Agipi qualification weekend

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Bert van Manen

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Final qualification weekend for the Agipi Masters today: Jaspers and Caudron both made it, Caudron 4 and 0, Jaspers 2, 1 draw, 1 loss.
Here is the Jaspers - Caudron match in 1 sentence:
26 -2 in 7, 44 - 7 in 15 (14), 47 - 50 in 24. Yep, running a couple of 5's and a 20 can turn a match around.
 
Bert van Manen said:
Final qualification weekend for the Agipi Masters today: Jaspers and Caudron both made it, Caudron 4 and 0, Jaspers 2, 1 draw, 1 loss.
Here is the Jaspers - Caudron match in 1 sentence:
26 -2 in 7, 44 - 7 in 15 (14), 47 - 50 in 24. Yep, running a couple of 5's and a 20 can turn a match around.
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So Fred had 43 in 10 while Dick only got 3 in his last 9? This is like the story of the hare and the other hare.
 
Having played a lot of 14.1 in a previous life....it's not so uncommon to be racing to 100pts and being at the 95/96 mark and the opponent with a score of -2. He wins a few innings later. I've been on both ends of this roller coaster. And not too uncommon in 3c. Momentum shifting can happen at the drop of a hat. What makes this so poignant is that it was streamed and it happened arguably to the 2 best players in the world.

The beauty of streaming is having recordings of these moments in perpetuity. I tell my USBA director cohorts how important streaming is! There will be a time Hugo or Pedro or anyone of our top players run a 35. More streaming means capturing more of these moments like Kozoom did at AGIPI.
 
Steve, with you on the streaming. As for the run of 35: if Hugo or Pedro did it, I'd be the first to say: it could not have happened to a nicer guy. But given the development of the world record high run in the past two decades, there's serious odds against a 30 run. A 32 run: 5 times more unlikely. A 35 run? Astronomical odds against it happening in our lifetime.
 
Bert,

Although the odds that you cited are probably correct, you may be missing the over-arching point of my streaming comment...and that is....a record by definition will be broken. Maybe not today or next week or next year. But it will be broken. And it may be broken by a significant margin all mathematical odds aside. The point is to capture that moment. And that can only be done by streaming as many events as one can. Those are the odds I am referring to.
 
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