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SJM at the 2023 Derby City Catastrophe
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My sense of things is that they view the Bigfoot as being a core event with a small field. It's the only event with an announcer on the mike for the length of every match. It has something I've never heard before in my many years around the game, and that's sponsorship announcements on the mike mid-match. Between racks is a most unusual time for sponsorship announcements.
Disagree. SVB lost to a player whose Fargo was 50 points lower and Shaw lost to a player whose Fargo was 35 points lower. Double hill or not, these are very big upsets.
Yes, Filler drawing Pagulayan over and over was unusual.
i'd rather have a root-canal with a butter knife than watch that shit.
Gotta be more interesting than the Banks Kennel Club Masters.
I agree both upsets based on Fargo for sure. I just give more credit to the 2 players playing very well and above their current Fargo which I believed happened here. I didn't see the SVB match but read all the praise after the match and it wasn't for SVB, so I could be off, way off actually.
Cheers,
Agreed, perhaps an overstatement, but I've never been asked to work a 25 hour day in my life like Shane, who played pool at the Derby from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. It seems like abuse.
sometimes changes to a player's life, approach or training regimen can make them play better than their fargo. regarding duong, i'm certain his match against shane was no one-off. the match before he beat the world 10-ball champion wojciech szewczyk 11-1. that was the best performance of the tournament. he performed like a 820 fargo player, almost complete in all aspects.
Yeah if you got insomnia. No one would sit and watch rotation much less 'til the last ball' version. Think we can file this in the 'ain't happening,ever' folder.
There is a back way around the train crossing!
It's the Derby -- smaller pockets on all tables obviously was a problem. Smaller pockets on the TV table was NOT a problem, and probably made those featured matches more interesting -- and more salable for Pat. I would to guess without asking them, that both Greg Sullivan and Pat Fleming, as well as the majority of Accustats subscribers, and spectators there, liked it that way. Now, did they like that matches went deep into the night/next morning? Not so much. But everyone that matters seems to agree that the smaller pockets throughout the tournament floor, was indeed a problem (along with other issues such as efficiency of table scheduling). I'm not hearing anyone say that the TV table was too tight -- except maybe you indirectly.
Too bad. It's a good game and besides 9 and 10 ball usually go to the last ball.Yeah if you got insomnia. No one would sit and watch rotation much less 'til the last ball' version. Think we can file this in the 'ain't happening,ever' folder.
But here's the context:
10 footer has too much area for 10 ball. 15 balls would help fill that.
No points and last ball make it an easy to spectate shooting/strategy game.
I don't think last ball has to be any duller than pool schemes currently in play. And it leaves in all the pool.
You didn’t answer my question:
lfigueroa said:
In what other sport do they change the specs like that?
Smaller holes for the final round of golf? Smaller hoops, nets, goal posts? Maybe change the lines for center court at Wimbledon?
Lou Figueroa
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in golf they change the types of grass, the length and width of fairways, greens speed, pin locations. they are always adjusting the speed of the greens by grass length, through watering or mowing
We’ll, ya, sure — I think they just made a lot of mods at Augusta.
But do they make the hole smaller the last round of the Masters?
Lou Figueroa
I can only speak for this pool fan, but I am not particularly interested in 10 foot tables one way or another. There are none that I know of within 100 miles of me or anyone I know, so I really could care less. No pool room is gonna devote space to larger tables either...total non starter. Less tables per square foot, no way that sounds profitable. In the end, I'm only interested in a similar playing surface to what is commonly available to 99.9% of people who play pool. I bet I'm not alone in that sentiment.
Most sports have clearly defined specs -- pool not so much. I just looked at WPA and it says 4-1/2" to 4-5/8" corner pockets under their :
"Recommended Equipment Specifications"
I added the quotation marks -- but the word "recommended" is right there in the heading.It also says, "At its sole discretion, the World Pool-Billiard Association can sanction tournaments on tables not in compliance with these specifications."