You should visit the Midwest once in a while. Snooker was and still is popular here. Our Senior center has 2 snooker tables.
But 3C is popular in Europe as well. So there are 3 cue games vying for attention, to varying degrees depending on country. But both pro snooker AND pro 3C are a lot more solid, there, than pool.
And they are doing it without glue. Or some mega event center which will cost a fortune to build and equip and another fortune to pay the overhead. Or player ability tests to qualify.
Visit the midwest?....LMAO I've worked in every state there is on the road for 14 years buddy. Not only that, I delivered a Gabrielle 10' billiard table to the Carom Cafe in NY, to be set up by 2 korean installers. I watched them put I swear 300 staples down one side of the slate before I asked them if I could show them a better way, they agreed, and pulled all the staples out and let me show them my glue down system. To say the least, they were blow away. 4 months later Chad at Diamond asked me if I had a passport because THOSE same installers were requesting me to go to Korea and show them my system again before the world 3C was being held there....I turned their request down because j didn't have my glue at the time.
Do you know how many times a snooker cloth gets retrenched before it gets replaced because it can't be installed any tighter than push racks can hold it because the cloth will tear past the head of the rack? I installed a snooker cloth on Fatboys Riley 12' snooker table in Vegas that in 2 years never came lose. When Riley found out about that, the got a hold of Fatboy and wanted me to fly to England and show them my system as well, but same reason for not going, I didn't have my own glue. Well fast forward to today, billiards tables still use 1,000 staples to install the bed cloth, and require them to be pulled out as well, AND Snooker tables STILL require the bed cloths to be re-stretched 2-3 times before replacing it. Morel of the story is, the same problems that existed back then, still exist today, difference is, today I have my glue! Please don't claim to know this industry better than I do, I've spent the last 35 years of my life working to improve it, not looking at it from the outside!!