MY EXPERIENCE AND MY OPINION ON THE CSI EXPO/BCA TOURNAMENTS

[Music] what's going on YouTube today's video is going to be my experience and my opinion about the CSI Expo for the CSI Expo I participated in three tournaments it was the BCA aall Scotch doubles the eightball singles and the team event the scotch doubles and the team event was in the silvers Division and my singles was in the gold division for the eightball scotch doubles I played with my partner and it was actually a good experience cuz we were in the silvers division it wasn't as stressful as I thought it would be I actually enjoyed it and I met a lot of people and a lot of pool players that was actually into pool for the singles that's where it was a little bit more stressful because in the golds division especially when I was playing um when you leave an Open Table your opponent can do a table run and when that opponent is breaking on you that opponent can also break and run on you for the team event it was my first time and overall first time going to Vegas and they told me it was a lot different because we did a round robin style meaning that we played five matches so it was a three-day event and you had to play different teams and the best teams would qualify to the next stage unfortunately we did not qualify to the next stage um we had some couple losses therefore we didn't have enough points to go to the next stage but overall The Experience itself was actually really good especially if you're a pool player and you like playing pool but here's the thing what I also think about um going to the Expo and my this is my opinion is the time and the money spent is it really worth going to the Expo to me it was not worth it because I could I could have spend all that money into some into something more productive I could actually did stuff in um my local po Hall and played in their tournaments if I wanted to compete or I could have just bought bought stuff and work on my uh projects such as if I will have a video coming up it's going to be on my CNC and and have more practice with friends just just having I did 11 days over there and I think in my opinion I think um I'm not going to do it again for next year you get some cool stuff like here's some of the stuff you get when you go to the BCA uh CSI Expo I'll give you some stickers some cards you can go around and get some things for stamps so you can you can get to the raffle the jam up was there especially Predator cuz it was a the Predator temp ball event was there and the Las Vegas open and you get a microfiber cloth and one carbon fiber shaft company if you give them the information they will give you a free glove so that's my opinion um it was good I enjoyed it but not worth going back and I can say I did it so here are some tricks and tips for you if you go if you want to go next year because they already have the dates if you go to playpool CSI is going to be play play csip pool.com you go to their homepage and it go scroll all the way down to the bottom I'll have this all on the link you will see the future schedules so February 19 to March 1st 2025 is going to be when it starts and if you also scroll on their homepage you will see the hotel reservations I did not stay at the r where it was hosted I stayed at the Hilton it was right beside Westgate uh Resort and and casino it was um a time share that my my sister used used and I want to thank my sister for letting me use her time share it was um it saves a lot of money cuz you're not actually paying for a hotel so if you also look at the the homepage it tells you the schedule of the events so it started off on the 21st of February and you'll have your fair single Fair match eight ball singles and your nine ball singles and then on the 22nd that's when I started playing cuz I arrived on the 21st and then on the 22nd I played Scotch double apall with my partner and that goes all the way to the 27th on Saturday the 24th of February that's when the singles eightball started and you have the senior eightball and the ladies single eightball and that's where you play your individual events and if you get knocked out on Monday you can do a second chance aall and then on Wednesday the 28th that's when we did the team events they also have ladies team event and they have the second chance on Friday on Friday itself off around 1:00 Las Vegas time that's when you know if you actually qualified to play for the next the next stage I did not play the nine ball teams and I did not also play any of the mini tournaments they had a lot of the mini tournaments a li Min tournaments were a single eliminations and I did not also play in the csis um events so when you go to the homepage you can see they have the dress codes the entry forms the tournament regulations and the players guide so it has a lot of information also it also tells you on the tournament division you can actually look your look up your opponent and you can look at the Fargo and see see where they stand and where you stand and how you can play you can play the person or the table and then they had the CSI division of course and of course your BCA so that tells you the teams and the individual the biggest thing also when you play in the teams U not the teams the singles this happened to one of our um our friends that went down there he went to the bside and they posted his schedule because once you once you finish your match you'll actually know when your next match is if you have it on the winner side the a side or you have on the loser side the B side it'll tell you exactly when you have to be you have to know and you have to be up to date onto this because what happened to him is he had a match scheduled for 9:00 p.m. on Las Vegas time and suddenly they moved it to a 5:00 pm match and unfortunately he didn't do a a uh uh screen capture where you can look at the page and then save it this is one of the biggest thing they told them you should saved it and you can contest it so that's one of the biggest advice I can give you or suggest for you guys to do is like once you get your matches is take a screenshot of it that will tell you what time you're playing what day you're playing and what tables you're playing because you they will every every time you're late it's a game it's a game penalty also when you play a little bit slower than normal cuz I admit I play a lot slower when I play eightball than rotation um it's a thinking game so you are allowed like 2 hours the ref will go around and look at your score sheet and see where you're at and the time is coming close and I have one of the videos where I did live and you can hear me saying hey it's a hill hill match my break because the ref said hey if we don't start the rack you guys are lagging for the wind so that's one of the things uh one of my friend also had to do a lag they extended the two hours they had a lag and unfortunately he lost on a lag his opponent actually lagged like perfect lagged where it was almost like Ballin hand on the rail so it's some of the experience that you'll have but if you're a fast player and your opponent is a fast player you want you won't be running into that but so some of the things um to look at you can also reserve the Rio Hotel on the web page and you can actually Reserve also Westgate but for all the stuff you get and all the things I have done especially like this is why I did all my um recording for live videos which helped a lot because um you'll see a lot of um tripods and you just put your phone and now I actually know how to do on YouTube horizontal not just vert and of course you must have a battery bank cuz your phone will die automatically cuz I had one video where my phone cuz my battery Bank wasn't charging my phone and just it just cut off but so here are some of the stuff as you can see on the table and I gave you some information on the BCA of the CSI Expo hopefully this video was informative and if you haven't already hit the Subscribe button leave a comment down down below and 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