You do. Otherwise you wouldn't be telling us you reject being held to account for what you have done.
Also, you have chosen this "job". You elected to be Bobby's mouthpiece here so deal with it.
SVB to Kick Off High Run Attempts
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Also, you have chosen this "job". You elected to be Bobby's mouthpiece here so deal with it.
It's all good Freddie. Shane told me he offered to play him 4 years ago race to 4 for 10k and the offer was declined.Shane didn't understand why he was declined.
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I’ve “dealt” with you for over 20 years and have been more than happy with the outcome ;-)
But let’s talk about the 14.1. I believe today is SVB’ last scheduled day, though he may return for more attempts later.
2PM EST start time.
Lou Figueroa
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Dammit. I really knew better than to click this thread. But I did it anyways.
It's like AZB herpes.
It's like AZB herpes.
I have to admit, the fact that SVB beat is high run in 3ish days of attempts certainly lends credence to the theory that the high runs of many top players are what they are because they couldn't be bothered to try to beat them. I don't know where the ceiling is for these guys though. It will be fascinating to see Ruslan try the challenge and see how he compares. I think I heard 14.1 is one of his favorite games.
The super easy table helps I think. Shane is amazingly good at keeping his cue ball tight. Which is really really good when you need extra room to work the cue ball.
I am enjoying watching him run balls because of his cue ball. One can really learn a lot by observing how he moves the cue ball.
Also he does an excellent job of breaking up clusters and moving trouble balls just enough to make the pattern work out. He very rarely has to manufacture a break ball and is very very good at getting to ideal break position.
Easy table helps but Shane is the master who works it as a master should.
And his name is John Schmidt
I don't like the way he breaks the rack with cueball going wild to end of table and back down...he had a few runs end because of it.
Or, what's the over/under for highest run achieved in the rest of this year? I'm going with 525.5. The whole run has to be in 2021 in case someone is shooting on New Year's Eve.
It does help, though I’d argue that the 760 cloth and template rack are playing a bigger role. I think those two things alone would give us the same results if the pockets were 4.75”. Crucially, he’s getting a lot of really open racks.
Every time JB cases gets involved in a thread it's nothing but arguing and insults.
Wish he would just stick to making cases.
I’m not so sure about the cloth.
SVB has said he’s still not used to it. When he started it had about 40 hours of play, so maybe it needs a little more break in time.
Also wanted to mention we had over 18,000 viewers a couple of nights ago, So inspite of the negativity from a small number of malcontents here a lot of people are enjoying the event sans the drama here : -)
Lou Figueroa
Hi Bob! I hope you have been wellOr, what's the over/under for highest run achieved in the rest of this year? I'm going with 525.5. The whole run has to be in 2021 in case someone is shooting on New Year's Eve.
That was a bad guess at a opening line on if someone reaches 623 during this effort with this table. I’m really excited to see this happening. I always enjoyed the DCC 14.1 and followed almost every year day by day.
I thought putting a opening line up for small sweat bets would be interesting, maybe 500 should be the opening line-a line where 50% think will go over and 50% think it goes under.
The idea wasn’t me looking for a bet, the idea was for discussion and if people can find a real good opening number then it gets interesting. It’s a great year for 14.1 & I’m 100% behind this.
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Fatboy
PS: Bob, thanks for all you have done for pool and our history. That’s OT here but we don’t talk often and I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate and will continue to everything you do/ it’s important work and you do it well and with honor and integrity. I respect that 1000%. Fatboy Approved. I’m being humble and most sincere saying this. Thank you
18,000, that’s amazing. Is that cumulative? Or concurrent? Either way is great. I’m sure many people are like me and are checking in regularly.
Maybe there is an opportunity for extension event in the future. High run contest per Fargo category. High run under 750, 700, 650 and so on.
I was interested in those total viewer numbers as well. When I checked into the live stream there were generally 100-200 viewers. Sometimes it would dip down to 75, and sometimes it would peak around 500 viewers, and i think i saw 700 once.
I looked it up and found that Facebook counts a view if someone watches the video for 3 seconds.
So if you look at the Facebook page and see the live stream moving, it will count as a view after 3 seconds. According to the analytics guys, if you go back in 5 minutes and see how SVB is doing now, it will add another view. Every 'start video playing' whether it's autostart or not, will trigger a view increment in 3 seconds.
An example they gave is of a video that 'reached' 4000 people, had 1300 'non-unique people' view it for 3 seconds, and 560 non-unique people view it for more than 10 seconds. The average view time was only 26 seconds.
So one person who checked in periodically over the course of the day could have been responsible for 500 of those views.
Facebook doesn't 'freely' provide engagement data, like how many different people viewed this video, or the median and average viewing times.
I don't know if 'likes' are more meaningful. They do actually require that you click something so maybe they do mean something. Of the three SVB videos from yesterday, there were 43 likes, 65 likes, and SVB's 308 had 101 likes.
Among that audience were some VERY big name people in our pool world.
It has the attention of some very accomplished players and important people in pool. Very impressive stuff.
Can’t say more as I respect their privacy.
All good stuff so far and I see nothing but good things happening. Would be nice for a change for a happier ending to anything in pool.
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Fatboy
It has the attention of some very accomplished players and important people in pool. Very impressive stuff.
Can’t say more as I respect their privacy.
All good stuff so far and I see nothing but good things happening. Would be nice for a change for a happier ending to anything in pool.
Best
Fatboy
Really, I can count several threads in the past few days that I am involved in that contain no insults or arguing.
I think you need to be fair and understand that when I argue I have reasons and I lay them out.
I also have refrained from insults and I think that the only time in this thread that I have directly insulted anyone was in response to Bobby calling John Schmidt a chickenshit.
They are free to start a new thread and apologize to John Schmidt, recognize his record as both verified and official and then we can all move on.
They will have to fade some commentary by Harriman knocking then for accepting John's run but no one cares about what Danny thinks at this point imo.
Agreed, more spin.