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ML and FZD were an untouchable duopoly for a while, getting each others’ back before (and duking it out between them in) finals. No more. Rating and seeding may play a part, but no streak is endless anyway and the wear of time is merciless.

Not so fast, oh hasty one. That boy still lives too.

Let's not jump to conclusions. Really. The boy lives, still.

So they should be, probably. I highly suspect that high-level statistical analysis would show a strong correlation between hoarding the table and winning the match. (Xu Xin and defenders exempted, maybe.)

Wow. Falck surprised me there.

The main question, to me, would be — why do you have a hard time there? A different rubber might not help you, I think. T05fx is amongst the easiest ones for opening up... A slower blade might help, but improving your basic technique is probably the first you should think of. It might be...

I could try to stall, but I somehow doubt that any CNT member will let me stall anything. 24 minutes is a long time to stall, if everything you do gets killed or spent at the 2nd ball already.

Are you pulling a Zeio here -- retire already, you're standing in the way of the younger, more promising players?

He did lack FH power and maybe still does, but to me that FH looked pretty much like work in progress for most of this year. In transition, under comstruction. For better or for worse, it doesn’t look solidified just yet, while TH has undergone substantial physical development. I’m not ready to...

I liked what I saw last year’s T2. Yes, the rules are different and might intoduce another level of tension. Let’s see. Will there be teams lead by star players again?

That's a year out, which is a very very long time. At this point I'm not even that certain that Tokyo 2020 will even happen. We lack the geopolitical stability that such confidence in a stable future requires, and we're trending downwards, not upwards there. That being said, a year is a very...

You actually have to wait a few decades before you can arrive a this conclusion. It's rare for a 16 year old to be a this level already. He's still developing (in many ways), and the simple fact that young players have to adapt to getting taller and heavier (which happens in spurts) more or...

Quality support or the lowest price? Pick one.

Poorly. We narrowly lost, with me unable to play due to injury - which might have cost us the match. I'll be going to the final, played tonight, as a spectator. With mixed feelings. Our victor blazed through the semifinal, and is playing the finals against a team that solidly beat our other...

I actually stopped doing that a couple of years ago. I recognize your remarks about discomfort and aggrevation, and I found the "crowd control" measures — security theatre, which aims to take the humanity (and the fight) out of you, browbeating you into submission to stupid, debasing and rigid...

They still travel by AIR, even though we're approaching the peak of the sixth (and largest ever in earth's history) mass extinction event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction)? Wow. :rolleyes:

Long Baby.

I would, if only out if curiosity, like to hit a few balls with T25. If only anybody used it, that would be possible. But I have yet to find anyone that does, and the national Butterfly shop has a lot of BTY gear to try — but not T25. It’s a nonstarter for that reason. Descriptions make it...

Maybe Wang Hao?

CM reigns.