
Nine Worlds: Inside Colin Cummings' Unbeaten Mind
The Hyatt Regency ballroom in Baytown, Texas goes quiet in a way that feels wrong for a room this size. Two hundred people holding their breath while a 25-year-old from Honolulu lines up a center-drift sequence that he's run ten thousand times in a converted garage. Colin Cummings doesn't look at the puck when he shoots. He looks at his opponent's mallet — a tell he discovered watching tape of his own losses from 2018. "The moment you watch the puck," he says, settling into a folding chair with the quiet authority of someone who has won nine times and plans to make it ten, "you've already lost the point. You're reacting to physics. I want to be reacting to...






