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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

More for riddance

so_wolf_cub4: Game lasts about 5:13 on krunal's screen from the time rich moves the cue on the break
so_wolf_cub4: On rich's, it lasts from :19 to 5:29, he shoots at about the 5:26 point
so_wolf_cub4: unless my match is wrong that;s 5:10 of gametime, to krunal's 5:13
so_wolf_cub4: Am I missing something?
so_wolf_cub4: Because 3 seconds to open an aimer and lineup a shot is quit impressive I must say
This is from a conversation I had with liquid snake, by the way yes there are a few typos there but the math as far as I see leaves rich 3 seconds to A: Open an aimer, B: Line up a shot with an aimer, and C: close the aimer and start recording again. Now if he was in fact using an aimer and just previewing the shot, well the window is small enough that he could move that box outside of it, and there'd be absolutely no reason to pause. This is of course assuming he has the aimer on his computer, if not then he would also have to download it and use it all in that 3 second span. So if I'm wrong someone PLEASE correct me.

Wednesday

4 matches tonight fun fun, 2 leagues playing tonight came into this week in a 4-way tie for their Division, only 1 made it out with a win, and how another race could become a real big mess by the end of the week.

Leading off the night straightshots visiting britpool, time for a little foozeball in game 1 it's fooze against StraightShots' Blake. Seemed fooze actually had the upp-hand for awhile in this match but that doesn't really amount to much. All that really matters is who wins, that would be Blake, that would be 1-0 SS. Good Riddance would win his game, to put SS on top 2-0 and then of course, there's more about Rich, I'll get to that later, may not make any mass-happy friends. Then skips and slavko from BP were able to knock off cameron and the american pool KID, scott. 2-2 after PF lost to HP anything can happen, but...it didn't. SS rally off 3 consecutive wins, JJ closed it in game 6, 'Shots clean up it's a 5-2 win, they tie CueKeepers in the Atlantic, and actually since there's no head to head record yet, SS leads by a few games on the w/l record.

If you read the top of this post you'd know 1 league won, 1 lost, SS won, guess we know what happened to the MadSkillz team for the 2nd week in a row. Pimps show up 3 minutes late with just YankeeChic and lil provie killer...they would only get 4 more...6 enough to beat MZ? TRP won a match over the Smoking Cues with 6...here we go. MadSkillz jump out to a 2-0 lead behind jaggededge and scubzz, nice season so far for jaggededge by the way...maybe give king hustler a run for that all-star team. But then...Death and ganja were able to bag wins to tie this baby up 2-2, man see a pattern? Moe's up to stop the streak, it'll be 3-2 after this game, PLP only had 6 and won, this is game 5, you do the math. Moe either tried a safety and messed up, or tried to pot a ball and just barely missed, slope didn't miss, and I already told you the score. Game 6 it's YankeeChic in to clinch it, and this is what I don't get...You KNOW Pimps have 6, they said it all night, why put pete over king hustler? Well they did that, and it burned 'em. Pete, early 8 the game lasted about...50 seconds. Early 8 taken, Pimps forfeit game 7 but they still win it over MadSkillz 4-3.

Quick intermission what does this do to the AL Atlantic? It puts PoolPimps just 2 games behind in the division and wildcard, 1 game off 4th place in the WildCard who happens to be MadSkillz. EZ8 with a win tomorrow night can tie for the Division lead in match record, but because of games record (in a 3-way tie) it's a mess, assuming my number-crunching is right, they would not exactly be at the very top, so still in the wildcard column as well. They'd be above PF though because, well, week 1 heh.

The "other" AL match SuperbPool doesn't want to be eliminated from the division race, they wanna move to 2 games back from 4th place in the Wildcard, Breakers Alley wouldn't mind ending their losing streak and doing the latter as well. Frankly I missed most of this match, in fact I missed just about all of it due to watching other matches and bugging someone on the phone. However I can tell ya SuperbPool won 5-2 and they do go to 2.0 games behind in the WildCard race, at least for 4th place in the race that is.

Only NL action tonight, ElitePool, the carousel team, against BeerBallers. Kenny standing in as captain, will the Elites be up or down? Game 3 EP with a 2-0 lead, that's where I picked up you'll have to fill in the blanks yourself, it's Daru, take a couple NyQuil cya in the morning. Why he takes forever to shoot nobody knows but it sure did piss off dropping enough, so much in fact he would put up a fit and continue complaining about it until finally Dan says shut up and the admins say they'll handle it. Others got involved but it's frankly more fun to point out the source. Hey it worked though, 2-1, middle of game 4 there's Pascal, got enough time to show up. busted balls of cheese and flip were playing that game by the way, flip for EP, and choking balls of cheese pulled a regul8or. Chokes on a key shot, flip won't choke, and EP up 3-1 is that...?yeah that's right wow EP up 3-1 I say again EP up 3-1. This is not a drill. First captain call for Pascal, c0rrupter against motormouth, some of you can guess that's Brandon. Fast forward to a much faster game than Daru's let's go to the end it's entertaining. Scott makes a nice shot to get to the 8, all the hard work and whew...3-2...check that, 4-1. 8Ball hangs dead in the pocket, and Bran just finishes the table, up to the 8, where Scott throws a hissy fit and conceeds...shades of John Kerry, except Kerry never really cried. Anyways, EP would go on to win 5-2, justin (gratifying) would get boxed for 30 days as a preliminary measure so the admins can talk about him trying to boot Bran and Jack.

What does this do for the NL? Well it ties the WildCard race, gives PoolHustlers the outright lead in the NL Pacific, but it also puts the Regul8ors a win away from making the top of the NL Wildcard a 3-way tie. If that doesn't happen there will be a 3-way tie anyways, this one for the 4th spot in the Wildcard GOD THIS IS EXCITING =\ it would put the Regs, Masters, and Smoking Cues 1 game back from the top, and all tied for #4 in the WildCard, don't you love MLP?

Now as far as Good_Riddance goes, say what you want, but regardless of any pausing blah blah blah, I don't think for 1 second he used an aimer. Noone in SS believes it, lot of people outside SS don't believe it either, including me. It came up twice during the EP match, Dan definately did the right thing and stopped it right at the start. Rich knows what happened to Ivey I'm sure, why would he do something that stupid and repeat Steve's mistake? Look at it logically people and you'll definately see my point. The fact: He paused his tape for a good amount of time then shot the 8. The reality: He wouldn't throw away everything he's done in pool on 1 silly little game. Granted I still haven't seen the tape yet but I eventually plan to, and if noone's willing to send it to me they can't be all that confident they have a case now can they :)