cheemagun said:
Last 16.
po-cheng kuo
vs
roman hybler
kun-chang huang
vs
thanh nam nguyen
jung-ling chang
vs
Rodney morris
vilmos foldes
vs
nick berg
marcus chamat
vs
chia-ching wu
thorsten hohmann
vs
jeremy jones
ying-chieh chen
vs
marlon manolo
mika immonen
vs
cory deuel
I hope that Deuel,Immonen,Jones,Hohmann,Chamat,Vanderburg or Morris make the final and that they are preferrably playing someone from Taiwan.I would also like to see someone new win it so Hohmann and Immonen would be secondary choices on the above list.
I say this not from a racist prespective,but rather from the fact that I am very familiar with these players and much less familiar with the players from Taiwan.
I think for me it would be less attractive if there were say 4(especially relativily unknown) Taiwan players in the final four.I think that scenario would make things really bland.For me there needs to be that hometown favorite against an outside intruder.That hero vs villian thing can definitly make things more exciting.If all the Taiwan players are eliminated before the finals or semi's, I think the tournament also can lose some flavour,(particuliarliy for the locals) as well.They are absolutley dying to see a player from Taiwan crowned champion on their soil.They are waiting to crown a King.
I was really hoping for Alex last year against Chang.He had his fans for sure,however, the crowd there was estatic when he was down 10-4 and they could smell blood.They actually cheered loudly(Chao hill-hill match especially) at times with his misses.It's something we are not accustomed to in North America as we try to show etiquite for players from all nations.The more they cheered, the more I wanted Alex to win.Because they are against great great players from Taiwan and their boisterious fans,it makes me side with the outsider underdog for sure.
The perfect scenario:
Someone from Taiwan against someone from America or Europe in the final.JMO....RJ
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