Evening session to begin soon. The winners side 6:00 matches are:
Schmidt vs Immonen
Souquet vs Hohmann
Dechaine vs Ortmann
Chavez vs Feijen
Deuel vs Hundal
Harriman vs Bustamante
Engert vs Jentsch
Babica vs VanDenBerg
The eight winners earn a spot in the last 16 single elimination stage, and the losers will need to win one more match win later this evening to get there.
In the afternoon losers bracket sessions, Ouschan beat Maidhof, Stepanov beat Daya, Lispky and Archer were both in the eighties when I left, and Barouty led Hunter by 75-45, and that's all I noticed.
To this point, there hasn't been a single 100 ball run today, with Deuel's 97 vs Lipsky the highest. The bar will surely be raised for the high run award this evening.
Form is starting to take shape. Immonen has probably shown the best form of anybody so far, with Feijen and VanDenBerg nearly as steady. Hohmann and Souquet look very dangerous, and their match should be something special. I sense that Schmidt is only just starting to find his form. Engert, Ortmann and Harriman are not in their best form to this point, but that could change in a hurry. The wild cards are Jentsch, Chavez, Babica, Dechaine, all of whom have shown occasional brilliance, but you never know what to expect from them. My sense is that neither Butmante nor Hundal doesn't has the straight pool pedigree to reach the final four, but you never know. Deuel is the one that's hardest to gauge. Corey's clearly a serious threat to beat anybody in the field, but I wonder whether he can manage sustained excellence at this level.
I think the picture will become a lot clearer in the evening session, which I'm rally looking forward to.