The 2nd Annual Bar Box Classic. $16,000 Added June 1-5th, 2022 Leisure Time Billiards & Sportsbar in E. Moline, Illinois.

[terryhanna]

Congratulations to Super Roberto Gomez he snapped off the 2nd Annual Bar Box Classic 8 Ball Division.
He had a great 9 match win streak from the one loss side to take the title.
Great event for Brian Groce 2nd place
Jesse Bowman 3rd
4th Gene Albrecht
5-6th Corey Deuel
5-6th Alex Pagulayan
7-8th Brandon Heldenbrand
7-8th Fedor Gorst
9-12th Jimmy Nosavan
9-12th Jamey Bowman
9-12th Alex Grell
9-12th Blake Baker

 

[terryhanna]

$10,000 Added 10 Ball division coverage all day today Saturday and tomorrow Sunday until we have a champion.
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Brackets https://www.facebook.com/PoolActionTV-318365238193574/photos/pcb.5823860590977317/5823856397644403

 

[AtLarge]

That 8-Ball final match between Gomez and Groce was odd. The last 4 breaks of the first set and the first 8 breaks of the second set were all unsuccessful (dry or fouled) -- 12 in a row. Then Groce had a B&R, the first one by either player after 14 games (across both sets) without one. After the B&R came 2 more unsuccessful breaks. So that made it 14 unsuccessful in a 15-game stretch.

 

[AtLarge]

That 8-Ball final match between Gomez and Groce was odd. The last 4 breaks of the first set and the first 8 breaks of the second set were all unsuccessful (dry or fouled) -- 12 in a row. Then Groce had a B&R, the first one by either player after 14 games (across both sets) without one. After the B&R came 2 more unsuccessful breaks. So that made it 14 unsuccessful in a 15-game stretch.

And one additional oddity -- in that string of 12 games without a successful break, one break was a miscue foul by Gomez that sent the cue ball straight into a pocket without touching the rack. So Groce then broke and, guess what -- dry. So we actually had 13 unsuccessful breaks in 12 consecutive games!

 

[terryhanna]

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!
Roberto Gomez snapped off both the 8 Ball and 10 Ball events at Leisure Time Billiards & Sportsbar in E. Moline, Illinois.

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10 Ball results

8 Ball Results

One Pocket Results
Due to time constraints Jesse Bowman and Fedor Gorst split 1st and 2nd
Alex Pagulayan and Corey Deuel finished 3-4th

 

[AtLarge]

Congratulations to Roberto Gomez for winning 2 of the 3 events.

But do events really have to end at such late hours? The 8-Ball event ended after 2 am local time. The finals in the One-Pocket event were not even played (the players split) because of "time constraints." I don't know at what time that occurred (or even if it was because of lateness). The finals of the 10-Ball event started at about 1:45 am. Given that it could have gone two sets, taking it to somewhere between 2:30 am and 5 am, I declined to watch. But, apparently, it went just 14 games instead of a possible 34, so it probably ended somewhere around 3 am.

This happens event after event, and it doesn't have to. Good planning can eliminate any need to play matches way into the next morning on any day of an event, not just the final day. Field size, starting times, race length, game rules, shot clocks, tournament management -- all of these factors can be controlled to produce reasonable assurance that matches will not run into the next day. In what other "sport" does anything like this happen regularly?

 

[WTD14]

I matched up with Gomez in 2nd round of the 10 ball. Such a monster. He played great all week.