Recent content by pongfugrasshopper

Technically 8 tournaments left, but in reality the opportunities are fewer. Feeder Cappadocia looks like Top 30 are not allowed in. Contender Rio De Janeiro and Contender Taiyuan are taking place at the same time and it looks like the JTTA has split up the JNT to fill both tournaments with...

True, but I do believe the World Cup is one of the tournaments that carries some weight in China's internal rankings so it'd be interesting to know how close FZD and ML are internally. Saudi Smash starts next week so we'll soon see what FZD's state is.

And now suddenly FZD is in trouble in the 2024 Race to Paris.

I would like to see greater granularity than that. Let's say for a QF or above match, if a player I wish to support is playing, if I can get an option of 4k60 with fallback to 1080p60 at worst, ad free, my choice of camera angles for $5 with at least 50% revenue going directly to the player, I...

Obligatory tournament selfie:

No choke today. LGY completely dominated Tomo in every facet of the game.

SYS, WMY, and CM are solid 1,2, and 3. Miwa's close, but CXT's results are pretty consistent (and even includes a win over WMY at the 2023 World Championship), and Hayata has dominated her. But just being where she's at is really amazing at 15 years old.

Making SF at World Cup is worth 525 points ( Ranking regulations page 7 ). Subtract current low of 105 pts for a net gain of 420 pts. Add 420 to her current 1327 yields her 1747 pts which puts Miwa at WR#8 just behind SYB.

Because the context of what I was saying was in regards to Hirano's ranking. She wouldn't be in the predicament that she is in now of trying to get her ranking up before the Olympics if she had performed better especially vs. non CNT. You know I'm a big supporter of Hirano as well, but I can't...

Although Mima is no longer at the top of the JNT, she's still good enough to beat Miu Hirano at the 2024 Singapore Smash and Bernie Szocs at the 2024 World Team Championship. Whether she decides to retire or not is up to her. I see no problem one way or the other. Her place in history is...

Face it, zeio. No one here on TTD is buying your Hayata is dumb and should retire narrative. Perhaps you'll have more luck on Tieba.

Hina Hayata is an escape artist. I don't know how she got out of that one. Very well played match from SYB, but Hayata really showed some mental toughness at the end.

You could sense it throughout the match that Miwa was going to win. WYD was struggling to keep up. Congratulations Miwa!

It's not sufficient that the ball falls downward to claim side. It does not have to jump up to be edge. The momentum of the ball is already downward so it can just nick the edge and still continue downward and just veer to the left which is what it appears to do in the slow motion video. The...

👀 I'm eyeing that Nittaku Hina Hayata H2 on weekly special 25% discount.