Sunday, July 20, 2008
Week 2 MOTW: No-brainer.
I'm of course talking about Pool Legends and Devine Cuez, playing at the tail end of this week. They square off at 9PM on Thursday, following seven undercard bouts that may or may not be as entertaining. Pool Legends maybe had the more impressive 7-0 victory, being that we don't know much about Pool Loverz other than Straight Shots is probably the better team between them. Still, I can't remember any league beginning its first MLP season ever, without a single game in the loss column. MAYBE Unstoppable when they joined in the middle of Season 1, but that was strictly some of the best players in pool getting together, and calling themselves a league from everything I've heard about them.
Anyways, onto a preview of the match - I think Pool Legends will beat Devine Cuez. You're looking at a team anchored by Jason at the end of it, and guys like Kalpz, Matt, and co. along the way that you need to put your best players up against. They also play a very deliberate safety game, as a whole. Their goal is to bore you to death. Occasionally, they'll lose out to a lucky banger every now and then, but their general rule is to safety until they have a clear run, period. Because of this, they do tend to over-safety a bit as Ryan mentioned in his preview of this match, and that could lead to an unnecessary safety and thus, an unnecessary mistake. Devine Cuez will have two options: Wait out the storm and wait for that mistake, otherwise trying to match the play shot for shot, or to come out gunning and try to end the match quickly.
The one thing to watch, however, is a former Pool Legend in l3res.hubby, now playing for DC. No secret he'll want to play in this match, and of course both he and Jason know each other very well. A guy like uber.geeky can also put a real wrench in the plans of Pool Legends. God, these names have more periods than a women's health clinic.
Back to previews and predictions, I'm once again going against my colleague's Upset of the Week, and taking Pool Legends to come out on the winning side of a 4-3 score.
