Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Tuesday, finally
So let's begin with that one, XPool and UnitedPool, and due to me being at the PFN match all night I didn't really catch even half of any 1 game. :/ Nor did I really pay attention to blacksilver-hotshotz because I was getting ready to leave. :\ I can tell ya however XPool did win 5-2, and though still eliminated from taking the top spot in the WildCard, they're 3 games behind PoolMasters who are 4th. As for UnitedPool, 4 games back with 4 weeks to play, may sound like elimination right? Wrong, PM hasn't met UP yet, or HotShotz who are also 4 back after...
Their match with BlackSilver. 3.5 behind the leader in the WildCard, 2.5 behind 4th place, going into this match, and as you can guess from my standings page on the right, they won. That result was 4-3, and asuming the games were reported in order, BS came back from down 2-3 to win, if so...well done.
OK, those outta the way, 2 teams atop their division, 1 perfect captain, 1 smart captain. the difference? 1 won, the other didn't. PoolFiction and CueKeepers, last week a team complained about safeties, apparently because it drags the game on and on, no safety complaints here, just...well, you decide. Game 1 playinpool against stud (qball). Safeties? Well, let's say it was a 24+ minute game. 12 minutes of it or so involved 1 stripe left along with the 8, qball was stripes by the way. Not a lot of complaining here, in fact I really didn't notice any. Stud thought he had the ball stuck in the pocket where pool would have no line, he had a line. Had to have, wasn't that far in. CKP up 1-0.
Next game, remember how cubby won his first game of the season? Hint: It was against UnitedPool, and the opponent couldn't nail ANY shots. That's history class, game 2 was thegreatone against...the not-so-great one :\ the latter would be me. Hey only 7 minutes for this one yay. First clear shot great gets, misses by about an inch and a half. That's 1.5 for those doing math. He'd get a safety out of it anyways. 2nd clear shot, with ball in hand, that's about...2.5 he missed by. He's missed 2 shots by a total of 4 inches, and no I'm not scaling. He also got a safety out of that. 2 strikes on ya great, gotta have it here...well he only barely missed that shot. Strike 3 you're out though bud, _Cubbyedge_ runs the final few balls and drops the 8. I'll tell you why greatone claims he lost later.
Game 3 we're all tied up, clever clam craig and bsilent. Silent: "wanna play cam craig?" 4-5 times, cmon once or twice is enough. People are getting way too carried away with this cam crap. About 7:25 into the game craig gets safetied, a big part of this game again, but makes a BEA-U-TI-FUL [looking] bank. He'd later say it was luck...Darn you blew your chance at more recognition. He would however finish running the table, and again CKP leads 2-1.
Tronic and jammy hure for game 4...to tie it back up...jammy cost himself the game by missing an 8ball shot in plc, doesn't wanna repeat that feat, CKP wants to watch the teletubbies marathon special that starts in 30 minutes. Safeties, people taking their time, it all came up in this match, and it mostly started in this game. Jammy gets to his last solid, they safety for about 5 minutes. He finally gets a clear shot, and makes it. He will take 6 minutes on this next shot. Hey Daru where are you? CKP players (mostly thegreatone and power god) want him to hurry up already. clever calm craig..wasn't very clever or calm about it either, rules do say if you get booted/d'ed after playing your game and you won, it gets reversed. That wouldn't happen but nobody would shut up, until around the end. Rob just like brandi in the PF match, doing just about everything he can to shut his team up. Jammy for a while considerred the bank from top to bottom middle, which craig took to mean he was trying to get a reaction from the CKP team, YM'ing me saying jammy took it too far, calling me bias at the table, I resemble that statement. :) Finally jammy does shoot it, and makes it, 2-2.
It would continue, game 5 Hill against Rob, throughout this entire match greatone was saying if he took 10 minutes on every shot he wouldn't have missed. I'd like to believe he may want to start practicing hitting the back side of Oprah Winfrey with a shot, then trying to hit a pocket. Power god would be booted after saying "yes" when hill got his cue stuck in the pocket. Couldn't really have been saying it to anyone else. he would return for the next game, even more on that coming. Rob's gonna try to run it all out, by the way greatone was booted also at some point this match, Rob gets to the last ball, and just barely misses it. Hill does finish however, PFN takes their first lead of the match it's 3-2.
Jammy offered a chance to take a break and try to settle this mess after game 5, apparently it wasn't necessary unless it was on YM. Jammy does allow power god to come back, and really, maybe Rob had a case there saying he shouldn't have been booted. And I was criticized for jumping the gun. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways, I think he got what he deserved, but upon returning he asked for jammy of all people to be booted. Said it multiple times and even during the game. Rob again tried to shut him up, as did the ump Sophie. The guy (jammy) is the reason you're being allowed to play, to ask for him to be booted immediately after is absolutely ignorant, stupid, insert words here. This game by the way was against zame who was sent in to finish the job, and finish he did. Power left all pissed off.
Game 7 marty and mystical angel, wal-marty gets a chance to run it, and he does after a few safeties. 5-2 PFN win.
Now as for greatone and power god, and even craig though not as much. This brings back memories of the PF match where CKP would've likely beaten PoolFighters, and they had a legitimate case, and it was stupid of the ump to boot for no reason, but they handled it the wrong way. Yahoo Messenger was created for a reason. Rob left brandi in charge of the team before he started losing it, that really shows he's a much more mature captain than perhaps his team would let you believe. Then with the Rob-Hill game, power or greatone kept saying "Rob take your time they did" he didn't, he shot as her normally does. Team immature, captain very mature. Later on in the lobby, after the match, greatone said he missed because people IM'ed him telling him to. Rob again told him to shut up, I really don't think Rob has done a single thing wrong as a captain this season. Poolfiction, and myself included, also added fuel to the fire when we should've shut up. I'm sure Rob knows that, and I've apologized for that in the lobby and shoutbox, and plan to on YM if I see him. Another thing that was absolutely stunning, was through all this some douchebag on the name SAMUEL_LJACKSON got away with just about anything he wanted to say. In fact he even argued in the lobby, and was talking with that "foul mouth" that people were warned about in the previous night's ph-bbm match. It wasn't even picked up by the ump even when Jack said bye sammy, Sophie never saw it but again, to her credit she was on duty in another match as well, but there were ways to get to her. Stuff happens though.
As for the standings now PoolFiction has not quite clinched a playoff spot yet, bummer. 1 more win does it, yay. CueKeepers drop to a half-game behind in the wildcard and division standings. They're likely to be a whole game back in at least 1 of them. CKP does seem to be getting the short end of the stick in disputes this season though, and honestly I hope that doesn't continue.
