Fatboy
Verified Member
Wow!!!
sweated 3 matches so far,
Great camera work, stream is great, audio levels are spot on. Billy, Ken, and Danny & Scott are doing brilliant commentary. I do miss Grady.
I dont think the 10' table is making much difference(so far jury is still out on that).
the shot clock is very good, keeps the pace good but isn't having a negative effect on the players, Shannon fouled once(looked accidental).
Ref's Ken and the other gentleman(dont know his name) are right there with the rest when the players need it and have done very good. One time the other gentleman(not Ken) walked up to take balls out of the hole in front of Shane's shot(I think that too was a accident).
The matches so far have been pretty good, race to 3 is short, but with the round robin format it makes sense.
Pat of course is doing a great job as always.
My only complaint is I'm in Germany and I wont get to bed until 6am....again.LOL
I hope this event is successful and there are more like it in the future, it showcases great players, not a long grind match(those are cool too-this is nice for a change) hopefully we see some long uptable games.
the break as billy noted is any ones guess right now, by the end they will all be using the same break. Which leads me to a question, for the old timers:
Back in the mid 80's I played lots on the 10' snooker box, this one old guy told me about 10' box's and one pocket one day, he was in his 80's then, dont recall his name, he would be 110 years old now. He was the real deal, I remember him plane as day telling me that back in the day-probably the 40's or 50's the best and only break was off the bottom ball like a 14.1 break and freeze the rock on the head cushion. I would imagine that was back in the mud ball days on slow cloth too. Cory did that once tonight with a good result-cory being Cory(not a knock) didnt do that on his next break.
So the Question is was that "The" break back then? now with faster everything that plan for the break might be out the window, but was the 14.1 style break anything here anyone remembers?
thanks again,
Eric
sweated 3 matches so far,
Great camera work, stream is great, audio levels are spot on. Billy, Ken, and Danny & Scott are doing brilliant commentary. I do miss Grady.
I dont think the 10' table is making much difference(so far jury is still out on that).
the shot clock is very good, keeps the pace good but isn't having a negative effect on the players, Shannon fouled once(looked accidental).
Ref's Ken and the other gentleman(dont know his name) are right there with the rest when the players need it and have done very good. One time the other gentleman(not Ken) walked up to take balls out of the hole in front of Shane's shot(I think that too was a accident).
The matches so far have been pretty good, race to 3 is short, but with the round robin format it makes sense.
Pat of course is doing a great job as always.
My only complaint is I'm in Germany and I wont get to bed until 6am....again.LOL
I hope this event is successful and there are more like it in the future, it showcases great players, not a long grind match(those are cool too-this is nice for a change) hopefully we see some long uptable games.
the break as billy noted is any ones guess right now, by the end they will all be using the same break. Which leads me to a question, for the old timers:
Back in the mid 80's I played lots on the 10' snooker box, this one old guy told me about 10' box's and one pocket one day, he was in his 80's then, dont recall his name, he would be 110 years old now. He was the real deal, I remember him plane as day telling me that back in the day-probably the 40's or 50's the best and only break was off the bottom ball like a 14.1 break and freeze the rock on the head cushion. I would imagine that was back in the mud ball days on slow cloth too. Cory did that once tonight with a good result-cory being Cory(not a knock) didnt do that on his next break.
So the Question is was that "The" break back then? now with faster everything that plan for the break might be out the window, but was the 14.1 style break anything here anyone remembers?
thanks again,
Eric
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