NH Nonghyup Card TS Shampoo, thanks to the ‘red pepper fly’, 2nd place confirmed even following losing 0-4 to Wellbang Phoenix in the final match
▲ The postseason this season as well
Team members of the Blue One Angels cheer following beating Hana Card 4-3 on the 13th, leaving only two shots in the PS row. [PBA 제공]
Pro Billiards (PBA) Team League Blue One Angels bet on NH Nonghyup Card Green Force (hereinfollowing referred to as NH), thanks to the ‘active’ of TS Shampoo and Pura Chicken Heroes (hereinfollowing referred to as TS), the last remaining postseason (PS) I grabbed the ticket. It was a ‘thunderbolt’ to NH, who was hit with ‘red pepper powder’ by TS, but from the Blue One’s point of view, it was ‘a nose-punch’.
NH lost 3-4 to PS following a close match once morest TS in the final game on the 7th day of the 6th round held at the Sono Calm Goyang Hotel in Goyang, Gyeonggi on the 14th.
Initially, NH, which tied Blue One and SK Rent-A-Car with 11 wins in the second half of the league and went to the ‘three-way match’ to determine second place, SK Rent-a-Car lost 2-4 to Crown Haitai earlier and was eliminated first, and Blue One and the last multiplier paired up. Hana Card, who confirmed going to PS in the first season, and the team that takes one more win once morest TS are on the last train to PS.
TS is ‘red pepper powder bag’, NH is ‘flying thunderbolt’, and Blue One’s point of view is ‘don’t touch your nose’
▲ NH Nonghyup Card players anxiously watch the match of Nguyen Phuong Linh, the final runner of the TS Shampoo match on the 14th.
However, NH fell into the ‘trap of relative performance’. It was because of the rule that if the number of wins is the same, the opponent’s record in the latter league is considered. SK Rent-A-Car, which was thirteenth behind the other two teams in terms of opponents, lost 1-4 to Wellbang Phoenix with the final game left, so it was the first to miss the ‘tied line’ to PS. NH also fell into that trap.
NH, who was behind Blue One by 1 win and 2 losses in the opponent’s record, had to win unconditionally in the TS match that day and waited to see whether Blue One won or lost in the Welbang Phoenix match that followed. It became a form of dedicating the PS line to the blue one that entered the bloodless above.
After the match, NH team leader Jaeho Jo said, “The tremendous pressure of waiting for the results of Blue One even following winning was pressing on the entire team. Nguyen Phuong Linh (Vietnam), who lost to opponent captain Kim Jong-won in the last 7 sets, sat behind the table and cried.”
▲ TS Shampoo and Puradak players are happy following defeating the NH Nonghyup Card, which had been eager to go to PS on the 14th, by a score of 4-3.
“I had to play before the 5th set,” he said. The loss of Ma Min Cam (Vietnam) in the 3rd set, which was an ‘ace match’, was very regrettable,” he confessed.
Blue One, which fell in the lower half of the first season last season and took first place in the second half league, took the last train to PS and reached the championship match, and this season also put its name on PS. Although they were defeated 0-4 by Welbang Phoenix in the final game of the day, they confidently climbed to PS with 2nd place in the regular league, and waited patiently for the PO showdown with the winner of the semi-playoff (PO) between the winners of 3rd place Hana Card 1Q Pay and 4th place TS. done.
The semi-PO of the best of 3 system will be held on February 17th, and the PO of the best of 5 system will be held on February 18th and 19th at the Bitmaru Broadcasting Support Center in Goyang.
Reporter Choi Byeong-gyu