SVB to Kick Off High Run Attempts

gerryf said:
Yeah, i checked out some other sites as well. Pool sites like Roy's Basement actually had "likes" around 250. But it's not being streamed on Youtube, and with their '30 second' window for counting views, that would have given a different picture. And the Legends group is solely based on Facebook, so i'm thinking it's probably the best basis.

There doesn't seem to be an easily available metric to find out how many people are actually engaged, so you could tell if there's more engagement next week or the week after, and maybe it's worth running a 14.1 tournament.

What I've been doing is checking in periodically and logging the number of 'live' viewers during the afternoon, evening, and late evening live stream. For the 'archived' videos from earlier in the day, the views don't seem to mean as much.. You can see that the number of views of the Day1 videos pretty much stopped increasing during Day 2..

Next week, I'll check in on Chinakhov and others and see if there's a growing livestream audience or if it's the same hard-core 14.1 community that just checks in multiple times during the live stream.
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I'm passing along what the tech guys say, but I will clarify that while I heard "viewers," it is "views." Sorry for the confusion, my bad.

And I do believe there are plans for a YouTube channel.

BTW, SVB has started.

Lou Figueroa
 
His end patterns are looking a little rough to start the day, but he's powering through it so far.
 
Well crap, I guess there is no way to ignore or block a thread in this forum software. Ok I will go with willpower. My least effective option. I have however put a few users on block so that should help me a little. I can do this........ I have said everything that needs to be said on this that is relevant about the promoter and his public relations guy. A few things have happened in the background that have made me very happy as a result of this thread. You know who you are and THANK YOU again.

Good luck to all the players. And, despite my complete and utter disdain for him, I wish to offer SINCERE well wishes for Bobby for this endeavor and hope he gets everything out of it that he wishes for it to produce for him. The players participating are doing so with only the love of the game in mind and their personal quest to put up big numbers and perhaps set a new world record.

John Schmidt, if you read this, I have your back exactly as I stated above. We don't see eye to politically but as a fan and a friend, I respect all that you have done for the game and your accomplishments. Obviously, I don't expect that ANYTHING will come of it but on the off chance that it does, you can expect me to honor what I said and back you. I won't be carrying on any conversation about it here so any interested parties can contact me privately to make arrangements if need be.

Enjoy the show.
 
How about putting the sponsor logos (in the upper right corner) on a slower rotation. That thing changing about every 7 seconds gets annoying. Is there any evidence from the advertising world that a frequent rotation like that is better from a sales standpoint than a slower rotation?
 
JB Cases said:
... The players participating are doing so with only the love of the game in mind and their personal quest to put up big numbers and perhaps set a new world record. ...
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Perhaps not "only." Bobby has indicated that the prize money available is quite large.
 
AtLarge said:
How about putting the sponsor logos (in the upper right corner) on a slower rotation. That thing changing about every 7 seconds gets annoying. Is there any evidence from the advertising world that a frequent rotation like that is better from a sales standpoint than a slower rotation?
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Seven seconds is about right from what I recall about the attention span of the average viewer nowadays.

Lou Figueroa
I think goldfish
have us beat
 
Geez that one was brutal. Does his Thorsten break and it heads towards the corner, but ends up hitting the rail and spinning 2 rails into the corner where the balls are racked.
 
BeiberLvr said:
Geez that one was brutal. Does his Thorsten break and it heads towards the corner, but ends up hitting the rail and spinning 2 rails into the corner where the balls are racked.
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I'm far from an expert in 14.1, but since this tactic cost him a few nice runs already, I think someone with SvB's ball moving skills should not rely on such a difficult and unpredictable shot to split the balls
 
Curious situation in a rack during one of Shane’s 100+ ball run. They’re using the Perma-Rack, which will have no rack interference. So Shane is able to use this break ball or any break ball below the rack within 3” or so to the rack. The normal rules of straight pool with a rack dictates that if the 15th ball interferes with the rack, then upon reracking, that ball goes to the head spot. But with the Perma-Rack, we don’t have such a challenge on a leave like this.

I say it’s curious because if we were using a rack, I have proposed on Facebook’s straight pool page that we can use a ball marker and forgo the “interfering with the rack.”. We’d only worry if the 15th ball actually interferes with balls. It’s a big and important rule mod suggestion, and it makes sense to me given the different racks we have today and given that we have things like Perma-Rack or ball markers.

What are your all thoughts?
 

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Starting the evening session rather slowly -- with a zero.


Edit -- apparently that was just after a timeout. The dinner break started later.
 
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Cornerman said:
... What are your all thoughts?
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Perhaps they should have a triangle of normal (I know there is no "standard" for these) size to place over the Perma-Rack to determine whether a ball "interferes." Otherwise, you are really changing the rules prematurely (by using only the other object balls).
 
Cornerman said:
Curious situation in a rack during one of Shane’s 100+ ball run. They’re using the Perma-Rack, which will have no rack interference. So Shane is able to use this break ball or any break ball below the rack within 3” or so to the rack. The normal rules of straight pool with a rack dictates that if the 15th ball interferes with the rack, then upon reracking, that ball goes to the head spot. But with the Perma-Rack, we don’t have such a challenge on a leave like this.

I say it’s curious because if we were using a rack, I have proposed on Facebook’s straight pool page that we can use a ball marker and forgo the “interfering with the rack.”. We’d only worry if the 15th ball actually interferes with balls. It’s a big and important rule mod suggestion, and it makes sense to me given the different racks we have today and given that we have things like Perma-Rack or ball markers.

What are your all thoughts?
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I think that the rules should follow the traditional rules completely. They could use a wooden rack to show that the break ball is not touching and still use the perma-rack as well.
 
Cornerman said:
Curious situation in a rack during one of Shane’s 100+ ball run. They’re using the Perma-Rack, which will have no rack interference. So Shane is able to use this break ball or any break ball below the rack within 3” or so to the rack. The normal rules of straight pool with a rack dictates that if the 15th ball interferes with the rack, then upon reracking, that ball goes to the head spot. But with the Perma-Rack, we don’t have such a challenge on a leave like this.

I say it’s curious because if we were using a rack, I have proposed on Facebook’s straight pool page that we can use a ball marker and forgo the “interfering with the rack.”. We’d only worry if the 15th ball actually interferes with balls. It’s a big and important rule mod suggestion, and it makes sense to me given the different racks we have today and given that we have things like Perma-Rack or ball markers.

What are your all thoughts?
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Of course marking and replacing should be allowed - it's already allowed in other situations, and given the variety of racks in use, the current rule isn't even consistent.

pj
chgo
 
AtLarge said:
Perhaps they should have a triangle of normal (I know there is no "standard" for these) size to place over the Perma-Rack to determine whether a ball "interferes." Otherwise, you are really changing the rules prematurely (by using only the other object balls).
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If this particular run had gone past 626, would it have counted? This break ball violated the basic rule.

I think that since there is no standard rack and that we have modern ballmarkers, time to reconsider the traditional rule.
 
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Patrick Johnson said:
Of course marking and replacing should be allowed - it's already allowed in other situations, and given the variety of racks in use, the current rule isn't even consistent.

pj
chgo
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Exactly... No documented distance off the racked balls to qualify the break ball, so why bother.
 
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