Germany/the Best Players On Earth

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LastTwo said:
Ok guys, that post was made TWO AND A HALF FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. LOL. At the time, Hohmann and Engert were unknowns to most of us, until Hohmann won the WPC. And by fluke, I didn't mean that he "got lucky", I meant that Alex was the favorite to win it, and Alex got no sleep and played the worst I've ever seen him play. I watched the finals many times, and Alex made way too many mistakes. Thorsten played great, but at the time I still felt he was not an upper-echelon player, like Reyes, Archer, Souqet, etc.

In those two years since I've made that post, Hohmann has proved that he most definately is an upper-echelon player, or "high tier" as I called it. I would place him in the top 10 best pool players alive. Engert is somewhere in the top 25, maybe better.

I didn't dig this topic up, somebody else did. What I said two years ago in this thread, I guarantee all of you, that there were ALOT of posters who agreed with me back then. Alot has happened since then, so you guys need to chill the hell out.
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Fair enough, really. I am glad you were here, and it's kind of irresponsible to to attack someone about a post two years old, and treat it like it's current news.
 
Gregg, are you the same guy that played in the Ballbuster Tournaments on Wednesdays? If you are I played you in the first round in that last tournament Forty had with the calcutta...
 
LastTwo said:
Ralph Souqet- Top tier player
Oliver Ortmann- Top tier player
Thorsten Hohmann- Low tier player (winning the WPC was a fluke)
Django- Phillipines, even if he lived on Mars he'd still be representing the Phillipines.
Thomas Engert- Low tier player

I'm not impressed.
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MANDATORY EDIT: When I first began reading this thread and typing my response, I never looked at the dates of each post. Nor did I read all the way to the end beofre replying thus, my reply below. Now I feel stupid! Sorry!!! :o

I hope this is meant as sarcasm! Ralph Souquet is without a doubt a top tier player as is Ortmann. But are you really going to call Thorsten Hohmann and Thomas Engert low-tier players??

Engert
2004: World Pool Masters Champion.
2004: International Challenge of Champions Winner
2004: 2nd Place; Sudden Death 7-Ball
2005: 2nd Place; Big Apple 9-Ball Classic
2005: 3rd Place; World Pool Masters
(not too bad for a "lower-tier player who doesn't eneter many events)

...and most recently, he finished second at the World Straight Pool Championships where he lost in the finals to your other choice for a lower tier player Thorsten Hohmann.

Hohmann
2003: Winner; World Pool Championship
2003: Winner; New Jersey State Straight Pool Championship
2003: 2nd Place; World Pool League
2003: 3rd Place; World Classic Billiards Tournament
2003: 5th Place; World Pool Masters
2004: 2nd Place; U.S Open
2004: 3rd Place; Skins Billiards Championship
2004: 5th place; World Pool Masters
2005: Winner; BCA Open 9-Ball Championship
2005: Winner; Sudden Death 7 Ball
2005: Winner; World Pool League
2005: 5th Place; World Summit of Pool
2005: 5th Place; World Pool Chamionship
... and lest we not forget his win in the World 14.1 Chamionship a few weeks ago! Not to mention his Turningstone Victory earlier this year.

These are two of the strongest players in the world!! To call them lower tier players makes me wonder who you consider to be "Upper tier" players.
 
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LastTwo said:
In those two years since I've made that post, Hohmann has proved that he most definately is an upper-echelon player, or "high tier" as I called it. I would place him in the top 10 best pool players alive. Engert is somewhere in the top 25, maybe better.
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Again, my apologies for not looking a little more closely. Anyway, I'd agree that Thorsten is without a doubt one of the strongest players in the world today. And as far as Engert I'd rate him in the top 20 and perhaps even higher, especially if talking about straight pool. Then, he would almost definitely be in my top 10. Not too bad for a guy who quit playing competitively for several years!!
 
Thomas Engert is a worlds best player at this moment

LastTwo said:
Thomas Engert- Low tier player
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Actually, he could be the best in the world right now. First place on Eurotour, straight run 491, first place in ALL the tournaments he ever did in US. :)
 
LOL he's not top 20. Still a hell of a player, but I saw him go 2 and out at he BCA in Vegas, thats still part of the US right???
 
Gregg said:
Yup, only on a message baord; I would love to have seen this guy mention this LOW-TIER FLUE junk to anybody within an ear shot at the 14.1 Worlds I was at in New Jersey.

NOBODY simply flukes their way to a 174 ball run at a World Championship, and FYI 9 ball is not the only game in town.

This is the kind irresponsible posting that make some of the Pros around here on the AZ head for the hills.
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14.1 hasn't been in town in 25 years and to many is a measurement in the sport today.
 
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