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Expertise
I have wide ranging knowledge of all the cue sports, with the exception of snooker. I can answer most questions related to playing any of the standard games such as straight pool (14.1 continuous) eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and 3 cushion billiards and the variations on these games. Questions welcomed regarding technique, strategy and rules, history of the sport, pool cues and tables in general, trick shots, the mental game, practice, practice drills, pool/billiards publications, and so on. I do not answer specific questions on what brand of pool table or cue to buy or related issues. I am a player and my expertise is not product comparison.

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I have been a dedicated player of pool and 3-cushion Billiards for many years. I have given lessons professionally and have run and participated in too many tournaments to name, including professional events such as the U.S. Open. I am also a cue collector and student of all aspects of the game.

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Pool/Billiards - double elimination format

Expert: Pool_Teacher - 10/23/2009

Question
hello sir... i have 20 players for our billiard tournament. They are requesting for a double elimination game. how can i make a chart or a format of 20 players? thank you very much

Answer
Hi Luis.

Please download this pdf file: http://www.playpool.com/anonftp/pub/tournament_charts/playpool32de.pdf and print out the 32 player double elimination chart. Once done, place byes as the opponents in the first twelve matches against twelve of your players, as randomly assigned (make sure you do it randomly; have players draw numbers from a hat for example). The remaining four matches of the first round will be played by 8 players; the other twelve who got byes simply graduate to the next level as wins, whle the byes are listed in the loser's bracket. Just follow the chart from there. If you need further explanation about assigning byes (if the concept is new to you), please read a few prior columns I wrote on the topic:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pool-Billiards-2283/pool-tournament.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pool-Billiards-2283/Filling-tournament-chart.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pool-Billiards-2283/2008/9/Pool-Tiebreaker.htm

Best of luck,

Pool Teacher

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