Does anyone have any knowledge of an "elite" player asking to be involved and rejected by the organizers...? The actual fact is that the event is held hostage to both those willing and their schedules. Of course the top 50 in the world haven't had a crack at it yet. However that shouldn't invalidate the efforts made by the first few.
...and you know this how...? Can not two same model tables be constructed to play the same...? ...or are just assuming zero effort will be made to do so...? Sounds like a bit of opinion spouted off like fact.
On the exact table Jayson played on...?.., no. Good on everyone involved to try and monetize the record setting effort. If they didn't, a year from now people on this forum would be mocking them for waiting too long. I wonder if the same thing happened to the 626 table. It would explain it's dismantling shortly after the record. However beyond that I struggle as to why another table could not be cut in the same fashion, placed in the same corner of the room and covered in the same type of cloth.
As far as money goes... Was there another thread that I missed that discussed what huge cash bounty, and guaranteed money was offered up...? For all we know they got bag of apples for walking in the door and pear for setting the record. Again, lots of opinion with no facts.
Evidently you did not watch and listen to all the videos while the attempts was made.
Since you like facts so much.... how about this:
Bobby Chamberlain said all along that John Schmidt's 626 was not the world record run.
Bobby said (several times on stream) very clearly that Babe Cranfield's 768 run was the world record.... that's fact. He said it any times.
Well, after Jayson ran 714.... all of a sudden Bobby accepted John's 626.... again, that is fact.
I know what I know and Evidently you don't.
I've received a few PM's asking me if I was ill toward Bobby or something. I told all of them:
Nope. I have no problem with him personally other than I don't like hypocrisy.
Do you like it when someone says one thing, but then does the opposite?
Me? I have absolutely nothing against Bobby and especially Jayson...., but I am a huge fan of honesty and integrity.
In the end, I'm grateful for John Schmidt and Jayson Shaw.
I just wish two things:
1. John would have got the same love and respect for breaking the 526 that Shaw got for the 714.
2. John's record would have been broken under different circumstances instead of a vengeance manner.