It's #MosconiCup time again and this year it's being held in Alexandra Palace. A bit of a step up from York Hall where we went to watch the annual tournament a couple of times many years ago.
Europe certainly have had the beating of America in this over the last few years but a couple of rookies compared to all veterans in Team USA might make for a closer contest.
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In from too many long disco songs at the pub and one slightly TMI confession from the barmaid who'd clearly had a few, but a lovely evening. US Open 9-Ball pool final on and it's America versus America. We'd like America to win this one, but more specifically Shane Van Boening as he always comes across as a decent bloke. Not looking good for him, though.
13-12 win to Gorst over Filler. Great contest, but felt that Filler had a couple of periods where he threw games away. Never ceases to surprise me just how generally slow the players are these days, though. Years ago we sat a few metres away from Earl Strickland running a rack and he only stopped moving while waiting for the cue ball to get around to where he was waiting for it on the next shot.
Pretty sure that the Venn diagram intersection of "Mastodon Users" and "People who like to watch 9-Ball Pool" contains me and maybe two other people who never post, but you know what, I'm going to share something anyway. Currently watching the World Pool Masters final and Germany's Joshua Filler is making some great shots like this jump, 6-ball bank, and pot of the 9-ball.
Video brutally stolen from Matchroom Sports on That Other Site.
Quick search to see if anyone's watching the #MosconiCup and, nope. Just me a year ago, and likely just me this year too. A lone, annual 9-ball pool competition fan on this big, wide Fediverse.
US Open Pool Final coming to an end soon - possibly - with Ko Ping Chung on the hill now, 12-6 up. We've just seen that the trophy is in the shape of the contiguous states of America. I like a trophy that says "Yeah, this is an American trophy! A pre-1959 American trophy! Fuck you Alaska and Hawaii!"
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