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.

Looking at the order of play for Team ROW, it is kind of revealing who JJ "might" think is strongest to weakest so far. Fedor, Jayson, Sky, Francisco, and Moritz, in that exact order.

 

[gopi-1]

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.

Looking at the order of play for Team ROW, it is kind of revealing who JJ "might" think is strongest to weakest so far. Fedor, Jayson, Sky, Francisco, and Moritz, in that exact order.

I believe they have to take turns playing singles JAM. I don’t read too much into it, although the best 2 players for Team ROW was common knowledge (Gorst & Shaw).

 

[skogstokig]

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.

Looking at the order of play for Team ROW, it is kind of revealing who JJ "might" think is strongest to weakest so far. Fedor, Jayson, Sky, Francisco, and Moritz, in that exact order.

he's a double world champion, US open champion, he doesn't have the right to feel pressure against a kid with no title to his name

FSR is the weakest link at the moment. he's been fighting this twitchiness his entire career. when he manages to curb it we all know how crazy good he can can be. if i were JJ i would bench him as much as possible

 

[iusedtoberich]

I don't think FSR ever recovered from leaving Predator cues behind.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Browser viewing trick I just stumbled on watching yesterday's replay:

The spacebar key remembers the last thing you did.

If you click with the mouse on the 10 sec rewind button, then every time after that, pressing the spacebar will rewind 10 sec. If you then click with the mouse on the fast forward 10 sec button, every time afterward pressing the spacebar will fast forward 10 sec. Same with the full screen button.

This is on a Mac using Safari. Untested otherwise.

I haven't found any key combos to fast forward and rewind like the J and L key on youtube do.

 

[Monti]

a vote on AZB would have led to Sky being on the team.

No. It would be Kaci and Earl!

 

[SA96]

If Gorst doesn't beat AJ Manas, then ROW might as well go home.

 

[Rocket354]

Anyone know the biggest comeback in Mosconi Cup history? Wondering when I should start trying to find something else to do.

 

[8intheside]

If Gorst doesn't beat AJ Manas, then ROW might as well go home.

He should, but In a short race anything can happen

 

[SA96]

Just had a cheeky bet on ROW to win outright.

Team Asia look fragile.

 

[spartan]

he's a double world champion, US open champion, he doesn't have the right to feel pressure against a kid with no title to his name

FSR is the weakest link at the moment. he's been fighting this twitchiness his entire career. when he manages to curb it we all know how crazy good he can can be. if i were JJ i would bench him as much as possible

LOL, even though Gorst is underperformer in Mosconi, I just cannot visualise Gorst shaking in his boots under pressure playing against AJ.
Yes AJ had a relatively good Day1 albeit with less pressure thin crowds and other players still trying to settle down. But playing AJ upfront instead of their strongest experienced players in 2 consecutive matches is foolish. Some say Manas pick by Team Asia was to help Team ROW (wink wink with some input from Matchroom). Team Asia weaker Day 2 lineup may be also to give Team ROW chance to catch up to make it more competitive (again with some input from Matchroom?) .
Few years ago, Alex Lely gave team Europe a “scolding” when Europe fell behind early in MC and that turned around Europe. JJ has to pull a Lely move or if ROW does not win day 2 by at least 2 points and they go into Day 3 tomorrow trailing by 3 points or more, it is game over.
If they play 4 matches today, ROW has to win 3-1 or if they play 5 matches, ROW has to win 4-1