ESPN's decline can be traced to journalists leaving and it becoming more about debates foolishness. Two highest paid employees are SAS and McAfee. Bob ley gone, Stuart Scott gone, sports reporters show gone. It's all rants and antics. PTI still holding it down and nfl live. Get up is fine

jbart65 said:

We are already seeing it with Pinoy players. Johann Chua just won $50,000 at a Duya event, and he and other Filipino players plan to play in the big Duya tourney with $750,000 in prize money this summer.

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what was first prize? and who won it

Not sure what the best way is to remove it. Others gave talked about ways in the past but I don't remember.
Not sure if you have a polisher or not, if so, I I just put mine in my polisher for awhile with out any cleaning solution to somewhat wear it off, then just played with them without cleaning them. It will eventually wear it off.
It may have been on Dr Dave's youtubes where he talked about getting it all off.
Maybe Rexus remembers where they talked about how to do it.

They could always put pool on the Ocho, I guess. It would be nice to see, but I don't think it's going to happen.

I think the best possibility for more pool exposure that I've seen would be to do it like Evo Sports is trying to do. Get more cameras in the halls that have bigger tournaments and then line up local or remote commentators for it.

Perhaps I missed it, but one thing I think Evo could improve upon would be to have a consolidated live stream list that would show anything running through their system at any given time, live or recorded previously. They do have their own YT channel, but it's not nearly all of the sites that have Evo installed.

Watching Skinny Bob's streaming shows a stark difference when they have a commentator on Friday nights vs. Saturday when they do not so I think decent commentators are a must.

Ultimately, I think it would take some or all of the major league organizations (APA, Matchroom, WNT, etc) to back something like Evo to push it to the heights it would need to get to.

I think an ultimate outcome for this could be something like a Firestick or Roku app that aggregates pool videos and streaming.

Sorry not for sale .

I don't need to watch this vid to know what went wrong. ESPN stopped televising pool!

penguin said:

Several WNT pros I have talked to have said that the undercutting is intentional.

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I doubt it. Very few players appear to have any real insight into what WNT does. Matchroom keeps things buttoned up. The event is also too small for Matchroom to care. Scheduling big events like the UK Open is a tough task.

In the case, small events like this will have to adjust. Global pool scheduling has become much more crowded, and not just because of MR-Predator competition.

The Ko brothers playing in China for the Duya Chinese 9 ball tour has opened the door to other top pros doing the same. Now MR and Predator both have to contend with these big Chinese events. Given the prize money, I'd expect more Asian players to play in China.

We are already seeing it with Pinoy players. Johann Chua just won $50,000 at a Duya event, and he and other Filipino players plan to play in the big Duya tourney with $750,000 in prize money this summer.