2024 World 8 Ball Championship (2-8 Sep), New Zealand , Winner $75K

Here's the field as text...
  1. Masato Yoshioka
  2. Kashyap Choudhary
  3. Toan Nguyen
  4. Sheridan Burmester
  5. Kurt Dunham
  6. Kenko Suzuki
  7. Hassan Abdalla
  8. Brent Ogg
  9. Albin Ouschan
  10. Zhankui Gao
  11. Wojciech Szewczyk
  12. Thorsten Hohmann
  13. Theodore Mullan
  14. Szymon Kural
  15. Syed Hasan A. Rizvi
  16. Sullivan Clark
  17. Stephen Holem
  18. Stefan Kasper
  19. Sanjin Pehlivanovic
  20. Ruben Bautista
  21. Roman Hybler
  22. Ralf Souquet
  23. Radoslaw Babica
  24. Pijus Labutis
  25. Phuong Nam Pham
  26. Othman Alzahrani
  27. Naoyuki Oi
  28. Mieszko Fortunski
  29. Matthew Edwards
  30. Mateusz Sniegocki
  31. Mario He
  32. Marco Teutscher
  33. Kun Lin Wu
  34. Konrad Juszczyszyn
  35. Kieran Dempsey
  36. Justin Sajich
  37. Jung Lin Chang
  38. Jui-An Hsu
  39. José Ramon Diaz Diaz
  40. José Alberto Delgado
  41. John Wims
  42. Huan Fu
  43. Ho-Sum Lo
  44. Hayato Hijikata
  45. Gerson Martinez
  46. Emil-André Gangflot
  47. Dominic Mareko
  48. Dimitrios Loukatos
  49. Dennis Laszkowski
  50. Denis Grabe
  51. Darren Appleton
  52. Daniel Maciol
  53. Daniel Guttenberger
  54. Chia-Chen Hsieh
  55. Chetan Chhabra
  56. Carreon Jr. Constancio
  57. Bader Alawadhi
  58. Alex Pagulayan
  59. Ahmad Fahad A Alqhtani
  60. Adrian Prasad
  61. Abdullah Alenzi
  62. Alex Kazakis
  63. Joshua Filler
  64. Carlo Biado
 
I seem to remember Gorst saying in an interview that he won't be playing in the men's 10-Ball event, but he will be there to support Kristina in the women's 9-Ball event.
 
Players who play in this tournament are not scabs. Full stop.

I have no problem with players who choose to spend the time and money to play in this tournament. At the end of the day, they need to look out for their family first and foremost. Just don’t go back on your word if you were part of the contingent that posted on social media about skipping WPA events until the ban issue is resolved.
 
mikepage said:
Well OK...

But there are 10 provinces, and yours has more people than the bottom 8 combined.
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As always, when you exclude the inconvenient data. Everything makes obvious sense... You make it seem like Ontario is/was the obvious choice merely based on it's population. Problem is, even with player dense area. The events struggle to reach 50players. The truth of the matter is that the CBSA (governing body) **didn't have any clout beyond Ontario's borders, (**things have been shifting). Probably the best thing going in organized pool within Canada is the East coast. I remember a couple years back they were hinting at maybe hosting the 8b out West. The much more popular game that way from what I've been told. Oddly enough it didn't happen. However the Lady's 8/9/10b ended up that way. Convenient hosted by a room ran by a couple of top Canadian female players.

Fortunately Quebec has taken an interest in hosting the 9/10b events. They did it last year, and I suspect it will happen again.
 
The field is quite a bit weaker than that of the US Open, but I think this is still a very tough field.

The door may be open for a Cinderella because eight ball played without "take what you make" is way too easy for the top pros and, for that reason, it is largely a breaking contest. The runout rate after a successful rate is ridiculously high.

I think SVB has the best 8-ball break in the world and would have had a great chance to defend.

As many know, the fact that there is very big money available at the Texas Open, which begins today, caused many who might have gone to New Zealand to skip the World 8ball event and head to Texas instead.
 
I "think" Gorst and Filler are there to support their wives in the Women's division. I wonder if they will be talked into playing the Men's division.
 
sjm said:
The field is quite a bit weaker than that of the US Open, but I think this is still a very tough field.

The door may be open for a Cinderella because eight ball played without "take what you make" is way too easy for the top pros and, for that reason, it is largely a breaking contest. The runout rate after a successful rate is ridiculously high.

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I have a version of 8-Ball that I call Pass-Off 8-Ball that is I think more suitable at the pro level.
Open Table and Take-What-You-Make can be described as

Open Table --shooter following the break always shoots the easier suit
Take-What-You-Make -- shooter following the break half the time shoots the easier suit

Pass-Off --shooter following the break never shoots the easier suit

In Pass-Off 8-Ball, player at the table following the break may elect to Shoot or to Pass, and in either case opponent chooses the suit. So if I break and make a ball and solids look good and stripes look not as good but still OK, I will choose to shoot and you will probably assign stripes to me. If instead solids look good and stripes look hard, I will pass to you and assign you stripes. This seems a little confusing at first. But you get used to it quickly, and for runout players, including good amateurs on 7-foot tables, it makes 8-Ball much more interesting. It also makes short races more probative of skill rather than vagaries of the break. A good break still helps because you are more likely in the decision position. But it is far less important than in the traditional approaches.
 
mikepage said:
I have a version of 8-Ball that I call Pass-Off 8-Ball that is I think more suitable at the pro level.
Open Table and Take-What-You-Make can be described as

Open Table --shooter following the break always shoots the easier suit
Take-What-You-Make -- shooter following the break half the time shoots the easier suit

Pass-Off --shooter following the break never shoots the easier suit

In Pass-Off 8-Ball, player at the table following the break may elect to Shoot or to Pass, and in either case opponent chooses the suit. So if I break and make a ball and solids look good and stripes look not as good but still OK, I will choose to shoot and you will probably assign stripes to me. If instead solids look good and stripes look hard, I will pass to you and assign you stripes. This seems a little confusing at first. But you get used to it quickly, and for runout players, including good amateurs on 7-foot tables, it makes 8-Ball much more interesting. It also makes short races more probative of skill rather than vagaries of the break. A good break still helps because you are more likely in the decision position. But it is far less important than in the traditional approaches.
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i like it!
 
mikepage said:
I have a version of 8-Ball that I call Pass-Off 8-Ball that is I think more suitable at the pro level.
Open Table and Take-What-You-Make can be described as

Open Table --shooter following the break always shoots the easier suit
Take-What-You-Make -- shooter following the break half the time shoots the easier suit

Pass-Off --shooter following the break never shoots the easier suit

In Pass-Off 8-Ball, player at the table following the break may elect to Shoot or to Pass, and in either case opponent chooses the suit. So if I break and make a ball and solids look good and stripes look not as good but still OK, I will choose to shoot and you will probably assign stripes to me. If instead solids look good and stripes look hard, I will pass to you and assign you stripes. This seems a little confusing at first. But you get used to it quickly, and for runout players, including good amateurs on 7-foot tables, it makes 8-Ball much more interesting. It also makes short races more probative of skill rather than vagaries of the break. A good break still helps because you are more likely in the decision position. But it is far less important than in the traditional approaches.
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Very innovative, Mike. I like the sound of it.
 
Mt favorite event. World 8-Ball Championship. Best of Luck to Team Poland. Wish wiktor could have made it this year. He has a pretty good record in this. Really pulling for Ruben Bautista to go deep in the tournament. Wishing them all the best! Let's go, Ruben!
 
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