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Hoang Sao and the Call-Shot Rule at the 10-Ball World Championship: Read the Table Before You Read the NameIn 10-ball, a ball can drop into the correct pocket and still not count. The...
Jimmy White Beats Stevens 6-5: The Short Format and the Closing Hole of a 64-Year-Old CueistOn the table at the 2026 International Championship qualifying round, Jimmy...
Six Rule Systems Under One Name: Why Billiards Data Cannot Fit in One TableI was sitting on the ground floor of a snooker club in south London on a...
Chalkgate in Da Nang: Shaw erases 12-rack deficit, Duong Quoc Hoang holds 60-56 leadTwo hundred people, a hall with the air conditioning switched off, and a cue...
Four Rule Systems Under One Label: Why Analyzing Billiards With a Single Set of Numbers Is Self-DeceptionOne night I reopened my billiards data folder and noticed half a dozen files...
Billiards Is Not One Sport: The Trap of a Shared NameAt a press briefing in London one November, a slogan lit up the big screen:...
The Hollow Skeleton: When a Complete Billiards Stat Sheet Says NothingIn a commentary box in Hanoi, someone handed me an A4 sheet printed edge to...
Sofia 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Tournaments and How European Disability Snooker Builds Its Own FoundationSofia 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Tournaments and How European Disability...
Billiards and the Data Void: When the Scoreboard Stops Being EnoughOn the evening of January 13, I sat in my office in east London, rewound a...
The Column Nobody Counts: When Safety Becomes the Forgotten Metric on the BaizeIn a semi-final stretched across multiple sessions, there was a moment the...
The Off-Axis Diamond on the Baize: How Elite Cueists Measure Space by the CentimetreIn billiards, there is a moment that television cameras almost always miss. I...
