The Action Report is excited to announce TAR 21: Pagulayan vs Van Boening on September 23-25. This epic match between two world class players is a continuation in their ongoing rivalry that has given us some of the best matches in recent times.
In May of 2008 Shane and Alex played a race to 100 TAR match at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Shane dominated for the first two days and then Alex made what many have said was the best comeback performance ever. Down by 15 games on the final day he caught Shane at 92-92 and went on to win the match.
Since that day Shane has been waiting for his chance at a rematch and now it is here.
The match is a race to 100, Ten Ball played on a nine foot Diamond table. It will take place in the new TAR Studio located in Las Vegas, NV. The match will be played September 23-25. Match play will begin at 7 PM Eastern each day. The format is that they will play the first day until one reaches thirty five wins, second day until one gets to seventy wins and finish the set on the third day. It is a $10,000 per man entry fee. Winner takes all.
You can watch the entire match live as it happens via streaming Pay Per View on theactionreport.com . The price for the live coverage is $35 for a three day package or $15 per single day. The coverage will feature three camera coverage with camera operators to bring you all the angles. There will be a few seats available in the Studio but they will be extremely limited. Info on Studio seats will be available soon. The Pay Per View coverage will be available for purchase starting September 20.
TAR would like to thank our match sponsors Kamui Tips, CueSports International, Diamond Tables and Spot Clothing for all of their help and support in making this epic rematch possible. Special thanks to David "Viffer" Peat for his help in putting the match together. We hope you will join us September 23-25 for what is sure to be a historic clash of two great champions.
Thats the press release. This is from me personally:
I want to tank everyone here. Without this place and the people in it things like this would never happen.
If anyone has any questions or comments please post them up. I dont know whats happening with commentary yet but I am working on it. Its looking like we will have about ten to twelve seats in the Studio for the match. They will be expensive but there is no other place or atmosphere like what will happen in the Studio on those three days. As soon as we get a hard number on staff and player comps we will know where we are on the seating.
As I'm sure some will notice we raised our prices for the stream. We did our first PPV match September 14, 2007. The price was $25. We did our 20th match on March 18, 2011 and the price was $25. After almost four years it is time to bump the price. It amounts to $3.33 a day for the three day package. We have also increased our compensation to the players and have to pay camera operators. I think the product is still a fantastic value at the new price. Hopefully it will not keep anyone who wants to watch from joining us.
I have been waiting for this one ever since the Alex sunk the case ball in 2008. Its going to be epic.
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CaliRed will be providing live tech support for this event, so any issues with logins will be fixed right away.
From CaliRed,
Hi guys! I created a video to help people with buying and accessing the TAR PPV's. I hope all of you that may have hedged before in the past about getting a PPV, will order this one. This is going to be the best TAR production yet... See the end of this post for all the links you need.
What you get.
1. Two of the best pool players in the world today. Shane Van Boening and Alex Pagulayan. Playing a race to 100 10 ball over 3 days.
2. You are going to get to watch probably close to 20 hours of pool or more, if you watched it all.
3. You are going to get the best pool commentator in the business (in mine and many others opinion) Mr. Billy Incardona and he will be working with another excellent commentator, Mr. Jay Helfert. Both of these guys have been deeply involved in pool for most of their lives. This is a excellent commentating team. Thanks to Billy and Jay for doing this!
4. You will get to witness the 1st real matchup in the new TAR studio. A intimate surrounding with all the TAR equipment in place and a reliable Internet feed, so this will be a controlled production, not left up to the problems of streaming on the road.
5. You will get live tech support to help you with any login issues you have, so your problems of logging in should be able to be solved very quickly. I will be responsible for this area. While I cannot troubleshoot your PC for you, most of any issues that come up, are simple login problems, which I can solve very quickly.
6. You will see multiple camera angles and camera operators that will give you a ESPN production look at the action.
So be a part of TAR 21 !!! If you've never bought a PPV, please give it a try this weekend. This is your chance to see what streaming is like today, in regards to TAR.
Here is a link to a Tutorial I made on how to buy and access a TAR PPV. Please view in full screen. Sorry for the part near the end where I am summarizing the whole procedure, my mouse didn't move in that clip and I wasn't going to redo it:smile: Regardless that was just a summary anyways. Near the end of it, I also show you how to alter your PPV window size, to make it larger.
Here are all the links you need!!!
The TAR Home Page -There are links to purchase the PPV and a link to access the PPV.
The link to to the PPV Tutorial Video I made
Link to email address for instant tech support
The link to a post I made regarding changing the window size of the PPV window.
Link to the Adobe Flash site to make sure your flash player is up to date
Link to the Adobe Flash page to uninstall your Flash player so you can reinstall it
Link to show what version of Flash you have installed
See you tonight or this weekend at TAR 21 !!!!
"CaliRed"
UPDATE: It's 3:00 am central time and it's 33 Shane - 31 Alex. A couple more games and it's a wrap for tonight. Tomorrow they go to 70 and Sunday to 100. Come join us!