The Legendary Pearl to Take On 14.1 Attempts
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My bad. Thanks for the clarification.
his high run afaik is 408.
Ruslan will be back real soon.
Numbers from Earl Strickland High Runs.
Notes:
1. The Facebook page says Earl ran 117 on Day 0, but it doesn't appear in the videos.
2. The Facebook page says the high run for Day 1 was 155, but the score keeper forgot to increment the rack counter, missing a rack, so the actual high run was 169.
Earl Strickland | Shane Van Boening | Ruslan Chinakhov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Earl's BPI was well affected by his slow start. On Day 1, he had 11 attempts that scored less than 10 balls. | Shane also had 11 attempts that scored less than 10 balls, but they were spread out over 5 days. | Ruslan had one attempt that scored less than 10 balls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. The Facebook page says Earl ran 117 on Day 0, but it doesn't appear in the videos.
2. The Facebook page says the high run for Day 1 was 155, but the score keeper forgot to increment the rack counter, missing a rack, so the actual high run was 169.
I believe Earl, he’s pure, unfiltered and I’ve never heard him embellish anything. His numbers today were solid. Let him get in his zone, catch that Earl gear-the numbers are pure too. Buckle up boys!!!!!
Why has the support members of this event had such a hard time keeping track of the scores, seems like not being able to keep an accurate count is a regularity with this event! How is anyone suppose to believe it if someone runs more than 626 balls, if the tracking of the ball count is so questionable???
Told you RFID balls and readers in the pockets.
Make that happen, we’ll have all the data.
Happy new year
Fatboy
Chinakhov’s average of 127 balls per inning for 10 consecutive innings has to be one of the most impressive 14.1 practice sessions ever recorded.
I would say if he ever really wants to go after Mosconi or Schmidt’s numbers, he’d have a legitimate shot at it.
Told you RFID balls and readers in the pockets.
Make that happen, we’ll have all the data.
Happy new year
Fatboy
the balls' spherical integrity would be questionable with a chip in there. a better solution is a top camera connected to a computer doing the counting.
i've thought about this for 9-ball actually, not for counting but for highlighting balls for the tv viewers. the computer identifies the next ball in rotation, highlights it for a moment (like the 3-ball would flash red right after the 2-ball has been pocketed) and thereby makes it easier to follow for the casual viewer. of course us pool fans would maybe dislike it but it would get more casual fans to catch on.
It’s all on video, so probably not too hard to figure out….
IMO both numbers need to be taken with a grain of salt -- absent any speck of corroboration.
They seem to be all about "he said" and either one supposedly happened in 1993 when he was extremely innocent of Straight Pool's nuances as clearly evidenced in the totally naive pattern play I repeatedly saw in-person only two years later in Grady's 1995 "Maine Event" in Portland, Maine.
Surely some 1993 contemporaneous witness to him raining these multi-century hundreds would have stepped forward and been quoted somewhere about either feat. Not even a photo of him smiling at the end of the arguably fantasy run.
I continue to admire his decades of exceptional skills at the rotation games and dazzling wins in those disciplines. And wish him success in all his present 14.1 ultra-high run attempts.
Arnaldo
So, he was pretty much human like the rest of us. I'm not a big fan when things don't go my way either
Then why the multiple high run corrections? It's not like 2 players scores are being kept track of. You don't even need to keep track if the balls being ran a rack except the last rack in which the player misses a shot. Completed racks are counted as 14 balls EVERY TIME + balls made in the last rack! It don't get any easier than that!!!
It's no different that when X Pro players claim in practice they've ran 20 racks+ playing 9 ball, but in competition they struggle to put a 4 pack together, and seldom at that! That's because BS ran into reality!!
Yeah, I get you. But it doesn’t really matter until someone hits their PB or threatens John’s 626. Then they can watch the video back and confirm everything. These guys are giving their time to sit there and rack balls hour after hour. I think we can forgive them missing the scoreboard every now and then.
If accuracy is a problem with lower high runs, then it's really questionable with higher runs. If they can't keep track accurately, then they need to quit this pursuit of a high run exhibition!!