Monday, February 21, 2005
Monday's results
Let's kick it off shall we? Yahoo problems, AF's room Surrender closed due to toilet maintenance so we'll head to the land of lag, Break and Run's room. TourneyPool jumped off to a 1-0 lead as Netty was able to put away Absolute Finest's fire_wolf, after a valiant run attempt from the player whom I will refer to as...the other wolf. Netty then...unlike her Absolute Finest counterpart was able to enjoy the wonders of a wide open table, easy pickings. Wouldn't take long for derek to put on a show throughout his game and level it all up at singles, running 6 stripes against Goochonfire. Tied 2-2 later on, ida_ho_hunter for TP, Maverick615 for AF, the unter chokes on the easy 8, Maverick takes the time to make sure not to return the favor, Finest on the hill 3-2. Game 6 it's that texas outlaw guy from TourneyPool against lllvlll_p00ler_lllvlll...Outlaw with a shot that looks like there's a good chance he'll get the shaft from Yahoo. Aaaaaaand yeah that's a glitch. P00ler then proceeds to finish off any chance of TP tying it up, and all his rowdy friends are comin over tonight. p00ler clinches it, RVDBlade would go on to win game 7, final score 5-2 AbsoluteFinest.
XPool and 8BallRunners, this one not even a match. XPool in the first 5 games? 5-0. In some interleagues that's a sweep good games cya next week. In MLP that leaves 2 more games. Pizzaskater15 to take on mike_scop. pizza says XPool, earlier, is unstoppable. Judy and WildAngels your thoughts? Mike_scop would put him away. The other guy talkin it, someone named xxx_chokey_xxx. Name kinda says it all. So while he's talking it, and I play through the tape of this game, let's bring up his result from last week courtesy of my Dodger fan friend who loves Derek Lowe, Hill. Oh ok, so he lost last week. Well he's stuck now against 8BR's Trouble4some...and when chokey gets to the 8...yeah, you kinda guessed it. Trouble4some just knocks down his final stripes, yeah chokey's now 0-2...Hand the talkin duties to someone else I guess. Final score, 5-2 XPool still chews up 8BR and spits em out into the neighbor's back yard. Second time in as many weeks 8BR had been finished by game 5. They play CueKeepers next week.
Speaking of CueKeepers how'd they do against BritPool? Let's fast forward to game 5, score tied 2-2 until playinpool.fu is left with a tough bank, cueball is where it usually starts after a scratch while the 8 is near the bottom right, about a half inch off the rail and an inch and few inches from bottom right, which is blocked by the 7. makes the shot of the night, off the bottom rail to the top right pocket, on the tough angle, in a tied match, oh the Keepers love him. game 6 frustrating moment for BritPool, mind_da_pool, BP captain, getting booted apparently during his game, IM bomb, stuff like that, and he's easy to upset. Wasn't happy, didn't have too many kind words for anyone either, he would by the way lose...but kathy grneyes would beat Brandi in game 7. However, too little too late, CKP wins it 4-3 still.
Bonkers, circus, bananas, weird controversial finish in this one BeerBallers against Breaker's Alley. Now remember BBM is the away team they choose first. BBM ace Don would lose game 1 to hippichick. Towelie would tie it up in game 2, Breakers would take the lead again as BBM captain Scott fell in his game. Finally BBM would get the lead in game 5 with back to back wins from The Great Zero and Clogz. Game 6...They wanna call some makaveli guy but he's not in MLP so guess what, Breakers Alley and BBm are both again caught in improbable 3-3 deadlocks. Game 7 will be Ivey, against...Well Breakers Alley goes on timer. The ump will be rounding minutes, remember that. Admin on duty robbie says he can help a player who had to change her ID, who stumbled in late, but didn't know her pass. Ump times the Breakers out but the loss is still given to the BA player. BBM wins 4-3 on timer, Ivey happy, right? Well...Just a couple hours ago, after conferring with a few admins on the matter, it's discovered by myself, and apparently Trace had heard something of it even beforehand, that Ivey doesn't have the 10 tourney games required to play in MLP. In fact he's 0-0 in tourneys. Therefore, controversial timeout? Wiped. Kamasutra_Goddess awarded the win over ll_ivey_ll and guess what? That means instead of 4-3 BeerBallers, Breakers Alley has been given the 4-3 win instead! So now both teams as of right now are 1-1, though I suppose there is always the possibility of a second overruling, so those who took BBM in Hill's pickem don't throw a fuss juuuuuuust yet.
But, I do have to touch on something...This whole rounding off to the minute deal. A timer could go on 10 seconds prior to a new minute starting, and instead of 10 minutes, a team could get 9:10. There was certainly not a full ten minutes given in the BA match tonight and it nearly did cost them, if not for the ineligibility of Ivey. So I leave everyone with a question: Do MLP Umpires need timer programs instead of rounding minutes? That be all for tonight.