zheng xiaohuai will play shenyi shen in the final. both are young, under 25 i would think
2026 JOY Heyball Grand Masters Finals
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Xiaohuai is 21.
There is a group at the wechat app where it shows all statistics from all chinese players from the last 5 years. Some have more than 1000 games played!
i don't think so, he was around 18-19 when he won the all japanese championship 10-ball and topped fargorate.. but icbw
either way he won, 39-36. incredible play from what i saw. opponent was very good too.
Zhao Ruliang is 24, and both of the finalists are younger than him. I think the guy who lost the match is only 21, not sure about the winner, although 891014+1 said he was 21. Might be a little older than that
the all japan was in 2019, so must be older. also in 2016 he won the under-17 world junior 9-ball.
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700k plus can go pretty far in the right Chinese city, plus pending perks and sponsorships
he's set for years, would be nice to be able to say the same about an upcoming WPA nine ball world champ
he's set for years, would be nice to be able to say the same about an upcoming WPA nine ball world champ
WNT doesn't have CCP funding. Can't compare the two.
250k isn't peanuts either. but with endorsements very little compares to china because of its size. ding junhui is probably the richest cueist of all time, despite never having won the world snooker (won everything else, but that's beside the point). sponsorships and endorsements rakes in a lot when the audience is 100 million or more
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Just to add some data info about this competition: world champions.
Wikipedia have wrong information, this are all the world championship heyball (chinese 8 ball) champions:
2013 - Gareth Potts
2014 - Gareth Potts
2015 - Yang Fan
2016 - Yang Fan
2017 - Gareth Potts
2018 - Zheng Yubo
2019 - Yu Haitao
2020 - Chu Bingjie
2021 - Zhao Ruliang
2022 - Zhao Ruliang
2023 - Zheng Yubo
2024 - Chu Bingjie
2025 - Niu Zhang
2026 - Zheng Xiaohuai
Wikipedia have wrong information, this are all the world championship heyball (chinese 8 ball) champions:
2013 - Gareth Potts
2014 - Gareth Potts
2015 - Yang Fan
2016 - Yang Fan
2017 - Gareth Potts
2018 - Zheng Yubo
2019 - Yu Haitao
2020 - Chu Bingjie
2021 - Zhao Ruliang
2022 - Zhao Ruliang
2023 - Zheng Yubo
2024 - Chu Bingjie
2025 - Niu Zhang
2026 - Zheng Xiaohuai
i think that's because they're two different outfits, one of which (xingpai?) owns the "world championship". joy instead calls their events grand great mega masters this and that final and shit