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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Week 13 Tour

Not a whole Tour summary though, two people were going for records. Pool Hustler aka_pomking going for the skill rating and win streak records, as was Absolute Finest's fire_wolf87, Pom came in with a +14, and 188-something I honestly forgot lol, fire wolf 1879, and he had the +16 streak in a tie with jammy, king james, and damn_balls who got to 16 this season.

And so we start with round 1...HP's Chuck_Money against DreamPooler ViperVo to face pomking, LuckyPooler the_l0ser_l0ser against Quez's miz to face fire-wolf. Chuck Money would advance, as would miz as l0ser couldn't shoot with the lag caused by Cam. So it's set... Chuck_Money against pomking, miz against fire_wolf.

Round 2: Pomking takes care of Chuck fairly easily at the end, and Chris is +15. Fire-wolf however, against miz, miz went for an unnecessary bank, gave Nick ball in hand, and he, don't, mess, these, up. And you're now looking at the new all-time win streak leader AF_fire-wolf87 at +17. So Pomking 15 - 17 fire_wolf.

Round 3: fire_wolf gets PO's aka_chris_soccer, pomking draws LuckyPooler Colonel_KC. Pommy ends up losing to Colonel, ending the streak, stopping Pom at an 1888 skill rating, dropped him to 1840 and of course -1. Fire_wolf...Ohhh he's still goin. Beats aka_chris_soccer and he is +18...Man I can only imagine the rating after all that. So now we're just watching Nick because ph-alex did not end up playing and going for the skill rating.

Round 4: Back to back Outlaws this time it's MJ, this time it's +19. Nick nailing the nice bank off the bottom rail to top right, and my goodness these are Nintendo stats! +19, and a 1911 skill rating! Don, your record is gone, and that rhymes pretty well.

Round 5: Semi-finals, against PikachuKicks of Tour Points-leading PoolMasters, that's ehkohz for the uninformed. The win streak finally ends as Missy wins after a fire_wolf scratch, bad way to lose a streak but damn...an impressive 19-game win streak, 2v2, thrown game by Luis or not, it's still impressive.

But even more impressively, he finishes with a 1911 Skill Rating, 4 more than Don's all-time high, a record I honestly thought would never be broken. Reason: This is MLP, you're looking at a 1 vs. 1 every Sunday, 1 other game per week, and a 2 vs. 2 only once a month. This isn't like npa where a 2000 Skill Rating isn't even an accomplishment because every time you go on messenger you have offlines of people asking for p's for a teamer. So 1911 is definately an amazing accomplishment, and what's better from my standpoint, is it wasn't a big-mouth who broke it. It wasn't some idiot who can't lose a game without pissing and moaning, or miss a shot without going "OMFG WTF BS" etc., he's an automatic vote for All-Star I think especially with this. Now he can rest a little, now that he has the record off his shoulders, and the focus now shifts to MadSkillz. Will ph-alex be able to make a run at fire_wolf's 1911 rating? He's idle at 1905. Would be nice to save those tapes from tonight, copy 'em to a DVD or something if he wants to, because an accomplishment like this doesn't happen very often. Again congrats to fire_wolf87 of AbsoluteFinest, a good player, and not just because of his shooting skills, he has a great attitude about it as well.

DVD line was a joke kids -_-