Maldives Open 10 Ball 2024 (25-30June) Winner $32K

spartan

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Strong field 18x800 with number of top 10 Fargorate.

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FORMAT
Group stage
Double elimination(80 players)
16 groups of 5 players. Does not appear to be any online brackets or scoring

Single elimination stage
LAST 64 TO FINALS
64 players Single Elimination to Finals
RACE LENGTH
Group Stage: Race to 8
Last 64 to Semi-Finals: Race to 10
Finals: Race to 10

Groups A to J
https://www.facebook.com/MaldivesPo...rxfg2SF1YHDT6CrBex1EdH3nMfw5pLgJWY3oXZhe3aBjl

Groups K to P
https://www.facebook.com/MaldivesPo...skTQuj7LPJi5eXwuj8ijY9do4KZFi9nRGmBBTxH2F6b7l

Free Youtube Stream- 8 tables
https://www.youtube.com/@maldivespool-billiardassoc2399/streams

Event Info
https://www.acbs.qa/PDF/2024/pool/MaldivesOpen2024.pdf

Facebook updates https://www.facebook.com/MaldivesPool
 
Bob Jewett

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spartan said:
Strong field 18x800 with number of top 10 Fargorate.
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Double elimination(80 players)
16 groups of 5 players. ...

Single elimination stage
LAST 64 TO FINALS
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So, only one player is eliminated from each group of five players in the double elimination stage. I imagine they were planning for 128.

No Americans playing unless you want to count Fedor and John Morra. :eek:

With five players in each group, it would make a lot more sense to play a round robin with two advancing. With DE there are three byes in each bracket.
 
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From the Athletes Guide, it looks like they hoped for 96 players, 16 groups of 6, with 4 from each group going to the single-elimination stage.

They got 80 instead of 96, and are playing in 16 groups of 5. But from the brackets on Facebook, it looks like just 3 of the 5 from each group qualify for the single-elimination stage, which would make 48 instead of 64 for the "Last 64." Could there be some other stage to add 16 back, making 64?

The "Spots Allocations" indicate 6 spots for North America, in addition to any players from North America from the 40 spots allocated for WPA ranked players or wild cards. But, as Bob noted, it looks like only 2 players from North America are there.
 
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Bob Jewett said:
So, only one player is eliminated from each group of five players in the double elimination stage. I imagine they were planning for 128.

No Americans playing unless you want to count Fedor and John Morra. :eek:

With five players in each group, it would make a lot more sense to play a round robin with two advancing. With DE there are three byes in each bracket.
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Advancing 4 out of 5 (i.e. 80%) means lot more dead wood, dead money so yes 2 out of 5 (40%) is more palatable
As comparison, Matchroom US Open UK Open advance 25% of field into single elimination stage (64 out of 256)
Recent WPC advanced 50% of field ( 64 out of 128)
AtLarge said:
From the Athletes Guide, it looks like they hoped for 96 players, 16 groups of 6, with 4 from each group going to the single-elimination stage.

They got 80 instead of 96, and are playing in 16 groups of 5. But from the brackets on Facebook, it looks like just 3 of the 5 from each group qualify for the single-elimination stage, which would make 48 instead of 64 for the "Last 64." Could there be some other stage to add 16 back, making 64?

The "Spots Allocations" indicate 6 spots for North America, in addition to any players from North America from the 40 spots allocated for WPA ranked players or wild cards. But, as Bob noted, it looks like only 2 players from North America are there.
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Yes looks likely they will modify reduce % advancing from 4 to 3 out of 5 (i.e. 60%)
 
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spartan said:
Advancing 4 out of 5 (i.e. 80%) means lot more dead wood, dead money so yes 2 out of 5 (40%) is more palatable
As comparison, Matchroom US Open UK Open advance 25% of field into single elimination stage (64 out of 256)
Recent WPC advanced 50% of field ( 64 out of 128)

Yes looks likely they will modify reduce % advancing from 4 to 3 out of 5 (i.e. 60%)
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In effect that will be 2 of 5 as I think the first round of SE will be 32 players from the losers' side of the DE brackets. Presumably they will have been redrawn.
 
Bob Jewett

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I think the location kept the numbers down. The flights seem to be not too expensive ($1300 from SFO) but over 24 hours.
 
