2025 Reyes Cup, Oct 16-19, Manilla. Team Asia vs Team World

[pt109]

Even in your unlikely scenario, there would have to be a baseline robustness level.

Strip out Ali and six of the 10 players in the Reyes are in the top 10 Fargo ratings.

Ali has played over 300 games that are Fargo rated …..

 

[jay helfert]

It's a beautiful.arena and a First Class production typical of Matchroom. We had a good crowd (a few hundred) who cheered loudly, were partisan for Asia, but were respectful of all the players.

Good officiating by both referees as well. They moved around so as not to block one group more than others. Got in good position to see the close hits and potential fouls as well.

What looked to be a good match up on paper turned out to be a rout, thanks to so many unforced errors by ROW. The crowd loved AJ Manas and he responded with solid play.

Emily was all over tending to her new event. Her cheerful attitude and friendly manner makes her a lovable promoter. Better yet she is effective and managed the proceedings well. The Reyes Cup will only get better over the years. Just like the MC in its infancy.

Scott Frost is a top notch commentator and equally good at interviews. He has risen to the top of his game.

Let's hope ROW can get something going today and make a match out of it. They've got the horses!

 

[8intheside]

One thing I noticed was in the match with Shaw and FSR, they didn’t look comfortable at all. Both of them played very nervously and timid. I guess playing In the mosconi cup they knew they’d win, here they are hoping to win. BIG DIFFERENCE

 

[sudocrushms]

4-0... Wow. I knew it likely wasn't going to be good for ROW, but i wasn't expecting THAT. (Rinse and repeat from last year)

Thoughts:
- Asia is really, really good. BUT the scary part is they could probably be even better...
- Who are theses imposters and what did they do with Shaw and FSR?
- Carlo's safety game is stupidly good and better than i remember.
- Fedor could win WWIII with a jump cue
- Manas was built for this and he'll thrive in this environment
- Moritz is just straight up tired.
- Choosing Sky was a mistake. ROW *needs* Filler/Szewczyk/Kaci.

 

[sudocrushms]

JJ has never come close to winning anything as a captain, neither him nor Sky should be anywhere near this. Other than maybe commentating.

I could be on board with Sky broadcasting.

 

[skogstokig]

Team ROW does not sound nice either in any way. Would not know what else to call it, but it doesn't have a nice ring to it.

team skid row - puts bums in the seats

team aphasia

team caucasia (maybe a bit borderline)

 

[DaWizard]

Team notAsia
Team Mortals
Team Participation
Team Pocket Poolers

Seriously I mightve gone for team World, even though that includes Asia.
In the end a format with Team USA x Team Europe (Mosconi cup) and Team Phillipines x Team Asia with the Reyes Cup being the final would be awesome.

 

[trob]

I realllyyy want to care but I just don’t.

 

[gopi-1]

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐏

𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐 - 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀Y

Match 5 — Team Match
Team Asia vs Team Rest of the World

Match 6 — Singles
AJ Manas vs Fedor Gorst

Match 7 — Doubles
AJ Manas & Johann Chua vs Fedor Gorst & Jayson Shaw

Match 8 — Singles
Duong Quoc Hoang vs Skyler Woodward

Match 9 — Doubles
Aloysius Yapp & Carlo Biado vs Francisco Sánchez Ruiz & Moritz Neuhausen

 

[JAM]

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐏

𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐 - 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀Y

Match 5 — Team Match
Team Asia vs Team Rest of the World

Match 6 — Singles
AJ Manas vs Fedor Gorst

Match 7 — Doubles
AJ Manas & Johann Chua vs Fedor Gorst & Jayson Shaw

Match 8 — Singles
Duong Quoc Hoang vs Skyler Woodward

Match 9 — Doubles
Aloysius Yapp & Carlo Biado vs Francisco Sánchez Ruiz & Moritz Neuhausen

Wow! Pressure on Fedor to be the first one out of the gate (without the team) on Day 2 for Team ROW. Interesting they will have 5 matches today. If it's another whitewash, I imagine that it will be reduced to 4 total.