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How does that work, @Lula, holding your right elbow with your left hand while playing FH counters? Are you trying to fix that elbow into position to engrain a technical adaptation?

Now don't get carried away. The modified rule states that opposite a black rubber "a bright colour clearly distinguishable from black and from the colours of the ball as defined in Law 2.3.3" is allowed. A colour, single. That leaves no room for rainbows, unicorn prints, paisley patterns, or...

Ni Xialian is out. End of an era?

That is actually an interesting question. There used to be rubbers that looked like they weren't dyed at all, they had a sort of brownish/yellow halftransparant hue, if I recall correctly. Coloured balls play worse; the dye affects the material there. There may be good quality orange ABS...

Exactly. That arbitrary restriction was silly and wrong, and is now lifted. We're back to normal, almost, without fussing over irrelevant details and discussions whether or not a particular shade of red befits the rulebook.

I know you are, and it still doesn't matter. Because the production cost really does not affect the market value. If you think about recuperating cost, well, your gold watch will get you just a bit more of your money back, certainly. That's still not very relevant; if you melt that Patek...

Looking at the results, I'm surprised to see the R128 matches getting decided in best of 3. That's a bit harsh, innit?

I actually have a few EXTREMELY RARE VINTAGE slabs of T05 lyin' around. Bred and fed on a fishscale only diet. Just sayin'.

Yes, it's yours. You persist in relating production cost to market value. There is no such relation. In your example, some materials are scarcer/more precious than others. But given that there's actually no relation between the functioning of a clock and the fact that it's made from...

Please don't! We have great things to look forward too, with matches played with material long ago abolished by a decision which we now in retrospect would really understand as a stupid one. We got over material and no longer need to panic into absurd color restrictions.

Yup, that's your fallacy right there. :-) Note that I've been playing T05 for a long time too. Without much wailing, or mourning, or gnashing of teeth.

No, no, no. A golden, high-precision mechanical watch built by an outstanding craftsman does not tell time better than a simple steel electronic quartz chronometer. And re-sell value is just the same thing. Over time things get more exclusive, not less. Whenever sent out east, I'm not...

Obscene pricepoints create a particular value. This is often marketed as "exclusive", which is in fact a suprisingly frank description: the value of an item to you is determined by the fact that you can afford it while others cannot. It's like this thing in which people eat gold-plated steak...

As will her opponents, taking away her entire advantage. I'm not convinced.

Assumptions, assumptions. Rubber isn’t red, or black, as it’s sapped from the rubber tree...

Mmmm. Not convinced. I meet quite a lot of twiddlers these days and can assure you it’s not looking at the oppo’s rubber when hitting that you go by. The sound, often, but in the end you read the flight of the ball.

Rainbow schmainbow, if it brings back the original 729 I’d be happy to accept that as collateral damage. And let’s see that two-color rule revoked. By now we should have gotten over the John Hilton shock and horror.

Being a shitty server I humbly bow my head and repeat the mantra: timing and whip. Timing and whip.

0. Thinking the path towards improvement has easy shortcuts

Mumble mumble placebo effect mumble.