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So it was indeed 48 players (16 x 3) who qualified for the knock-out rounds. 32 of them (16 matches) play in Round 1 of the knock-outs today (Thursday). The winners go into Round 2 on Friday afternoon (there) with the other 16 players, who qualified directly for Round 2. The round of 16 players is on Friday evening, the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. So the winner of the tournament will play either 1 match or no matches on Thursday, 2 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday -- all races to 10 (unless they change that). Pretty soft!

Kind of odd to me, 15 of the 16 players going directly into Round 2 were the ones who qualified by winning just one match in the qualifying rounds, while the other player going directly to Round 2 (Maciol, Group M) lost his first match and then won twice on the losers' side. The player who qualified in Group M by winning just one match, Sugihara Tadasu, is in Round 1. Maybe it has something to do with prior rankings.
 
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AtLarge said:
So it was indeed 48 players (16 x 3) who qualified for the knock-out rounds. 32 of them (16 matches) play in Round 1 of the knock-outs today (Thursday). The winners go into Round 2 on Friday afternoon (there) with the other 16 players, who qualified directly for Round 2. The round of 16 players is on Friday evening, the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. So the winner of the tournament will play either 1 match or no matches on Thursday, 2 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday -- all races to 10 (unless they change that). Pretty soft!

Kind of odd to me, 15 of the 16 players going directly into Round 2 were the ones who qualified by winning just one match in the qualifying rounds, while the other player going directly to Round 2 (Maciol, Group M) lost his first match and then won twice on the losers' side. The player who qualified in Group M by winning just one match, Sugihara Tadasu, is in Round 1. Maybe it has something to do with prior rankings.
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prior rankings sounds unfair.. racks won/lost would make more sense
 
spartan

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Down to last 8
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AtLarge said:
So it was indeed 48 players (16 x 3) who qualified for the knock-out rounds. 32 of them (16 matches) play in Round 1 of the knock-outs today (Thursday). The winners go into Round 2 on Friday afternoon (there) with the other 16 players, who qualified directly for Round 2. The round of 16 players is on Friday evening, the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. So the winner of the tournament will play either 1 match or no matches on Thursday, 2 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday -- all races to 10 (unless they change that). Pretty soft!

Kind of odd to me, 15 of the 16 players going directly into Round 2 were the ones who qualified by winning just one match in the qualifying rounds, while the other player going directly to Round 2 (Maciol, Group M) lost his first match and then won twice on the losers' side. The player who qualified in Group M by winning just one match, Sugihara Tadasu, is in Round 1. Maybe it has something to do with prior rankings.
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Yes , 6 to 7 matches for top player over 6 days to win event is really soft
Last weekend, Rita Chou won WPBA Soaring Eagles Masters over 5 days playing 15 matches and 183 racks :LOL:
 
Vahmurka

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Last year it was I think Ko Pin Chung to grab the trophy? This time it seems like Big Ko is going to move it to his side of the shelf.
 
Vahmurka

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AtLarge said:
So it was indeed 48 players (16 x 3) who qualified for the knock-out rounds. 32 of them (16 matches) play in Round 1 of the knock-outs today (Thursday). The winners go into Round 2 on Friday afternoon (there) with the other 16 players, who qualified directly for Round 2. The round of 16 players is on Friday evening, the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. So the winner of the tournament will play either 1 match or no matches on Thursday, 2 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday -- all races to 10 (unless they change that). Pretty soft!

Kind of odd to me, 15 of the 16 players going directly into Round 2 were the ones who qualified by winning just one match in the qualifying rounds, while the other player going directly to Round 2 (Maciol, Group M) lost his first match and then won twice on the losers' side. The player who qualified in Group M by winning just one match, Sugihara Tadasu, is in Round 1. Maybe it has something to do with prior rankings.
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That's Maldives! The showrunners are just kind and gentle to the players, letting them chill at the seaside as much as they could afford! :cool:
 
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In a 3½-hour match, Grabe won 10-9 by running out after Kazakis scratched on the break at hill/hill.

But that was far from the whole story. Grabe led by 5 games twice at 6-1 and 9-4. Then he scratched on the match-winning 10-ball at 9-4. Kazakis then won 5 games in a row, in one of which Grabe missed a pretty easy 5-ball in the game to win 10-6.

So congrats to Grabe, as this is probably his biggest win, including a nice $32,000 first-place prize.
 
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Good thing it was free to watch ... unfortunately it was not so fun with no shot clock. Every time watching players like Denis and Alex playing big match with no shot clock it looks like pool is the hardest pocket billiard game. Snooker and even piramid look like easy games after that ).
 
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