Probably more important: The official has to have the backing of management to squish the snails. I doubt that's the case.
I still have hope for chess clocks. In my experience, just having a clock at the table makes the snails move faster. And sometimes they just go away.
Even with all of that, 1-pckt takes a long time to play.
Room owners need to make money by having more players present at tournaments and spectators.
Unless you play this game watching it can be boring for spectators.
Could it be that tournament one pocket and gambler style between two players one pocket diverge to fill
the room owners needs?
There have been a few conversations I have had about this. One form would be like Straight Pool where you
can break make a ball and start running balls, the other that I've heard is to simply allow the games to go on as usual and
to have the players to race to a number of balls under the current rules.
Other deciding factors could come up like-- is this going to be rotating the break etc.
I am registered to play one this month, where Fargo and spots are being employed and I have no Fargo rating and there will be spots used, so there are a lot of things that could be done to bring the game into I guess you would call it,
the new age, where Pool Leagues are the
biggest action around. We need to bring folks into the game, because it's the best game there is.
This past weekend in my local room there were 192 players at a 7ft bar table event with 10's of thousands of dollars
on the line. That is a movement getting more attention than the older tours around here ever did.
Pool changes slow, but it does change.
Chess Clocks have gotten better and cheaper since I had a chess club.
