Turning Stone

Spent the day there yesterday. Looked for Stu, but didn't see him.
We got there in time for the 10:00 round, a looser's side round, and I watched Dylan Spohr play a few times throughout the day, until he finally lost against Erik Hjorleifson in the 8:00pm round. He seemed to get a little down on himself and rushed a few shots, then couldn't quite catch back up. Erik played great though, and earned that win.

The young guns were doing well, a 16 year old named Jake Jackson won his first four matches, then went on to face Jason Shaw in the 8:00pm round, where he lost. The Vaughn brothers went deep too.

To support what Garczar said, it's definitely not what it's been in prior years. The tournament did take a hiatus, and there wasn't anything in September last year, so maybe it needs to get back on it's feet a bit. But that said, there were even less vendors present. The Joss booth, a staple in prior years, was not there. There were way more league players, and less big name pros than I remember. Both Jason and Moritz are the top two, and only 9 of the field of 128 have Fargos over 750. Calling it a Pro/Am is actually quite accurate given that about half the field has a Fargo under 600.

I did see a lot of players inspecting the rack, and asking for adjustments. Jason seemed to be doing that the most. I thought Mike Zuglan stopped that a couple years ago, but maybe not. I did see plenty of other players never inspect the rack, or just take a quick look to see how they wanted to break it. They use the standard Diamond supplied rack, and those can be part of the problem.

On another topic, general trip observations, we ate lunch at the snack bar, which was good, and way less expensive than the food court downstairs. We had a good dinner in the tavern too. I played a couple sessions of craps and won $125, then $75, so that paid for the day.

Looking forward to the winner's side Jason/Moritz match today, and I think we'll probably see those same two in the finals as well.
 
Rickhem said:
Spent the day there yesterday. Looked for Stu, but didn't see him.
We got there in time for the 10:00 round, a looser's side round, and I watched Dylan Spohr play a few times throughout the day, until he finally lost against Erik Hjorleifson in the 8:00pm round. He seemed to get a little down on himself and rushed a few shots, then couldn't quite catch back up. Erik played great though, and earned that win.

The young guns were doing well, a 16 year old named Jake Jackson won his first four matches, then went on to face Jason Shaw in the 8:00pm round, where he lost. The Vaughn brothers went deep too.

To support what Garczar said, it's definitely not what it's been in prior years. The tournament did take a hiatus, and there wasn't anything in September last year, so maybe it needs to get back on it's feet a bit. But that said, there were even less vendors present. The Joss booth, a staple in prior years, was not there. There were way more league players, and less big name pros than I remember. Both Jason and Moritz are the top two, and only 9 of the field of 128 have Fargos over 750. Calling it a Pro/Am is actually quite accurate given that about half the field has a Fargo under 600.

I did see a lot of players inspecting the rack, and asking for adjustments. Jason seemed to be doing that the most. I thought Mike Zuglan stopped that a couple years ago, but maybe not. I did see plenty of other players never inspect the rack, or just take a quick look to see how they wanted to break it. They use the standard Diamond supplied rack, and those can be part of the problem.

On another topic, general trip observations, we ate lunch at the snack bar, which was good, and way less expensive than the food court downstairs. We had a good dinner in the tavern too. I played a couple sessions of craps and won $125, then $75, so that paid for the day.

Looking forward to the winner's side Jason/Moritz match today, and I think we'll probably see those same two in the finals as well.
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A guy Shaw was playing yesterday did a lot of racking for Shaw and was almost obsessing over it, no doubt nervous, and then Shaw giving the racks very careful inspection and suggestions. LOL, then when he'd apparently had enough input and had it the way he wanted it, he'd give a little wave like that's as good as it will get and off he went to break (and that's just reading into it with a little bias, but boy, that poor guy he was playing looked really nervous and took forever to rack 'em).
 
jeephawk said:
A guy Shaw was playing yesterday did a lot of racking for Shaw and was almost obsessing over it, no doubt nervous, and then Shaw giving the racks very careful inspection and suggestions. LOL, then when he'd apparently had enough input and had it the way he wanted it, he'd give a little wave like that's as good as it will get and off he went to break (and that's just reading into it with a little bias, but boy, that poor guy he was playing looked really nervous and took forever to rack 'em).
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Jason played a guy named Denys Zbikowski in the 2:00pm round. We watched that, as it was almost next to the table where Moritz was playing Grayson Vaughn, and we could watch both. That might be what you're talking about, but Jason was also the same way with the 16 year old at 8:00pm. Both Jason and Moritz won those matches 9-1, and both dominated in both matches. Have to say, none of the racking discussions seemed contentious, and lots were having difficulty giving a good, tight rack, and people playing Jason are racking way more often anyway. I also thought people seemed nervous, and played tighter against these top two guys, than in their other matches.
 
Rickhem said:
Jason played a guy named Denys Zbikowski in the 2:00pm round. We watched that, as it was almost next to the table where Moritz was playing Grayson Vaughn, and we could watch both. That might be what you're talking about, but Jason was also the same way with the 16 year old at 8:00pm. Both Jason and Moritz won those matches 9-1, and both dominated in both matches. Have to say, none of the racking discussions seemed contentious, and lots were having difficulty giving a good, tight rack, and people playing Jason are racking way more often anyway. I also thought people seemed nervous, and played tighter against these top two guys, than in their other matches.
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Yep, that's the one - didn't seem contentious at all, just seemed to take along time to get them racked.

Seems pretty smooth this morning.
 
Same old crap at every TS. Shaw doing his normal bs routine.

The best is the lousy commentators who are acting like this perfectly acceptable and seen at every event. Not.


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The 5th rack Shaw didn't even want to leave the table. Wanted to keep trying to delay Moritz's break, even after he finally came over for the first time and excepted it.

Culhane is as terrible as always on the mic.
 
spartan said:
Why is Al not Youtubing it ? YT better than FB
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He mentioned sometime ago that he had some issues with YouTube. I believe (can't remember exactly) that YouTube didn't want to pay him for views because he runs commercials. Maybe someone can remember/knows the exact reason.

BTW, tuned in to the Jayson/Moritz match and saw Jayson inspecting the racks for about a minute then asking for a re-rack. I immediately signed off because I wasn't going to put myself through that torture after seeing it many times before.
 
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