Happy new year to all on the AZB forum. To each and every poster here on the forum, thanks for making my 2005 forum experience a positive one.
Reflecting on 2005, it was an exciting year in pool, and the posts on this forum reflected our collective enthusiasm for a year that transformed our sport in many ways. We began the year marveling in Efren’s sheer brilliance at the Derby City Classic. Next, we reveled as Kelly Fisher became the third world snooker champion to win a WPBA event. In the summer, we were captivated by the emergence of a sixteen year old world champion named Wu. Not so long after that, we watched three magnificent Filipinos dominate the US Open. Next, we watched Mike Sigel, one of the all-time greatest, begin his comeback bid, kicking off a new tour called the IPT in a match against fellow hall of famer Loree Jon Jones. Finally, just a few weeks ago, we saw the first major event of the IPT tour, an eight ball event, and we were awed by the enormous possibilities brought on by the formation of this new, lucrative, tour. At the IPT eight ball event, Efren saw to it that we’d finish 2005 reveling in his sheer brilliance, just as we had begun it. What a year in pool it was that we shared together here on the forum!
Here’s hoping that 2006 will bring all of you good health, good times, good fortune, and, of course, good pool. As for 2005, thanks for the memories.
Reflecting on 2005, it was an exciting year in pool, and the posts on this forum reflected our collective enthusiasm for a year that transformed our sport in many ways. We began the year marveling in Efren’s sheer brilliance at the Derby City Classic. Next, we reveled as Kelly Fisher became the third world snooker champion to win a WPBA event. In the summer, we were captivated by the emergence of a sixteen year old world champion named Wu. Not so long after that, we watched three magnificent Filipinos dominate the US Open. Next, we watched Mike Sigel, one of the all-time greatest, begin his comeback bid, kicking off a new tour called the IPT in a match against fellow hall of famer Loree Jon Jones. Finally, just a few weeks ago, we saw the first major event of the IPT tour, an eight ball event, and we were awed by the enormous possibilities brought on by the formation of this new, lucrative, tour. At the IPT eight ball event, Efren saw to it that we’d finish 2005 reveling in his sheer brilliance, just as we had begun it. What a year in pool it was that we shared together here on the forum!
Here’s hoping that 2006 will bring all of you good health, good times, good fortune, and, of course, good pool. As for 2005, thanks for the memories.
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