GROUPS World 14.1. Upcoming Matches. Results. Photos.

Someone asked about the payouts.
1st place $5500
2nd $4000
3rd and 4th $2400
5-8 $1600
9-12 $850
14-16 $600
I have attended this event for many years. It was easy when it was in New Jersey only minutes from my house. When it moved to Steinway I started attending only Wednesday thru Saturday.

The early rounds got to be boring with fewer and fewer top names. This year was just awful. I arrived Thursday and saw several top players, but only playing much weaker players. Too many buys at every level.

I stayed over to watch the Friday matches. I could not believe the draw for the day. How can you get to the round of 16 with 4 byes!!!! Everyone should be playing. I came to see top players facing off.


One match at 11 with two players I do not know. One decent match at 1:30. I was not paying to wait for 3 hours to see one world class player. Then pay again for the evening matches.

I just left. I doubt I will attend this event again. I feel sorry for the room owners. They could not possibly make any money with an event like this. I bought a raffle ticket to help them out.
 
kaznj said:
Someone asked about the payouts.
1st place $5500
2nd $4000
3rd and 4th $2400
5-8 $1600
9-12 $850
14-16 $600
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(Probably 13th place got $600 unless they were really unlucky:).)

That's $26,500. If the 30 entries were $600, that would be $8500 added. I believe some of the qualifiers may have paid slightly more.
 
mjantti said:
On what basis were the byes given to the players in the final single elimination bracket?
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The 4 players who got the byes in the SE stage are Hohmann, Kiamco, Robles, and Schmidt. They are also the only 4 players who went through both the round-robin stage and the double-elimination stage undefeated. Perhaps that's the reason.
 
Joe_Jaguar said:
So did anyone actually get the stream of these wonderful matches? :eek: How has it been?
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The stream, technically, has been good. I think it was down once quite briefly, and had no audio for a couple racks in another match, but otherwise no problems.

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As to today's pool upset --

Michael Badstuebner, a NY player who sometimes commentates in this event, played quite a solid match and defeated Johnny Archer by 50-some balls.
 
AtLarge said:
The stream, technically, has been good. I think it was down once quite briefly, and had no audio for a couple racks in another match, but otherwise no problems.

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As to today's pool upset --

Michael Badstuebner, a NY player who sometimes commentates in this event, played quite a solid match and defeated Johnny Archer by 50-some balls.
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Thanks. Nice to hear Fingers beat Archer.
 
When does the stream start today (Saturday)? It looks like some good matchups on the card.

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StraightPoolIU said:
When does the stream start today (Saturday)? It looks like some good matchups on the card.

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According to the flowchart, 11 am local time.

Edit -- It will be Robles vs. Immonen.
 
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AtLarge said:
The 4 players who got the byes in the SE stage are Hohmann, Kiamco, Robles, and Schmidt. They are also the only 4 players who went through both the round-robin stage and the double-elimination stage undefeated. Perhaps that's the reason.
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Oh yes, good observation and must be the case. Thank you!
 
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