Houston Qualifier Results

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Six players attended the Houston Qualifier at Trish Bida. Tenth place Nationals finalist from 2011 Thanh Vu, Doral Tour B winner Dung Nguyen and four challengers Phuc Le, Jason Tran, Khanh Ly and Hung Chong. The winner was Thanh Vu who went undefeated at 5-0. Thanh also won high run honors, taking the $100 prize donated by Doug Deitel, USBA Director with a run of 9! In fact, Thanh ran 9 twice... in his first and last game.

Special thanks to Marcus Norwood who showed up with his video equipment and recorded the final game between Thanh Vu and Dung Nguyen. Dung Nguyen took an early lead and if he held on could have had an upset win and first place. But when Thanh Vu ran 9... he signaled he was ready for Las Vegas and cruised home 25-16 in 23 innings. Marcus has the popular YouTube channel "Forcefollow" where we hope to see the video available soon.

Check out the USBA web site in the next few days... Jim Shovak has the cross-tables and will post the results there.
 
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Glad you managed to get some of the tournament on video. It's important for the posterity of the game. Sounds like you had an exciting tournament with some great players.
 
Videos of final round match between Thanh Vu and Dung Nguyen

Below are the links to the match. The audio was really full of noise and music so I muted it. I would have liked to have a straight on angle but circumstances did not allow for it. I was really lucky that I walked in when I did. They were ready to play as soon as I set the camera up.

I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did getting the chance to film. I am looking forward to doing more of this in the future.

NOTE THAT I PUT THAHN'S RUN OF 9 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST VIDEO. After the run you will get to see the whole game.

Part 1 with Intro
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
 
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