Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Wednesday Night's Results
We'll begin with that MadSkillz match...or lack thereof. Breakers Alley had players but thought they needed at least 4 to play, whoops. They ended up forfeiting and thus eliminating themselves completely from the playoffs. MadSkillz would move to a half-game behind the StraightShots now, pressure's on guys.
Game 1 in that match, apostle (nugget reborn) against NewCastle's bpbpurs. bp chokes on the 8ball shot giving the nugget a chance to lead-off with a W, you know in the Air Force "nugget" refers to a rookie pilot or in-training pilot. Kid passed his training, welcome to the SS team. You've given them a 1-0 lead.
Game 2 it's that rich guy again, Good Riddance against screwball. Screw messes up a chance to run it but does play a safety, effective enough as Rich couldn't pot his last ball or counter-safety. Screwball gets to the 8 but...can't hit the bank. Rich gonna win? Not a chance. He also chokes, put a 2 under the "C" column overall for this match. Screwball the game back and just knocks the 8 down. We're tied.
Game 3 poolfreak (ajay fresh out of the box, also from PH) against JOJO, who nearly hit a bank that would've changed the entire swing of the game. But, she didn't, and a few moments later after a botched bank attempt hit well short by jojo, ajayjay finishes her off. She would report and then leave after saying everyone at the table needed to shut up. Even though she never had a problem with it during the game. Nice excuse :Game 4 was between mspoolpro and the welsh guy from NewCastle. NC just wants to tie this match back up, and eventually win so they don't get eliminated from the playoffs altogether. Again fast forward to the end of the game, poolpro leaves her cueball in the top middle, has a solid halfway into the bottom middle, makes it but was way off on the shot, she also hit the 8ball first. That's a foul, that's a free 8ball shot for welsh, that's a 2-2 tie.
Game 5 Blake against LovelyLisaM...Still no romper yet, but we know who he's waiting for. Lisa almost had it run but needed to A: Make the 9 and B: Get a shot on the 8 - she did neither. And the american pool stud did not disappoint. He gave SS yet ANOTHER lead in this see-saw match.
Game 6 'Shots have 3 wins, and it's automatic, JJ will be against Romper. JJ, looking to clinch this match and keep their lead at 1 whole game in the Atlantic over MadSkillz, and possibly a whole game over EZ8 if they lose to the Pimps, if he can make this solid and the 8...he gets Yahooed. Had the right power, but the way it hit the ball I guess Yahoo's programmers don't like it that way. Romper steals one and hey, it's 3-3.
Game 7 But look at how it's been, NC has not led at all this match, would they lead when it counted the most? Build the drama, dj spir0 and EvilPapa. Looked like at a few times Papa could've easily won the game if he knew how to run it, and spir0 ALMOST dropped the 8. Then rather than try to rail-runner shot on the left side, spir0 tried a bank, and missed. papa didn't do much better, in fact he scratched trying to...uh...do something. Spir0 would escape with the win, and SS avoid an embarassing loss to NewCastle, 2 leagues knocked out of the playoffs in a span of about...20 minutes.
LPL and HappyPool, 2 leagues pool_warrior2002 has been a HUGE part of in MLP, and it seems everywhere he goes the league kicks ass, everywhere he leaves....they suck. Just look at LPL from season 2, 5-1 through 6 weeks, ended 6-6. They got a forfeit win against...guess who, TRP. But after HP "screwed" him in Season 3, picture of mephy please. Well since he's allowed 2 switches per season he's going over to LPL for 1 match to knock them further back in the Wildcard hunt, you screw me I screw you harder, and we'll see who hurts the most. I was watching the EP-PO match at the time so I don't have any of the juicy details except one...Guess who clinched the win for LPL over HappyPool...pool_warrior2002. Wouldn't ya know it? Apparently astro wasn't happy about his loss, like that's a first. But LPL comes away with a 5-2 win, and they know they're still likely not gonna make the playoffs, but they took a rival down with 'em.
Now about the Elites and Outlaws match. It's only around 7-8 megs...nice huh? I can email it through Yahoo, YES! Let's get right to it.
Game 1 it's jack against Kyle. Jack wants to run it, the pool Gods say no. Then with ball in hand later in the game, Kyle proceeds to what the Outlaws have done at least 4 times in their past 24 regular season matches - win.
Game 2 we've seen the EP captain, now we'll see the Outlaws captain. More about him too. Kevin against MisterLucky (eat_sleep_pool). they would safety quite a bit, and really through most of the game, until Rob drew a foul with 2 solids and stripes left, Rob makes a NICE shot to free up his other solid, then...proceeds to, choke on the 8, as we've seen in MLP all season long. Kevin can only safety though, and on his next shot couldn't find the top middle pocket. Rob ties the game up at 1.
Game 3 ReallyBigAssNegro against...miz. Who? Eh, whatever. Big cluster on the right side, we're gonna safety kids. Until...Ahem...I said UNTIL... Negro safeties once again, and a little Yahoo saves miz from an inevitable foul. But miz can't make anything of it and the Negro goes on to win and the Elites are up 2-1, through about 50 minutes of actual playing time.
Game 4 We're probably just gonna see the see-saw effect right? Like in SS-NC? Scotter and No1_Shooter. Oh Chris is bringing back the old name. But then scotter after a poor safety from Chris just wants to get this done with. Believe in the DONKEY, because he's ending this bad boy with a nice shot on his final solid, putting the 8 into the open table, yo EP up 3-1 AGAIN. Becoming a pattern.
Game 5 JJ couldn't do his job as closer for SS, could Brandon do it for ElitePool? Could he be the one who ends the 24-match regular season streak of the Outlaws? And make this a 4-way tie in the Pacific (Which EP would lead due to a 4-way tie coming down to games record, a win would require 43 total, which would lead the Hustlers)? Well, Stud_Paul had something to say about it. And throughout this game as well we'd have safeties start to finish. For anyone who watches the entire tape of this whole match, fast forward to 1:15:30 or so and you'll see one hell of a bank from Brandon, who slams down a cuebank in about 2 seconds like it was NOTHING. ....But he has no real shot at the 8 and he just safeties, that would continue until Paul just barely misses contact, and Brandon takes that ball in hand, knocks down the 8 on a rather tough shot still, the streak is over. 4-1 ElitePool but would it stand? Yes, and I'll explain the dispute later.
Game 6 Jamie (Poth) and droppin. See now we're just playing for...well...4-way tie games. Yep...Jamie's pissed. He's just gonna run droppin good morning good afternoon goodnight, 4-2. Need I really explain it all?
Game 7 flip against Austin. Flip gets ball in hand since Austin really had no chance getting out of that situation he was in, Austin, simon says...You lose. Flip makes a really great shot on his final stripe, perfect control, then knocks off the 8, not only does EP beat the Outlaws, they take the PO team to school. 5-2 the final here, wow.
Now as for that little dispute. Kevin wanted Brandon penalized for celebrating after he beat Paul to clinch it...this coming while Paul left without even saying gg. At all. Never. For the rest of the night. Just...never. So uh...you're stupid? How else can I say it? I can't really be nice about it because, it really was stupid. Brandon did not get boxed, but come on, how can you say he should've been? Kevin it ain't the NFL. You guys lost and in fact you got smoked, get over it, it happens. PoolMasters survive in the NL Mountain just 2 games back, Outlaws still just a win (other than the TRP forfeit) or a Masters loss from clinching the Division, and the final tally on the win streak: 24. They're now -1. Long time coming? With the start they had? Yep. ElitePool now leads the NL Pacific technically, 4-way tie rules state it's always games record, EP still has a forfeit win against SC coming up...
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.
