My DCC adventure (loooong)
- Thread starter Roy Steffensen
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I couldn't sleep (it's way past midnight here in Norway now) so I went back to read some old threads.
I thought this thread was worth a bump for those who haven't decided if they are going to DCC or not.
I also wanted to bump it just in case anyone who is part of the DCC Crew can read the qouted text I put in red and bold. That would make the DCC a LOT better
Looking forward to meet you guys again
I thought this thread was worth a bump for those who haven't decided if they are going to DCC or not.
I also wanted to bump it just in case anyone who is part of the DCC Crew can read the qouted text I put in red and bold. That would make the DCC a LOT better
Looking forward to meet you guys again
I really enjoyed my stay at the Derby City Classic. I met a lot of nice, friendly and funny people, and it was definitely worth going. It's expensive to travel all the way from Norway just for a pool tournament, but I can't figure out a better way to spend a holiday-week so I will probably join the DCC more than once in the future.
As for the organizing of the tournament I can't understand why there are so many problems with scheduling matches, but I know they are working on it, so I will leave that for now. Another thing I do not understand is why the tournament director doesn't provide the players and spectators information during the tournaments, like brackets and results.
If they had printed out the draw for each round, and the results, and put them up on a wall for everyone to see, that would probably have been one of the most visited places at the venue. Players and fans would love to check results.
For example, I watched Adam Smith warming up before one of his one-pocket matches and I really liked his attitude, way of behaving, shots etc, and I would love to be able to walk downstairs, look at the results from the previous rounds to see he whom he had played. Now I could only get that information by either asking him or ask the tournament director. That is bad service for the other players, and especially to the fans that pays money to watch this tournament. They should be able to get that information very easily.
Anyway, it was all a great experience for me, I loved being in America for the first time, and even though the Europeans failed to win the prestigious 9-ball title for the first time in 4 years, they put up a good fight. Shane Van Boening keeps on with impressing me with his game, and the scary part is that the best is probably yet to come from this young man. He finally secured a win for America in this event, the first since 2003 when Shannon Daulton won. Since then Efren has won once, Ralf Souquet three times and Niels Feijen once. Ralf's consistently being at the top at the 9-ball division is almost similar to Efren's dominance in the one-pocket division, imo.
Luckily the Team USA doesn't consist of 5 Shane, but only 1, so I am not afraid that Team Europe will lose in the Mosconi Cup in 2009 either.
This kind of post needs to be forwarded to Greg Sullivan.
You have lots of good ideas, especially for a European. :grin:
JoeyA
Roy's sleeping. It's after 3:00 am in Norway but I think he is going for the whole week.
JoeyA
