THE organizers of the World Pool Championships were getting worried a day before the final.
The reason? Players in the TV Table 1 were using the soft break to perfection and Yen Makabenta, the president of Raya Sports, didn’t want the final to be a boring and predictable affair.
The soft break tends to result to an easy and sometimes similar layout every break.
Short of banning the softbreak—which according to Ted Lerner, one of the commentators of the event, the World Pool Association is considering— Makabenta suggested on switching tables.
Lerner reported in a blog for the World Pool Championships that he told Makabenta that he noticed that the soft break didn’t work on the TV Table 2. So the night before the finals, they switched tables and informed the two players.
Aside from the switch, the lights at the TV Table was not turned on some two hours before the event, while the air conditioning at the Araneta Coliseum was turned on at the last possible moment, hoping the soft break won’t make a comeback. (ML)
