mdc said:

I live in San Antonio and have been planning to go since I first heard about it coming to Texas. I signed up for an email alert before the tickets went on sale and never received one. Now that they’re out, Sunday is completely sold out. I might still get tickets for Saturday I guess, it’s only about a 5 hour drive from here. Wish I could afford to go and stay for the whole thing.

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I went last year. The first couple days aren't anything special. Because of seeding it's just a litany of 9-1/9-2 matches. If I go again I'll start on day 3.

Bob Jewett said:

Just buy a game clock. They are made for the purpose. They are flexible. They don't require a special cue ball. They have been in use for time control for almost 150 years. And they have a lot of nice features the electronic cue ball does not have.

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Bob, I would but I haven’t found any that fits the bill. It has to be easily visible from 12-14 away for a 9’ table player and chess clocks and the like don’t fit the bill. Gosh, I would have thought APA and BCA would have adopted this by now which would have sparked demand to build a shot clock for pool players. Lazy or slow players are really intolerable annoyances, IMO.

I’d spend $200 for a clock that can be easily seen while standing at the pool table. It would be great if it could be activated by a remote so it could be activated manually by the returning player when he/she returns to their seat.

Slow play is infuriating, especially after your opponent contemplates and studied the shot and then they miss badly.
OMG, just shoot the damn shot when you ultimately miss it badly because you “misjudged” it after taking all that time.

The 14.1 scoring system doesn’t exist in today’s modern pool room. We still use coins advancing on the diamonds on
the rails to keep score in a race. That doesn’t work with straight pool sand so I bought different portable score keepers.

None of them were the design I would have used but I was a buyer, not the builder. Then I found simplicity in a design
that fits the bill perfectly. IMO, a nice shot clock is worth a couple hundred bucks to me if it had the features I wanted.

Bavafongoul said:

I know…..and slow play really needs a cure which this clock can achieve. As far as the cue ball, I do hope you’ll recall I am one of your biggest fans and have said DigiBall is the best thing that happened for pool since chalk. I wasn’t part of the testers evaluating DigiBall but I boasted about all it offers to improve one’s pool skills. Meanwhile, slow play is a problem of its own and a countdown clock like this definitely helps improve the overall slow pace of play which badly needs to change.

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Thanks for the kind words! I’ve changed features based on your advice before.