The 2018 Pan America Cup has advanced to the final day. The event began on Friday in Asuncion, Paraguay and will conclude with the finals on Sunday.
In the Men’s singles event, Team USA participants were Yijun Feng and Kanak Jha. Feng had a tough draw on Friday in the group round where he faced Marcos Madrid (Mexico) and Brian Afanador (Puerto Rico), both of whom were seeded higher than Feng. Feng began the day with a win over Madrid (4-3). However, Feng then lost to Afanador (1-4). Afanador then lost to Madrid (2-4) to create a three-way tie. The tie was broken by winning percentage with Afanador winning with a 6-5 record (in games overall), Madrid finishing second with a 7-6 record, and Feng in third with a 5-7 record. Afanador advanced from the group into the Main Draw.
Kanak Jha was seeded into the Main Draw. His first match was Afanador on Saturday morning. Kanak won the match 4-2 (9, -12, -7, 6, 8, 10) to advance to the semifinals. He then faced Brazil’s Gustavo Tsuboi (World No. 54) Saturday evening. Tsuboi was too much for the young American, winning 4-0 (4, 8, 8, 4). Tsuboi will play Hugo Calderano in the finals on Sunday. Kanak Jha will face Paraguay’s Marcelo Aguirre for third place.
Canada was represented by Edward Ly and Marko Medjugorac. Both finished third in the first stage round robins and did not advance. The matches were competitive, but this will have to be chalked up as another valuable learning experience as they continue to develop.
Team USA’s Women were represented by Xinyue Wang and Wu Yue. Wang was third seed in her group, but won both matches to advance. She defeated Puerto Rico’s Melanie Diaz 4-3 and defeated Canada’s Alicia Cote 4-0. Wang then advanced to play top seeded Mo Zhang (Canada) where her run ended. Zhang over Wang 4-1.
Wu Yue was seeded into the Main Draw. She defeated Brazil’s Caroline Kumahara (4-1) to reach the semifinals. She then defeated Mexico’s Yadira Silva (4-2) to reach the finals. Wu will face Mo Zhang on Sunday evening for the Pan Am title.
Visit butterflyonline.com for updates throughout the finals on Sunday.
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The Google Sheets image takes you to a spreadsheet that gives the settings for each drill. While these won’t be the exact settings for the Control Panel on your robot, they will give you an idea of where to start, and you’ll need to adjust from there. At the bottom, we’ve included the ranges and defaults for the setting on a Prime so you can compare these to the ranges and defaults on your own robot. In general, default settings should give you a similar ball regardless of what model you have. If a drill has a change of speed, spin, or trajectory, you will be unable to replicate that drill on a Basic or Start model.
Amicus Prime owners, save these drills to your device via the following steps:
Click the Drill image below to download the file to your tablet, cell phone or other device that has the Amicus app on it.
Open that file and a window will appear in the Amicus app to confirm you want to import those drills. Tap Import to add the drills to the Exercise List.
You can then play those drills just like any other drill in the Exercise List.
Tip – After importing the drills from a Fethomania Session, tap on the drill description to reveal Stefan’s technique pointers for that drill!
Amicus Prime owners, if you want a video of a Fethomania drill, you will need to manually link the video for a particular Fethomania drill with the following steps:
Download the video to the device that contains the Amicus app (probably to the Downloads folder).
Open the Amicus app on that device.
Select the matching drill in the Exercise List.
Tap on the Drill Description. The Set Exercise Properties popup window will appear.
Tap on Select Video button at the bottom of that window. Then navigate to where the video is located in the file directory and select that video.
Tap Save at bottom right of the popup window, Save at the top right of the main window, then Save in the resulting popup window.
Tap the Drill Description again and the title of the video should now appear in parentheses after Select Video.
To play the video, tap the Play Video button on the Play Exercise screen.