Predator Events format change
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I really hate the shootout. It's an expanded coin flip. The shootout should be a once through sequence of progressive difficulty shots. Which actually should be part of a qualification round to determine if the player even belongs in play.
This is progress.
Races to seven in Stage 1 means that the elite won't have to fade the shootout very often, setting the stage for the cream to rise more easily to the top.
This also means that the Stage 2 matches that determine the winner will not go to a shootout very often. I think that the biggest problem with the shootout was just how many there were. Who will ever forget the Kazakis win in Wisconsin in which he won four different shootouts in his four Stage 2 matches?
I like these changes.
Races to seven in Stage 1 means that the elite won't have to fade the shootout very often, setting the stage for the cream to rise more easily to the top.
This also means that the Stage 2 matches that determine the winner will not go to a shootout very often. I think that the biggest problem with the shootout was just how many there were. Who will ever forget the Kazakis win in Wisconsin in which he won four different shootouts in his four Stage 2 matches?
I like these changes.
CanadianGuy
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I would like to see the Chinese 8 Ball format, set time limit i.e. 2 hrs, whomever is leading wins, no shot clock, ref can call a foul for stalling (would only ever potentially happen late in a match)
this has worked surprisingly well over there
this has worked surprisingly well over there
God lets hope not. The only reason that rule is in effect because those matches can take forever. You really want 2hr 9b/10b matches??
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Because it is dumb. Because it allows for luck and chance to have way more influence on who wins largely as a result of who wins a single coin toss. And if they are re-lagging for who breaks in that single game sudden death playoff instead of using a coin toss then it allows for a stupid shot like a lag shot, and only a single one of them at that, to have way too much influence on who wins. Because it is stupid. Because it doesn't allow each person to have a legitimate chance to be able to control their own destiny. Because it is asinine. Because it cheapens things even more, and very often lacks excitement and is anticlimactic. Etc.
Other than just flipping a coin a single time as a decider for who wins a match, I literally can't think of a worse tiebreaker playoff format than a race to one. It is beyond me how people can prefer a coin toss or a lag to often decide who wins rather than letting a minimum of four modified spot shots, or literally anything else for that matter, decide who wins. It is beyond me how people will cry about races to four, and then those same idiots call for a race to one decider game and are so stupid they don't see the irony and inconsistency there. It is beyond me why people would want to introduce even more luck into the game.
If you don't find a minimum of four modified spot shots (and often more) to be good enough to decide a winner in a tie breaking situation, then you damn sure shouldn't be wanting a coin flip or a lag or literally a race to one be what determines the winner. Use your damn heads people.
Seriously, a race to one to decide who wins is the most retarded idea in the history of man.
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I believe that the shootout is the main test of mental stamina in pool. I have seen many of the top pros complain about using the shootout as the decider and I question their mental stamina.
In Trapshooting you shoot a 4.25 inch diameter clay disk traveling at 43 mph in a 34 degree angle where the target comes out at an unknown angle and you shoot each round of 25 from 5 different posts where each post presents a different look at the target. To win the World championship you have to shoot 200 straight in the championship event and then in the shootoff it usually runs another 500 to 1,000 targets before you get a winner.
So to the pro pool players I would say, stop complaining and just shoot. Needless to say, I love the shootouts
In Trapshooting you shoot a 4.25 inch diameter clay disk traveling at 43 mph in a 34 degree angle where the target comes out at an unknown angle and you shoot each round of 25 from 5 different posts where each post presents a different look at the target. To win the World championship you have to shoot 200 straight in the championship event and then in the shootoff it usually runs another 500 to 1,000 targets before you get a winner.
So to the pro pool players I would say, stop complaining and just shoot. Needless to say, I love the shootouts
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In stage 2 if the set score is tied 1-1 and the 3rd match score is tied at 3-3 they don't finish the set and go to a circus shot (spot shot) challenge instead of finishing the race to 4 set?? That makes a lot of sense, why not just go to the circus shot challenge whenever the set score is tied at 3-3 instead of finishing the set?? (Oh-oh, I shouldn't have said that in a public place, Emily may see it and get ideas.)
That third set is also a a best of 7 (aka race-to-4) set.
It's just that a player has to win by two games (score of 4-0 or 4-1 or 4-2) for it to decide the match.
If the game score in it becomes 3-3, a shootout decides the match.
dendweller
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Seems to me the introduction of a penalty for stalling without a shot clock would just end up being controversial. Also, the idea of watching players get expert at running out the clock without getting penalized doesn't sound like much fun to watch.
, f the shootout it’s goofy , APA type pool