Here's my prediction:
- These bigger tournaments will realize they need more "dead money" entrants to get the prize pool bigger.
- They'll slowly start introducing tiered entry fees based on Fargo ratings to entice the lower-rated players to come.
- They'll start offering reduced races to attract more players.
- Eventually they'll all be 600 and under events that sell out in 8 minutes.
- Top players will be hosed again.
- We here at AZB will see an increase in threads about sandbagging.
It depends on what you mean by top players. I have zero sympathy for the 650-750 players who bitch about capped tournaments and say things like “get better and practice” because lower players don’t want to play them even and then these same top players refuse to step up when open events come around and they are the ones who are underdogs.
What sucks is that there ARE a bunch of players 650-750 guys who do want to step up and play the pros. But without more of them willing to do so, the events can’t happen.
I'm thinking they are all overseas cues. But that doesn't mean they are no good. I believe the Helmstetter was probably made by a company in Japan. Not sure where the others were made but they show signs of overseas cues also.
Price wise... not junk but not over the top either.
Thanks I didn't think I was crazy cuz I used to talk to Bob all the time. If I remember he had some kind of a thing set up using carbon paper that would show exactly where the ball hit and how much it deflected. They would walk around the show and get everybody's cues that would be willing to allow them to be tested and show that the meucci had less deflection.
If I remember right though Bob's theory was a little different. He had a long taper and he said that what it would do is it would flex in the center while keeping the tip more online.
