Freedom defeats Straight Shots 5-2 - If Pita, Gary and Craig can't help Straight Shots win, who can?
Sexy Poolerz defeats 8Ball Crushers 5-3 - Clearly they don't need Pete, Ste and Ketan to bring sexy back!
Pool Fiction defeats Streak Breakerz 5-0 - If only people knew Pool Fiction were only getting started..
Break and Run defeats Pool Dragonz 5-1 - It's one thing to lose a best of 3 finals after being up 1-0, but it's another to be crushed in the "revenge" match.
Extreme Cues defeats Latino Pool Legends 5-4 - They won 5-3 with 3 people, lose 5-4 with 4. Will we ever get to find out what happens with a full team?!
This weeks matches:
Tuesday @ 6pm - Streak Breakerz [1-1] @ Break and Run [1-1]
After being thumped by Pool Fiction, the road for Joe & co. does not get any easier. I know it's early, but they're tied for second in the conference, but have only had wins from TWO players. Either they'll get their act together and get wins from others, or just start falling down the ladder, and they'll need to get multiple players with wins this week otherwise they'll be going the wrong way in snakes and ladders. Break and Run followed up their defeat to Pool Fiction with a big win over the runners up from last season, and with the likely hood of Croz, Jordy, and new-guy Mina playing 11+ matches this season being quite high, Break and Run will certainly have a shot at repeating, if those players can play well. Unless Joe & co. have some tricks up their sleeves, Break and Run should have another easy match.
Prediction - 5-1 Break and Run.
Tuesday @ 7pm - Latin Pool Legends [1-1] @ Straight Shots [0-2]
Sometimes, less is more. More wins that is. So who will show this week? It's easy to assume that Daru & co. will have a full team now that PRO has been underway for some time now, and against SS, having 5 is always a good start. While Straight Shots are 0-2, you can't argue that they don't have a good enough team. A trio of Gary, Pita and Craig can easily be argued to be able to carry against any other team here, and all 3 need to be ready to go this week if they look to break out of their slump before falling into a hole in the highly competitive Atlantic Conference. With a man who has won 4 of the first 5 tournaments this season, I'm jumping on the Pita band-wagon and hoping he has enough teammates on the wagon to help him out this week.
Prediction - 5-3 Straight Shots
Wednesday @ 6pm - 8Ball Crushers [0-2] @ Extreme Cues [2-0]
Here we have two teams, who seem to be on opposite ends of what I had predicted. While it's early, 8BC have yet to live up to the expectations I thought they could achieve based on other interleagues. 8BC do have the talent to be a favorite for the 3 spot in the Pacific, especially with the pick up of JJ from, ironically, EC. Extreme Cues were supposed to be a good team, but after defeating LPL they top the Atlantic Conference after 2 weeks. Early? Quite. Once they play the likes of Pool Fiction and Break and Run, it will be interesting to see how good they actually are. That being said, it's been 2 weeks. Stop whining because you're not every ones pick to win it all. You earn that, don't ask for it. This week will be a close match, pull out a win and you may very well earn, just a little more respect.
Prediction - 5-3 Extreme Cues
Wednesday @ 7pm - Pool Dragonz [0-2] @ Sexy Poolerz [1-1]
At the start of the season, this week for Pool Dragonz would have been a sigh of relief, sadly, their tough schedule start to the season only continues. After big losses to LPL and BNR where they only recorded 2 wins, they may be playing a Sexy Poolerz team that are in the midst of hitting their stride. With Kev, Missy and Mike all having played, it will be something to look out for once Brice is able to get all 3 at the table in the same night. For Pool Dragonz, starting 0-3 after being in the finals last season is surprising to say the least. Nothing really changed from last season in reference to their line up, the only change has been DJ and his lack of pace to repeat his MVP-esque season. We all know Pom loves his new marbles, so DJ will need to get started on the repeat if he looks to keep his squad out of the cellar.
Prediction - 5-4 Sexy Poolerz
Thursday @ 7pm - Freedom [2-0] @ Pool Fiction [2-0]
While this match will certainly have all the fire works everyone wants following July 1st/July4th depending where you live, it wont be the fireworks that had these two teams screaming at each other like seasons past. The rivalry between these two sides have long faded from the bitching, and has turned into highly competitive matches. Freedom boasts a more talented roster this season with the additions of ex-PFNer's in Andy and Nish, but Pool Fiction just has more talent. With Chris' return, Pool Fiction brings back their solid ace that can always be counted on for when Cubby has to play and bangs like it's college. Trey has found his groove in interleagues and started this season off nicely, and with a background cast including Brian and Brent, it's hard to imagine it'd be legal if Pool Fiction brought it any more talent that once retired.. (Me? Foreshadow? Never..)
Prediction - 5-3 Pool Fiction
Best of luck to all teams this week and thank you for reading this garbage over 3000 times!
