring to him as wold champion right?
There is high chance that Shane will win a World Championship but as of now he has no World Championship. It is what it is.

:D
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According to Shane, he has not won a World Championship. With that, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
 
I would rep sjm and hello baby, but I gotta spread it around first.

Long races are fun, but they're a spectacle. Tournaments are the sport.
 
David answered in the the chat today

BRussell said:
Does anyone understand the colors in the brackets? They've got brown, blue, and yellow, but they don't seem to indicate country or anything else I can figure out.
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The colors mean nothing, according to David in the chat today
 
HelloBaby- said:
Man all Shane B&R were cosmo layout, can't say he played good, for me he was far below his A game. Chang on the other hand played well, better than Shane imo but had too many bad rolls especially on the break, he fought hard with some amazing shot. ...
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I agree that Chang played well. Here's a little fuller set of numbers.

SVB -- Broke "wet" every time; pocketed 106 balls; 5 B&R's on 10 breaks (50%); several nice safeties; 5 missed shots in the 17 games where he went to the table; and 2 fouls on missed kicks.

Chang -- Broke "wet" every time; pocketed 74 balls; 3 B&R's on 10 breaks (30%); several nice safeties but one poor one; 3 missed shots in the 15 games where he went to the table; and 2 fouls on kicks.

The Accu-Stats TPA's might be pretty close.
 
AtLarge said:
I agree that Chang played well. Here's a little fuller set of numbers.



SVB -- Broke "wet" every time; pocketed 106 balls; 5 B&R's on 10 breaks (50%); several nice safeties; 5 missed shots in the 17 games where he went to the table; and 2 fouls on missed kicks.



Chang -- Broke "wet" every time; pocketed 74 balls; 3 B&R's on 10 breaks (30%); several nice safeties but one poor one; 3 missed shots in the 15 games where he went to the table; and 2 fouls on kicks.



The Accu-Stats TPA's might be pretty close.
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Then I suppose Accu stats should be more specific on the scoring system : more points on difficult shots : long shot, tough bank, jump shot,etc and minus points on missing easy shot or screw up a easy positional shot,etc... That would be more accurate.

And for me Shane only shinning moments of the matchs were few safeties that he played beautifully
 
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By the reasoning I'm seeing here, we should crown the best street basketball players instead of the ones who carry their teams through the NBA finals, or any other iteration you can think of in another sport. Just out of curiosity, how many strictly gambling players are recognized in the hall of fame for their achievements on the table? How many are we talking about on here? Shane has said it himself, he's a rhythm player. Alternate break is his kryptonite. He's won several alternate break tournaments already, but I'm pretty sure that part of being at that level is the ability to come out of the seat cold and perform to your ability.
 
leto1776 said:
I would rep sjm and hello baby, but I gotta spread it around first.

Long races are fun, but they're a spectacle. Tournaments are the sport.
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yes, they are much easier for the average pool fan to sweat, but it doesn't decide who the better player is.
 
corvette1340 said:
yes, they are much easier for the average pool fan to sweat, but it doesn't decide who the better player is.
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Neither do the super long races,in spite of what you and many on here like to spout. If anything, they just show who has better endurance.
 
corvette1340 said:
all of these idiots know that, they just like to pretend they know pool. Saying Shane isn't a world champion is just silly when NONE of the guys in this tourney will play Shane a long race for the cash. Darren himself said that nobody in the world could beat Shane in a long race of 10-ball and I'd contend that nobody could handle him in 9-ball either for the cheese, but we will probably never find out because NONE OF THEM WILL PLAY HIM.

It astonishes me how none of these clowns understand variance and why these short race, alternate break formats will never decide who the better player is for the most part. There is so much luck involved and any one of these caliber players could win. If you make it winner break and a race to 21 then you immediately pair it down to about a quarter of them that have a real chance and if you make it race to 50 then you take it down to only a handful.
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Your right, EXCEPT Shane won't be a WORLD CHAMPION until he wins a
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
You can call him anything you like unfortunately it means nothing until he wins
a WORLD TITLE. :shrug:

Hopefully this Tournament !!!
Have a great day!
 
lukemindish said:
I really hope Shane snaps this off and shuts up all you nits.
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it will be something else even if he does. All I know is that none of these former world champions can beat Shane for the cash, Period.

Shane has also won more money around the world than anyone for 4 STRAIGHT YEARS going on 5!! Just like in the Color of Money, he who has the most is the best, just like in all walks of life. Put that in your foreign pipes and smoke it.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooo" ~ Ric Flair
 
corvette1340 said:
it will be something else even if he does. All I know is that none of these former world champions can beat Shane for the cash, Period.

Shane has also won more money around the world than anyone for 4 STRAIGHT YEARS going on 5!! Just like in the Color of Money, he who has the most is the best, just like in all walks of life. Put that in your foreign pipes and smoke it.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooo" ~ Ric Flair
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You realize the money list isn't always accurate,right?
 
lukemindish said:
I really hope Shane snaps this off and shuts up all you nits.
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Why do you refer to them as nits, simply because they don't agree with you.

Oh, and did I mention no one is a WORLD CHAMPION until they win a
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP it quite simple.

However if you want to call Shane a World Champion when you talk with your
imaginary friend, go for it. :wink:

We do agree on one thing, I hope Shane wins this too.
 
itsfroze said:
Why do you refer to them as nits, simply because they don't agree with you.

Oh, and did I mention no one is a WORLD CHAMPION until they win a
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP it quite simple.

However if you want to call Shane a World Champion when you talk with your
imaginary friend, go for it. :wink:

We do agree on one thing, I hope Shane wins this too.
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Because that's the behavior accepted on this forum. Someone doesn't agree with you, call them a nits.

Frankly, I want the best player in the field to win. If it's Shane, that would be great. Either way, in a few days we will have a world champion who bested a field of world class players to earn the title.
 
If both Shane and Nick Economopoulos win their first matches tomorrow, they play each other next. I bet that 50-21 loss in Greece will weigh heavily on Nick. ;)
 
corvette1340 said:
lol, it was the Predator WORLD 10-Ball Championship. How is not a real world championship?
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if you cannot look at the field and format for this event and see the vast difference between it and the Predator event you might as well stop following this sport as you are clearly not getting it.
 
itsfroze said:
Why do you refer to them as nits, simply because they don't agree with you.

Oh, and did I mention no one is a WORLD CHAMPION until they win a
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP it quite simple.

However if you want to call Shane a World Champion when you talk with your
imaginary friend, go for it. :wink:

We do agree on one thing, I hope Shane wins this too.
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I never said Shane was a world champion. I just really want Shane to win this so he can quiet all the talk that he doesn't play like the best in the world. He's a top player and puts in so much time and work into this game. I would absolutely love to see his reaction when he finally wins a world champion. I think if he wins his first match tomorrow he has a great chance of making it through the whole day.
 
AtLarge said:
If SVB and Wu win 2 more matches, they'll meet in the quarterfinals (last matches tomorrow). Maybe Shane would be in a good frame of mind for that, as he defeated Wu 11-7 just 2½ weeks ago in the China Open.
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The converse of that is Wu will be ready for a chance to redeem himself.

The fact remains that no athlete has complete control over the results in an event and that is why Shane will need to throw away any and all expectations and focus on doing what he already knows how to do. Expectations, especially from people with perfectionist ways, have a habit of disappointing the athlete.

If Shane focuses on playing pool like he already know how to, rather than the results, we may see a very happy Shane Van Boening.

GO SHANE!

JoeyA
 
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