This is what is wrong with professional pool today.
Here we have some of the top players in North America and they are playing an event that very few people have heard about.
Why wasn't this being promoted, streamed or even talked about.
Can anyone shed some light as to why this thing was kept so quiet and maybe get some suggestions as to how it becomes more public in the future.
Leagueguy[/QUOT
And here is another problem with people ASSUMING that something underhanded has taken place....the Border Battle was put together at the last minute because of program scheduling, not the fault of the promotors...believe me we would have loved to have had more time and bigger audience, but the reality was we didn't.....it was not streamed because TSN put up the money for the event to be AIRED on their HD channel in September (NETWORK PROGRAMMING) so why would they show it ahead of time!....In future people need to be careful in how they word messages such as this one, you never know if the sponsors are monitoring these types of forums, I know I would be if I were a sponsor, and BTW I was, Racktight was the official rack sponsor for the event, and we added CASH!...We are hoping that this will be an on going event, it's future is entirely in the hands of the fans!
Grace Nakamura
Grace,
I was in no way suggesting that there was anything underhanded going on. In fact the complete opposite.
There have been numerous threads recently about why the game can not become more mainstream and how we can fix that problem.
I was only trying to point out that if this type of an event could have been advertised better, there would have been a chance of very strong fan support behind it.
My question was why did it not happen and you answered that for me. I was not aware that it was done at the last minute and that it was taped for TV. I can now understand why it was not streamed and why it was not promoted as heavily as it maybe could have been.
There are many other large events that do not get any publicity or coverage and in my opinion that is bad for the growth of the professional game. I do think that there are ways that we can fix that problem but if no one asks the questions beginning with how or why then we will never be able to fix the problem
Again, no disrespect intended at all and in fact if you were involved with putting that event on at the last minute then kudos to you and the others involved. I am sure it was a great event and hopefully the pool community can promote the crap out of it next year.
Leagueguy
