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35/40 and outlasted Steve Markle discipline. Florian proved why in a discipline tiebreaker. he is the best at jump and masse and won both disciplines with a Day one ended the same way it perfect 40/40 in jump and 37/40 started, with Florian Kohler, the in masse. The end of the prelims number one-seeded player, and marked the next phase of the Brian Pauley, the number twotournament, the playoffs. The seeded player with only five points players were seeded based off between them. Abram Diaz was their prelim scores and put in a the first person outside of Florian single elimination bracket. The and Brian to win a discipline playoff format is like a game of medal. With the seeding so close, H.O.R.S.E. in basketball. Players day two would sure to prove most lag to start the match, with the suspenseful. winner determining who leads out which discipline. The matches Day two started off with the are made up of two parts: the round 4, the final round of the discipline round and the wild preliminaries. Round 4 has the card round. Players will alternate two fan-favorite disciplines in leading in each of the eight Jump and Masse. “This is where disciplines, with the opposing we make the cue ball cry,” as player having to duplicate the Jason Lynch likes to say. The top shot. After those eight shots, 3 scoring players were featured players have four shots they on the stream table. The top 3 can pick from anywhere in the players after day one were Florian 120-shot program. The only rule Kohler (201), Brian Pauley (196), is players can not duplicate a and Jason Lynch (164). All three discipline in their wildcard picks. started strong, but both Jason and Brian faltered in the masse There is usually a theme that
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materializes at these events. This event’s theme was rematches. The first round of the playoffs had two matches to get down to eight players for the quarterfinals. The stream table match saw the first of the rematches in Jimmy Glanville (8) vs. Andrew Sozio (9). These two players matched up at the 2022 WPA World Artistic Pool Championships, with Andrew winning that match. In the rematch, however, Jimmy Glanville pulled out the win this time. The second first-round match was the seven-seed Jamie Moody versus the ten-seed Cary “That Trickshot Guy” Wallace, with Jamie Moody advancing to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals kept up with the rematch theme with Jamie Moody (7) vs. Tim Chin (2). Jamie had not had any luck in matches against Tim in the past but finally upset Tim at this event, moving into the semifinals. The other rematch in the quarterfinal
