Canadian Amateur Championships

[robertmac]

Floyd won it. Terry's match is streaming right now.

Terry is down 5-1.

[lesedwards]

Floyd won it. Terry's match is streaming right now.

Terry is down 5-1.

Heading home you guys are on your own.

[robertmac]

Oh well more technical difficulties but its back on for now
and Terry is 5-2 down now.

[DandyA]

Oh well more technical difficulties and it could
be over before it is fixed as Terry is behind in
frame 7 and its almost over.

stream back working now ... think Terry must be down 2-5

[Byrom]

Only so much a guy can take

[DandyA]

Terry loses his semi-final 3-5 ... well done for getting that far

[robertmac]

It was 6-3 but yes he did really well.

Congrats Terry.

Final is saturday 1PM EST and should be good.

[mythman69]

Well done Terry !!!

[lesedwards]

Congrats Terry on a great tournament. Good luck in the Seniors tomorrow.

[itsnoteasy]

Well done Terry.

[ace man]

Great result. Couldn't ask for more.

[cyberheater]

Very well done Terry. I hope to hear you thoughts and reflections of the matches when you have a chance.

[itsnoteasy]

Very well done Terry. I hope to hear you thoughts and reflections of the matches when you have a chance.

+1 on that, I missed most of the semi, so would like to hear how you felt it went, must have thought you were in with a bit of a chance with the mini comeback to 5-3 if you had managed 5-4 maybe the pressure would have got to him.

[Wayne G]

Way to hang in there Terry. Great effort. Go get those Seniors.

[Terry Davidson]

Very well done Terry. I hope to hear you thoughts and reflections of the matches when you have a chance.

My thoughts and reflections on this tournament. I was beaten by a better player and lost my semi 6-3 to Alan Whitfield. Alan did play on the tour for a couple of seasons I believe but didn't have a lot of success. In the end unless you win every tournament you enter you will always get beat by a better player on the day.

My problem with the snooker that I had to get out of (I had 30 points when he laid the snooker) was I felt it was impossible to hit. The head referee told me afterwards it would have been possible with a 4-cushion approach however what he doesn't realize is that all the side cushions on these tables throw wide and the pink and blue were in my way. What made me angry was when I jawed the cueball and passed the red very close my opponent could have either potted the red and then black or else taken the black as a free ball and easily ran 2 blacks and maybe the colours.

This season I have lost 2 frames in matches where I was in an impossible snooker situation and I wonder what happened to the interpretation of the rule by the referee which is supposed to take into account the difficulty of the snooker, the conditions and the skill of the players. Here the call is always 'MUST HIT'. I have difficulty with the MISS rule and I think it should be changed as I feel there is no way a player should gain 30-40-50 points from one shot and win a frame. I think the maximum scoring shot should be 8 points in any situation (unless the player is obviously not trying to hit the object ball). This is especially true for amateur players where the table conditions sometimes makes it impossible to hit a snooker which could be hit on a pro table with proper cushions.

I was mad at the ref as I had just missed the red, passed by the red, and left my opponent an easy one or two blacks and the point differential at that time was he had 4 or 8 points to the good. With 2 blacks + yellow and green he would have won the frame but he chose to let me keep frustrating myself by trying to hit the snooker. There was no way 4 cushions would have worked on that table and the only way to hit it was twice across the table just missing the blue and using 2 side cushions which were throwing wide.

I am very happy with my performance and quite chuffed I reached the semis. The conditions were far from ideal though as 3 of the tables played very poorly and should have been ironed between matches but they didn't have an iron. Couple that with the fact all the tables had pretty severe rolls on them (for a match tables). As an example a dead weight brown to the yellow pocket on the table I played my 1/4's on would roll off 1.5in and a black to the middle would roll off over 2in at dead weight. Plus 3 of the tables had dodgy cushions.

As for my comments to j6 and vmax and in reply to Bob1...Although they put in smiley faces (at least vmax did) their comments were along the lines of 'armchair quarterbacks'. It's fine to sit on your computer and let the world and me know exactly what I was doing wrong but until you can do it yourself why not keep the negative comments to yourself or at least post up videos of yourself under the same conditions so I can get my own back!!!

After all, I am only human and I was trying my best to win and in fact I did manage to overcome all my faults and win some important matches. Amazing when you consider I have to wear orthopaedic support. contact lenses and hearing aids just to play snooker matches. BESIDES WHICH I AM NOT A PRO AND NEVER, EVER SAID I WAS AS GOOD AS A PRO. So gimme a break!

I apologize for the streaming as it would have been nice to have it working well but they fellow who was controlling it (Randall) had to stand in for a referee who took off in the middle of the tournament so he couldn't keep it up and running and couldn't post scores. It should be better today as he will be able to sit on it and nurse it back to health. This is all voluntary so I would like to thank everyone for their efforts.

Terry