Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Wednesday Picks
SuperbPool @ CueKeepers
Cubby: SuperbPool's been a team struggling all season. They gave DreamPool a run last week, but it still doesn't seem like they're really into this stuff. Jivemaster still hasn't even won a 7v7 match this season, and they're going against a CueKeeper team that Brandi has really done well to manage. They do have certain players who don't play a lot of MLP but can play well, and I shouldn't need to even mention how good clever_calm_craig is. I think CKP can handle SPool pretty easily and win 5-2
Chris: You covered everything just about. SP has nothing to lose so I'll say they put up a fight. 4-3.
WildAngels @ HappyPool
Cubby: Both of these teams look even from the outside, but the edge has to go with WildAngels. This team gave Quez a good run for their money, and forget the Paul being DQed excuse, they hung with 'em. ANDY_3_16 just got named Member Service for MLP recently, it'd be great if he could lead his team to a little celebration win. But I think Judy's team when you look at a few players like SongNeverEnds,Varmitmaster, Nat if he decides to show, they can get the job done if they need to. I think they'll really be needed, and they'll step up to the call here. I'm taking another 5-2, WA to win.
Chris: I feel HP has the stronger team here SEAN! WA is on a losing skid of 3 even though both have identical records. I feel Andy's new job will give new confidence to bring his team some wins. 5-2 HP.
Regul8ors @ ChampionsPool
Chris: Regs 6-1. Gg.
Cubby: Regs: Upset-Prone. CHP: Underrated. Problem is...CHP lost lvlr_c0mputer in MLP and I don't recall him ever rejoining. Whatever the issue is there I don't think it can be good. I think if there's some bad issue there, CHP is very vulnerable to throw away this nice start they've had and maybe not even make Playoffs. For the Regs you see players like JJ, Pita, James, Generaly_Cool, I mean they've got a nice team. I've heard Jer's supposed to be going to his old league HotShotz, Lucky's gonna play with PoolLegends but technically he can still play for the Regs tonight. Regs just have a vastly better team, if they don't overlook CHP they win this 5-2 or 6-1.
Cubby: Is that all you're saying? 6-1 gg? lol
Chris: yes lol, sometimes 4 words are needed.
Cubby: that's 3, and 5 if ya count the numbers.
Tuesday Night
PoolOutlaws @ 8BallRunners - Tried recording this match along with 2 others, didn't really have much luck. Dan (revolutionizingthegame) picked up a win against the reckless shooting of king_smurf in game 1, followed by a win during a tense game against mspoolpro from Robbie (cr80rrdr) and that's about all I saw of this match. I did see Trouble4some with a not-so-convincing win over CoolCalmChris...But any time Chris loses it's great =D got more losses than me punk! But...Trouble hasn't been what he was last season by any stretch. Austin got a game 4 win however over mike_scop to make it 3-1 Outlaws. Then the player absolutely nobody knew when he joined MLP, Full_Blast...In to clinch it against Miz. Miz however on the 8 to extend the maaaaaaaaatchhhhhh.....No. Easy 8ball shot for someone like miz, that's simply a choke. That made it 4-1 Outlaws, they improve on their lead over MadSkillz in the Atlantic, and would win this one 4-3. Jamie apparently timed out in his game. Outlaws 6-1, 2-match lead over MadSkillz, and they did all this missing a few players. ...But when your crappiest player can win a 3-3 game 7 that really doesn't matter. Runners fall to 3-4, in a tie with ElitePoolers, and whoever lost between LPL and UnitedPool...So who's it gonna be?
