I'm finding it a bit humorous that folks are trying to diminish Johns feat because it wasn't in a competition setting. Because if it HAD to be in a competition setting, the record simply would never be broken.
Would any of today's 14.1 tournaments simply let a player continue to shoot, perhaps for hours, if their winning run hadn't stopped yet? The races only go to 150 or 200 at most, am I correct? TD's would never let those runs continue, unless it was the finals, because they would need to keep things going, as they should.
On top of that, we'd have the additional burden of the run HAVING to be video'd in order to be considered valid (by some). That's not going to happen in these tournaments.
Challenge match to 1000? How many of those are going happen?
Kudo's to John.
I agree. I'm also wondering if a match is played to 200 and the player has a run going and decides to keep running after hitting 200 are his balls made after 200 considered an exhibition at this point or match points.
Cheers,