Club Competition Round Robin 9 - Week 19

All 6 H2H matchups laid out in full (18 matches over 3 days)

Key individual storylines

🟢 Bruce — “steady king” label reinforced

• 7-2 across the period; lost only 2 of 9 matches (both to Sam, with 5/10 again a narrow 7-game 1-point loss)

• Bruce-Lucas 3-0, perfect control

• Only weakness signal: on 5/9, after a big 11-4 G1 win over Jack, he got rattled down the stretch and was reverse-swept 4-3 by Jack — a pattern of errors against patient opponents while ahead (already logged in the squad tracker)

🟢 Sam — the most dramatic overall reversal in form

• 5/8 0-3, all narrow 7-game losses → 5/10 flipped it to a 7-game win over Bruce + a clean win over Lucas

• 4 wins, 5 losses over 9 matches; still net negative on the total, but the trajectory is rising

• Sam-Bruce H2H was +1 Bruce cumulatively yesterday → today it’s level at 7-7, the strongest signal of Sam’s recovery in form

🟡 Lucas — mild downward performance, but with an anchor

• 4-5 over 9 matches; from 2nd on 5/8 → 3rd on both of the next two days

• Only stable advantage: Lucas-Jack 3-0, a clean sweep — his most dependable matchup in the dataset

• Edged out by Sam in 7 games on both 5/9 and 5/10, with closing-game scores of 14-16 / 11-13 / 7-11; clutch-point conversion is Lucas’s current bottleneck

🔴 Jack — still lower mid-pack, but a bright spot on 5/9

• 3-6 over 9 matches; 1 win on each of the 3 days

• Jack-Lucas is a black hole (0-3, swept), Jack-Bruce is even, Jack-Sam slightly in his favor (2-1)

• 5/9 lone highlight: a 7-game 4-3 win over Bruce, which triggered the “Bruce gets rattled into errors” analysis in the squad tracker, but he couldn’t replicate it on 5/10

Suggestions for upcoming training (for Coach Pei’s reference)

1. Lucas — fix the “losing key points” pattern: he can already drag matches against Sam to 7 games, but too many games are lost after a clear lead like 13-15 / 14-16 → dedicated drills on handling 9-9 / 10-10 game points

2. Sam — keep grinding on Bruce-style matchups: taking down Bruce on 5/10 is a good sign, but he’s still 1 win in 4 tries against Bruce (across all of May) → keep simulating Bruce-style pressure drills

3. Jack — solve the 0-3 Lucas black hole: Jack can beat Bruce and beat Sam, but just can’t make a dent in Lucas → first study Lucas’s specific game; this is the key weakness holding Jack’s ranking down

4. Bruce — closing-stage mentality training: melting down after an 11-4 lead on 5/9 is a new type of error beyond the baseline, worth simulating before matches — “how to stay composed while ahead”