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Ok, maybe I’m wrong, but the scratch on the 9-ball by Chip at 56:15 looks intentional to me. He was already up one set and leading the second set 4-3. Did he throw this game to make the race closer to increase entertainment value and viewership? His reaction after the fact looked less than upset about the horrible shot.

Thoughts?
 
aaronataylor said:
Ok, maybe I’m wrong, but the scratch on the 9-ball by Chip at 56:15 looks intentional to me. He was already up one set and leading the second set 4-3. Did he throw this game to make the race closer to increase entertainment value and viewership? His reaction after the fact looked less than upset about the horrible shot.

Thoughts?
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Dogging it and laying down are indistinguishable to an observer.
 
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aaronataylor said:
Ok, maybe I’m wrong, but the scratch on the 9-ball by Chip at 56:15 looks intentional to me. He was already up one set and leading the second set 4-3. Did he throw this game to make the race closer to increase entertainment value and viewership? His reaction after the fact looked less than upset about the horrible shot.

Thoughts?
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Dumping is so rare it is better to assume it never happens than to start seeing conspiracies in ordinary mistakes. And as the last poster noted, it is almost impossible to identify it from game play. Pressure and loss of focus can lead to amazing mistakes from even the world's best.

But while you can never prove dumping from video footage, it is often easy to disprove. If he wanted to throw this game he could've missed the safety on the 8 ball or just missed the long difficult shot on the 8. It wouldn't make any sense to play a lock up safe and come with that shot to follow a 9 straight in the hole. Just a little carelessness there, he though he had enough angle to follow out two rails.

Chip can be a little loose sometimes, but it also allows him to trust his stroke and play strong under the pressure. Heck of a player. He ran circles around me when we played ten years ago and I'm not rearing for a rematch.
 
Tin Man said:
Dumping is so rare it is better to assume it never happens than to start seeing conspiracies in ordinary mistakes. And as the last poster noted, it is almost impossible to identify it from game play. Pressure and loss of focus can lead to amazing mistakes from even the world's best.

But while you can never prove dumping from video footage, it is often easy to disprove. If he wanted to throw this game he could've missed the safety on the 8 ball or just missed the long difficult shot on the 8. It wouldn't make any sense to play a lock up safe and come with that shot to follow a 9 straight in the hole. Just a little carelessness there, he though he had enough angle to follow out two rails.

Chip can be a little loose sometimes, but it also allows him to trust his stroke and play strong under the pressure. Heck of a player. He ran circles around me when we played ten years ago and I'm not rearing for a rematch.
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Thank you for the detailed explanation. Makes sense.
 
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