US Open Live Scoring on AZBilliards

Monday 7PM abut to kick off

The 7PM round will begin shortly. We are setting up the live scoring page now and will be ready when they kick off if I don't fall asleep. Could not shut the old brain off last night and did not doze off until 6:30 AM.
 
Just wondering what the hold up is on the Stevie Moore/John Kuchner match? Others have played twice already in that bracket?


Never mind! I see they are playing right now.
 
did CJ Wiley get the absolute WORST draw in the tournament!!?!?

He loses to Tony Robles in the first round, I don't know the guy who he plays first in the losers side, but the winner of that match has to play Jeremy Jones.

In my opinion, out of the notable big name players, he was stuck with by far the worst draw in the tournament. That's a toughy.
 
enzo said:
when the prize money for the events gets to a halfway reasonable level, then i may start to care.

has anybody ever thought about the fact that if the prize money were what it should be, that the "best players" may be a lot different that what they currently are? just a thought.

i always laugh at the fact that if i got say 3 tables, put them in a room, and put up say 2000 i could get all the best players from my state (and probably the ones around it) to show up for a tournament. do people know how pitiful that is??
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Some depression kicking in? You know there are lots of sports where the prize money is worse than pool or pretty much non-existent.

This is kind of a shitty post from you in this thread. Here we are celebrating the fact that two people are sitting on hard bleachers for 10 hours a day to bring us the scores so we can follow OUR heroes in the game.

Yeah, we all play the "what if" game and like to fantasize about how pool would be different if there were "real money" in it. Here is one way it would different, try getting an hour with Tiger Woods. Now try getting an hour with Johnny Archer.

The silver lining to pool not being a super-sport is that we fans have much better access to the professionals. Knowing what they go through to get to that level I wish that they were playing for more money but still they are "PLAYING" for money. In other words they are not chained to a desk and droning away at a job they hate for a pitiful salary. They are not consigned to kissing the boss's ass trying to get a raise. No, the only schedule that they have to keep is match times.

So in that sense they are a lot better off than most of us. Sure, if there was more money then we'd see the Snooker stars switching to pool and that would change the rankings. We'd see some carom stars as well. But that's about it. If you are thinking that with money as a motivator more people would take up the game and that would add more top players, you're right it would. However I think that when you consider low-income countries like China that the money currently in pool is quite real and worth caring about. With that in mind I have to ask why there aren't mass quantities of super-players from these countries showing up to snap off events?

Maybe it's because pool is actually hard to play.

Maybe it's because it does actually require a significant investment in time and personal effort to achieve world class skills.

And it's precisely because of that dedication that I care whenever the pros are out there playing, even if it's not for "real money".
 
Da Bank said:
did CJ Wiley get the absolute WORST draw in the tournament!!?!?

He loses to Tony Robles in the first round, I don't know the guy who he plays first in the losers side, but the winner of that match has to play Jeremy Jones.

In my opinion, out of the notable big name players, he was stuck with by far the worst draw in the tournament. That's a toughy.
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Maybe but I was kinda sick to see Tony Chohan and Chris Bartram matched up in the first round. Maybe they didn't travel far enough to get there. :-)

Here are two guys that have battled back and forth last year and played many times and they get the luck to draw each other out of the gate. What are the odds of that happening?
 
I like to request a small change to the live scoring if possible. Could you make some kind of a notation per table to indicate whether the match is a winner's or loser's bracket match? If not then that's cool too - thanks for doing it!!!
 
JB Cases said:
Maybe but I was kinda sick to see Tony Chohan and Chris Bartram matched up in the first round. Maybe they didn't travel far enough to get there. :-)

Here are two guys that have battled back and forth last year and played many times and they get the luck to draw each other out of the gate. What are the odds of that happening?
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Somewhere around 1 in 236
 
I would do it.

JB Cases said:
Some depression kicking in? You know there are lots of sports where the prize money is worse than pool or pretty much non-existent.

This is kind of a shitty post from you in this thread. Here we are celebrating the fact that two people are sitting on hard bleachers for 10 hours a day to bring us the scores so we can follow OUR heroes in the game.

Yeah, we all play the "what if" game and like to fantasize about how pool would be different if there were "real money" in it. Here is one way it would different, try getting an hour with Tiger Woods. Now try getting an hour with Johnny Archer.

The silver lining to pool not being a super-sport is that we fans have much better access to the professionals. Knowing what they go through to get to that level I wish that they were playing for more money but still they are "PLAYING" for money. In other words they are not chained to a desk and droning away at a job they hate for a pitiful salary. They are not consigned to kissing the boss's ass trying to get a raise. No, the only schedule that they have to keep is match times.

So in that sense they are a lot better off than most of us. Sure, if there was more money then we'd see the Snooker stars switching to pool and that would change the rankings. We'd see some carom stars as well. But that's about it. If you are thinking that with money as a motivator more people would take up the game and that would add more top players, you're right it would. However I think that when you consider low-income countries like China that the money currently in pool is quite real and worth caring about. With that in mind I have to ask why there aren't mass quantities of super-players from these countries showing up to snap off events?

Maybe it's because pool is actually hard to play.

Maybe it's because it does actually require a significant investment in time and personal effort to achieve world class skills.

And it's precisely because of that dedication that I care whenever the pros are out there playing, even if it's not for "real money".
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I would trade places with any pro player in a second just to play at the highest level.
 
BrandyWine said:
Bumpty Bump~
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WOW!
Chris Szuter whips up on Ralf Souquet.
I googled Chris and just realized he was a pool room owner.
I played Chris once upon a time.
Way to go Chris.
JoeyA
 
Finland's Markus Juva beat philipino Leonardo Andam ! Go Turtle ! Markus is also a member of this forum.
 
mjantti said:
Finland's Markus Juva beat philipino Leonardo Andam ! Go Turtle ! Markus is also a member of this forum.
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Lol, "Turtle" :D Wonder why he got that nickname :rolleyes:

Way to go Markus! You can go all the way!
 
Scmidt loses

John Schmidt loses to Runningen, 6-11, and Marcus Chamat sends Charlie Bryant to the loser's side, 11-10. Corey Deuel beats up on Bernando 'King Kong' Chavez, 11-5.
 
Jerry Forsyth said:
The 7PM round will begin shortly. We are setting up the live scoring page now and will be ready when they kick off if I don't fall asleep. Could not shut the old brain off last night and did not doze off until 6:30 AM.
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Sleep is for amatures!
 
Corteza and Chohan

When do Lee Van Corteza and Tony Chohan play? Who do you like?
JoeyA
 
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