I order to get to the championship round, you had to win your way through a field of participants.
Irrelevant unless they decided a match and more to the point the ability to execute jump shots is not a direct indicator of success to win sets. You need to rethink your position of this matter.
Not to argue skill in differing eras but you do know that outside of the "challenge matches", you had city qualifiers, sectional qualifiers and national qualifiers to get to the round robin of the world championship?
The current champion was normally seeded into the world championship and did not have to play in the Nationals, I believe.
Let’s see how many times he wins something like that 2 years, 5 years or (?) years consecutively.
I'm pretty sure I checked when I created the table from those tournament listings from Ursitti. So, in the absence of any other input I'll go with 19.Not sure.
you can check if you like-
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Yes I am pretty sure you are correct.
Yep, your right thanks for making me check, while making the list I missed out one of his wins in 1951, he won soo man times, I lots track! I'll correct it, that's right it was Greenleaf's 20 wins I turned to 19 due to one of the tournaments called the National Championship. Well it looks like they're tied for 19!
We've heard any number of stories about a world class player playing One Pocket against someone with more experience at the game, getting beat the first day or two, then ending up spotting the player multiple balls before they end up quitting. Pattern recognition and the ability to reverse engineer a shot they've only seen once is part of the world champion skillset. Mosconi would play a few months, and know as much about route selection as the very best in the game. Mosconi practiced what he needed to practice, obsessively, and there's no reason to expect that this would change if the main money game was 9 ball, versus straight pool.
He was playing on different cloth. Route selection is heavily dependent on cloth speed and rail responsiveness. 9 ball was a different game on slower cloth with less responsive rails in the 80s/early 90s.
Again, your position has nothing to do with the actual overall question. 1. The "highlight reel" jump shots made by Europe did not help them win the cup in 2019. 2. Have you determined that the jump shots made here were the deciding factors in the matches in which they employed? 3. They are some likely kick safes for someone who has some proficiency in 3 cushion in these scenarios (not all). 4. Mosconi was as good at managing a table as Ben Hogan was at course management. 5. The side you are taking here is that superior jumping ability is a higher priority than shot making, cue ball control and strategy?
The question you really need to ask yourself is how many times would Willie ever need to play a jump shot?
You’re really revealing your lack of creativity, or knowledge of rail kick shots, especially the Diamond system,
I agree! Different culture, equipment, etc., make ultimate comparisons between vastly different eras nonsensical. I'm fortunate in that I was able to meet Willie later in his life and play a game of 8-ball on a bar table with him at the Ritchie Florence 1983 Ceasar's Tahoe tournament (could have been 1984 possibly). He is an American legend in pocket billiards.
