Thursday, February 23, 2006
Thursday Night Results
Cue Keepers (1-0 [7-0, 7 forfeit wins])
Pool Master (0-1 [0-7, 7 forfeit losses])
XPool (1-0 [5-2])
itwuzzentme13a13y - 1-0
sydnypoolplayer - 1-0
xpool.judy - 1-0
xxxMrPimpxxx - 1-0 [1 Clincher]
southern_desire - 1-0
XXXnaughtygirlXXX - 0-1
CANADIAN_BEER - 0-1
Wild Angels (0-1 [2-5])
pimpin.tactics - 1-0
FearRomeo - 1-0
wa.stephen - 0-1
SilverWolf_moonbeam - 0-1
rose.babe - 0-1
QUEEN_4_EVER - 0-1 [0/1 Saves]
partslady29 - 0-1
#10 Break and Run @ #1 Nice Racks
Game 1 - Game moved quite fast and both playes missed some near-gimmes. Kelly did a good job of avoid giving bih once but Poopman pretty much had control of the game at that point.... However, after a couple shots, Poopman went for the easy run, but botched the shot on the 11 going for bottom left. Kelly easily finished the 2 solids, BNR goes up 1-0.
Game 2 - More of a slower game 2, but still the usual easy misses. Capwhanda especially had trouble with the 2 middle pockets, while Sir Shroom struggled with mostly any kind of long shot, primarily due to being a safety-oriented player. Cap eventually gained ball advantage simply by lack of positioning from Shroom, and then with 3 solids and a stripe, the safeties began. After Shroom missed a bank attempt for his final ball off bottom rail to top middle, Cappy finished out easily and BNR got a win closer to a 10-1 upset, leading 2-0.
Game 3 - Deadly nights tried to run it quickly but got into trouble, having 1 solid against 6 stripes. After a couple fouls, kotor knocked down the 14-13 combo to the bottom left, and it was off to the races. However, he botched position with 1 stripe remaining, ALMOST nailed the 2-rail cuebank on the 15 but no dice, and BNR goes up THREE-0!
Game 4 - It was inevitable... safety battle between pain purifies and pita from the beginning. Pita primarily intentionally fouled to try and force some shots out of pain, and get an advantage as far as balls left on the table. Pain evened it out consistently without fouling. Late in the game, James tried to run but barely missed, Pita touched his 10 and the backspin dropped the 4ball for a good safety. With bih after, Pita made his 10 and then the safeties began again full-force. That only lasted for a short time though, as pain immediately gave him bih again, Pita keeps NR alive but it's still 3-1.
Game 5 - Sweet heart went for the run with 6 stripes to go, it looked rather easy at first but it got much harder than it had to be. A safety battle soon followed. However, after a scratch by sweetheart David took advantage and BNR secures the upset in 5.
Game 6 - mmm.purr (aka FroggyGoddess) wins over kingmatt_87 to make it 5-1.
Game 7 - HHHMikeHHH wins for NR over sgttedbuxton to make it a 5-2 Final.
HUGE win for BNR, and Nice Racks now have a little question surrounding them. Are they overrated, or was this simply a 1-time thing? Is BNR this good? Well, they took advantage of plenty of NR mistakes. Primarily botched runs. It was simply contrasting styles of play - NR the D-I type slow-play, and BNR the run-n-gun style, for the most part. 17 weeks to go however, still plenty of games to be won and lost.
STATS:
Break and Run (1-0 [5-2])
kellyhero2003 - 1-0
deadly.nights - 1-0
capwhanda - 1-0
david.golding - 1-0 [1 Clincher]
mmm.purr - 1-0
pain_purifies - 0-1
sgttedbuxton@sbcglobal.net - 0-1
Nice Racks (0-1 [2-5])
new.bies - 1-0 [1/1 Saves]
HHHMikeHHH - 1-0
Poopman_666 - 0-1
k.otor - 0-1
lvl_sweet_heart_lvl - 0-1 [0/1 Saves]
kingmatt_87 - 0-1
Sir_Shroom - 0-1
So, a no-show, and a pair of 5-2 wins on the night. One of them a 10-1 upset, the other a 7-2 upset. Power Rankings will be updated either tonight, Friday, or Saturday. Whenever I feel like it.