You'll find out later. LuckyPool @ Breakers Alley - Favored to win this by a landslide? That's on LuckyPool's resume...wasn't the case early. BamRam fell to BA's truetexassweetheart after some rather sloppy shooting, but he almost nailed a no-line cuebank off the left side to bottom right, ball hung. But overall he should've lost well before that. Lucky Snake had a chance to get LKP on the board after kiss_rulzs missed an easy 8 shot. But he went and shot the 2ball too hard when it was on the top rail, cueball followed along the rail, into the pocket even though it wasn't a straight-in shot. I didn't see him blame yahoo and I hope he didn't because...He had no business pounding that ball in. But...Colonel_KC to the rescue the first LuckyPooler to actually shoot well, he was rewarded well with a win, and that turned the whole match around. Wins came from The_Bone_27, lucky20020, licker_blast, tommyboythefine all after that win, LKP comes back from 0-2 to win it 5-2, what the heck else is new with LKP? This particular 5-2 puts them at 4-2...such a shame they're procrastinating with that BE match, they could be...yeah, 5-2 by now. That'll have to wait till next week, they're 4-2 right now and still a couple wins behind AbsoluteFinest in the Mountain. Breakers Alley? 1-6, but hey the main thing is they're having fun with it, tey're not acting like assholes, they could go 1-14 and I'd still have a ton of respect for them. ...They're my only win as captain too. Thought I'd brag. :s
Lava Pool Lounge @ UnitedPool - ...UnitedPool's not a bad team. Let me just preface this whole thing with that. They're about as underrated as ChampionsPool to most people, and they showed they're capable of winning in this one. Pauls_gift_to_you started it off against Rufferman. Did I mention these guys can bank you out of your shoes? Paul on the 8...hey ruffer! THAT'S Paul's gift to you! Bank off the bottom rail to the top middle, Uniteds up 1-0. But then Ogges against cadillac pimpin... Not the EP Captain, Pimp blows an easy 6-ball shot, ogges leaves himself with a shot from the middle of the table to the top right...Oh he knocked it off the 3 on the top rail and it still went. That's how ya tie a match and show off at the same time. Moe up against Ketan...Moe was with LPL for his last switch and even though he was bounced from the team, he couldn't be released so...He's still eligible to play. And play he did...But he lost after ketan put together a nice run-out, consisting of a breakout, combo, and a tough shot on the 1 hanging in the bottom left, to get position on the 8. Ketan's goooood I mean really good. 2-1 UP. Badking against skips...BK's on a -11 streak ever since he ran me in the cam tourney and got dqed for not having timestamp through the whole game...I cursed the kid =D Wouldn't it be great to kill the streak now and make it 3-1? Not happening. Skips braves the chance of a glitched ball in hand and drains the 12-ball, cross table to the top left. Very difficult shot considerring it was unclear if it'sd even go. He tied it though, it's 2-2. Poor BK's -12....hasn't won a game since Ghandi last had a sandwich. I didn't record game 5 because I was messing around with some setting or something...But Joker_69696 ran gooner straight from the break. I'd say LPL certainly did have an answer for him. That's 3-2 for LPL. But while I was umping bbm and pf, and booting scroller ids who had to have come from Sophie because she's evil =P Danny452 took care of king_vaughan to tie it at 3. Game 7, GodsAccess, Amir, Access ends up on the 8 and has 3 options: Roll off the 1 into the bottom middle, bank to the top middle, or safety. Safety? Ha, yeah right. BINGO was his name-o. Nails the caaaaaa-lutch bank off the bottom rail to top middle, 4-3 UnitedPool squeaks one out over LPL, to move into a 2nd place tie with stumbling MadSkillz. LPL now 3-4, tied with 8BR and ElitePool, yes that'll go into the Cubby Vault as a game-changing performance. :)
Beer Ball Masters @ PoolFighters - Who says BBM's new team can't hang with a team like PF? Eskim0s...He's good. Ran it out against lil_bit_me4u to give PF a 1-0 lead, BBM never led in this one. Game 3 though, PF up 2-0, they tried. pcp_is_back beat out that horse guy, houy except he was aka_drunk_penguin this time. Then in game 4, Innocent_Criminal made...a real stupid shot knocking his 12 around, when he easily had a run without doing so, he lost to l_eso_l after his pretty run, and blamed luck...I blamed suck. Catchy ain't it? 2-2 BBM fighting back...But Skrew gave PF another lead 3-2 after finishing with some nice shots against capacityflaw. Game 6, Corey against knites_lady...He gets a situation where he pretty much needs to bank, top to bottom left. He would stall for about...15 minutes. Had just under 2 minutes to shoot on the timer that was placed on him while he stalled for Adnan to arrive... By the way he was called ineligible because he reset his stats, admins meeting to hopefully reverse some silly decision that would've made him eligible in prior seasons sometime soon. Corey did win, made it 4-2, Scotter beat Ivey who was FINALLY eligible for a match, PF wins it 5-2. They also advance to 4-2, tied with the Regs, they also have another match this week, hosting Break and Run on Thursday. BeerBallers are 3-3, with a 2-match week coming next week when they play PoolLegends, who will be replacing PoolPals and taking their 1-5 record. IndianPool was going to..Then changed their minds. And one of their idiots said I was the reason they didn't get to replace EZ8 before. -_-
PoolMasters @ HotShotz - Not much to say about this one, I caught it during game 4, then was multi-tasking like crazy during the final 3. PM won it 4-3, they had the first 4 wins. With that 4-3, PM IS 4-3, tied with the Hustlers. They even have the same win/loss, how cute. HotShotz 4-2 now they're tied with LuckyPool...Stiiiill waiting on the makeup matches with Bearskins.