Mosconi Cup Break?
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Not yet, and it won't be for a little while. Other events are being put together now (World Cup of Pool, World Pool Masters).
It's very unlikely that the break box will be used again, given the very low percentage of run-outs. The hard break was good for the looks, but as soon as the balls stopped it was a nightmare.
IMO, tapping the balls and creating this magic rack shit has killed any chance we have of bringing exciting pictures and videos of our game and therefore appeal to a younger audience.
All I wanted to shoot when I was a teenager was Archer, Bustamante, Strickland breaking hard with balls flying in the air to make people open wide eyes. Now I'm left shooting pictures of players slowly raising their butt and looking concerned with no emotion or effort transpiring... :boring2:
It's very unlikely that the break box will be used again, given the very low percentage of run-outs. The hard break was good for the looks, but as soon as the balls stopped it was a nightmare.
IMO, tapping the balls and creating this magic rack shit has killed any chance we have of bringing exciting pictures and videos of our game and therefore appeal to a younger audience.
All I wanted to shoot when I was a teenager was Archer, Bustamante, Strickland breaking hard with balls flying in the air to make people open wide eyes. Now I'm left shooting pictures of players slowly raising their butt and looking concerned with no emotion or effort transpiring... :boring2:
Well said, jpparmentier.
Pool has lost a little of its "eye-opening" break.
I too remember when the pool break was analogous to the tennis and ping pong serves, tee shot, etc.
You never knew what exciting result(s) would take place because things would happen so fast.
Now it seems we are relegated to watching a slow and non-eventful begin-of-game.
We might as well go back to using the mace and push at the balls.
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A. It's a relief that someone else knows that the magic rack is $HIT!!! :thumbup:
B. I too was inspired to play the game against the greatest players with a random notion of the break shot that got goose pimples raised!!! :thumbup:
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C. What is ever wrong with the golden break? After all it is a part of the official rules! :thumb up:
JP for President!!!
Zzzz. Come on JP...
You're telling me you can't possible turn this into a good photograph,
because of that magic rack on the table?
I guess SVB and Ko Pin Yi didn't get the memo
about how magic rack makes breaks more boring.
The break is just 10 or 11 percent of all the shots
you'll take in any game, at an absolute maximum.
Pool is doomed if our best chance of appealing to young players...
is to lure them in with a shot that happens 10% of the time,
and hope they fall in love with the other 90%.
Regardless of your personal feelings about the magic rack,
making pool 'exciting' with your photos is maybe not the right mindset.
It is not action-packed like tennis or basketball and never will be.
You just need to make it look *interesting*.
You're telling me you can't possible turn this into a good photograph,
because of that magic rack on the table?
I guess SVB and Ko Pin Yi didn't get the memo
about how magic rack makes breaks more boring.
The break is just 10 or 11 percent of all the shots
you'll take in any game, at an absolute maximum.
Pool is doomed if our best chance of appealing to young players...
is to lure them in with a shot that happens 10% of the time,
and hope they fall in love with the other 90%.
Regardless of your personal feelings about the magic rack,
making pool 'exciting' with your photos is maybe not the right mindset.
It is not action-packed like tennis or basketball and never will be.
You just need to make it look *interesting*.
Zzzz. Come on JP...
You're telling me you can't possible turn this into a good photograph,
because of that magic rack on the table?
I guess SVB and Ko Pin Yi didn't get the memo
about how magic rack makes breaks more boring.
The break is just 10 or 11 percent of all the shots
you'll take in any game, at an absolute maximum.
Pool is doomed if our best chance of appealing to young players...
is to lure them in with a shot that happens 10% of the time,
and hope they fall in love with the other 90%.
Regardless of your personal feelings about the magic rack,
making pool 'exciting' with your photos is maybe not the right mindset.
It is not action-packed like tennis or basketball and never will be.
You just need to make it look *interesting*.
Of course your points are very valid. But where would Tennis be as a sport if the ACE SHOT was deemed not fair or not a true reflection of who is the best player? :thumbup:
I know this is going off topic. Just saying tho... :thumbup: