Race to 11....3 hrs and 26 minutes...............
New Pro 9 Ball World Record
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If it went hill - hill that's almost 10 minutes per game. Pro sports games don't take that long. Crazy man.
I have a nickname for that dude that lost, "The Glacier".
The last game took just over 30 minutes! WTF??!!
Both taking forever to pull the trigger on several shots....
Pretty darn slow, but I'd guess the record is more like 5 hours at pro level for a race to 11. The Darren Appleton vs Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz match at the International 9-ball earlier this autumn took 3:40, including one instance in which Appleton took nearly six minutes on a single shot.
It was a close match with some messed-up patterns. Ko normally isn't that slow but the layouts combined with the pace of Kid Glacier brought it to a near stand-still. Look up shot-clock and you'll find the video of this match. Brutal.
I would have got a ref or forfeited AND caused a scene.
You're watching the possible final nail in pools coffin. It's unbearable. I've seen my share of slow racks, especially at 8 ball and sometimes in snooker, but 9 ball? No, nothing like this, especially not at this level. I once watched a 4.5 hour match, best of 5 (race to 3) in snooker, but that I could forgive, because they were amateurs who could barely pocket a hanger. At the professional level, this kind of slow play should be not only frowned upon, but outright sanctioned. If you were in a match like this, your next match should automatically be on a 40 second shot clock. No exceptions or excuses or extensions. The shot clock should in fact be automatically deployed at a set point, for instance at the 2 hour and 30 minute mark, maybe even sooner, possibly at any point at the referees discretion, if a referee is present.
No level of play is "worth" this kind of agony. Don't care if it's a 500 ball straight pool run. If you can't think fast enough to keep, at the very least a 35 second shot average (thats a pretty low bar, if you ask me, probably should be in the 25 range for a pro), then you're not right for the sport and should find something else to do, IMO. Especially at 9 ball, I mean, come on, even a chimp can think faster than that. It's rotation folks, your (good/solid) options are very limited for the most part.
No level of play is "worth" this kind of agony. Don't care if it's a 500 ball straight pool run. If you can't think fast enough to keep, at the very least a 35 second shot average (thats a pretty low bar, if you ask me, probably should be in the 25 range for a pro), then you're not right for the sport and should find something else to do, IMO. Especially at 9 ball, I mean, come on, even a chimp can think faster than that. It's rotation folks, your (good/solid) options are very limited for the most part.
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Wow!
Can't wait to not watch that...
Can't wait to not watch that...
Nineteen minutes from the break shot to completion of that first game! I didn't need to watch any more. No question that implementation of a shot clock (40 seconds with one extension per rack works great) is needed in events like this.
The WPA is quick to change the rules and some promoters will try gimmicks like changing the color of the balls, but no one is paying attention to more serious issues like this that makes watching a match excruciating!
If that happened under my watch I put someone with a watch with a second hand in a chair by the table and told them to give each player 30 seconds to shoot or call a foul on them. You'd be surprised how quickly the match sped up! And the level of play was just as good if not better.
P.S. Earl used to gobble up slow players like this. He gave them a long time to think about their mistakes. He would run five or six racks in less time then it took these guys to make three balls! REALLY!!
After that they were paralyzed if they even got to the table. I watched him execute a lot of guys with his rapid fire style.
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