The biggest change around here has been leagues I think. Everyone around here played acs and bca. Now 90% of league players are playing apa. That’s really obvious if you goto nationals. Acs is tiny doesn’t even fill one of the big rooms in Vegas. Apa takes up all the space the casino has and they now broke it into two different national events 6 months apart because they just couldn’t fit it all in that space any longer.
You’re not.. there is and it’s not close. 10 years ago the best players were showing up for local tournaments to make a couple 100 bucks on the weekend or state 9 ball tournaments trying to make ends meet . I haven’t seen that since before covid now. Things are trending up and I’m glad to see it. People forget it wasn’t long ago that if you won the us open you weren’t even sure you were going to get paid. it would take months before they got the actual checks. Happily that time is gone. Thank god for matchroom.
If you think that’s because of covid you were living in a good pool area. That happened 25 plus years ago in pa. All the pool halls that were here in pa and md before covid are still here after
but the world is a big place. so thing are different depending where you live I’m sure.
I can’t argue with him about custom cues. When I goto local leagues or nationals you just don’t see them like you used to. 9 out of 10 cues are something off the shelf like predator , cuetec, Viking etc. joss cues used to be big around here because we live so close to where they are made but now unless it’s someone playing over 60 that’s had the same cue forever you don’t see them. Even a lot of the old heads that played with them at least have put cf shafts on them. I’m not saying it’s a good or bad thing it just is. I stopped playing with customs simply because I play in a lot of bars and I was tired of worrying about what them being damaged. My predators I can snap in half and have another that plays just like it at my door tomorrow .
