World Games pool in Birmingham

The World Games decides to host a billiards event.
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891014+1 said:
Top pool and carom players, both men and women except for snooker. I don't get why only 3rd line snooker players go tho this event.
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The pro snooker organization, WPBSA/WSF, has all the top players. The amateur organization, IBSF, has the world-wide membership. They have decided not to cooperate with each other as of about four years ago. The WCBS had to decide which of the feuding parties would be the snooker member and the one with world-wide membership was chosen. The lack of top players at the World Games is very disappointing.

In 2017 in Poland Kyren Wilson won with Ali Carter second.
 
Vahmurka said:
Frankly, that's the weirdest front camera angle I've seen in billiards broadcasts.

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That camera angle makes the table look like it is wider at the back than the front. This is a result of having the camera back from the table about twice as far as it should have been. That put it at a very low angle and they had to zoom in to fill the frame.

There were cameras directly over the tables but perhaps they weren't used for the stream.
 
Bob Jewett said:
That camera angle makes the table look like it is wider at the back than the front. This is a result of having the camera back from the table about twice as far as it should have been. That put it at a very low angle and they had to zoom in to fill the frame.

There were cameras directly over the tables but perhaps they weren't used for the stream.
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They used the top down view on the stream. Are you at the event?
 
To no one's surprise, Filler wins the gold.
The three young men in the tourney did quite well-- Filler, 24, Pehlivanovic, 20, and Yapp, 26.
Along with Gorst at 22, these young studs are the champions of the next 10 to 20 years.
 
After this week of World Games 2022, I do not think pool should be attached at the hip with snooker and carom games under the heading of billiards. If this is a representation of what the Olympics will look like for snooker, pool will never, ever make the Olympic Games. At least pool attempted to send its best representatives of the sport to the World Games 2022.

They had a gymnastic anchor narrating the snooker match, and she didn't know squat about the game. At that point, I tuned out of the World Games 2022. I knew Filler would win it and figured I'd read all about it in the morning. I'm glad he won.

Pool is doomed with the current alphabet soup of organizations leading the way. Even Matchroom can't save pool. I see the writing on the wall.
 
JAM said:
After this week of World Games 2022, I do not think pool should be attached at the hip with snooker and carom games under the heading of billiards. If this is a representation of what the Olympics will look like for snooker, pool will never, ever make the Olympic Games. At least pool attempted to send its best representatives of the sport to the World Games 2022.

They had a gymnastic anchor narrating the snooker match, and she didn't know squat about the game. At that point, I tuned out of the World Games 2022. I knew Filler would win it and figured I'd read all about it in the morning. I'm glad he won.

Pool is doomed with the current alphabet soup of organizations leading the way. Even Matchroom can't save pool. I see the writing on the wall.
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I only watched a couple of the pool matches and didn't have any complaints about the broadcast content. Of course it was nowhere as good as what we see with routine pro streams. But the Olympics are a joke and a sham so I had low expectations for the event. Billiards next shot at the Olympics is 2036.

Stu convinced me that this process is helpful for the game generally in that it's an excuse for countries to invest money in pool. Without the kickbacks and politicking that goes on with the IOC and it's affiliated sports organization, we wouldn't have the great pool players we see from the developing world (including Sanjin who made it to the finals here).
 
kling&allen said:
I only watched a couple of the pool matches and didn't have any complaints about the broadcast content. Of course it was nowhere as good as what we see with routine pro streams. But the Olympics are a joke and a sham so I had low expectations for the event. Billiards next shot at the Olympics is 2036.

Stu convinced me that this process is helpful for the game generally in that it's an excuse for countries to invest money in pool. Without the kickbacks and politicking that goes on with the IOC and it's affiliated sports organization, we wouldn't have the great pool players we see from the developing world (including Sanjin who made it to the finals here).
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You think those pool organizations are helping American pool? I understand your thoughts, however, but the only people getting fat are the pool organizations. The sanctioning fees and country dollars do keep a company in Poland employed, however, paying them to give urine tests to pro players profiting less than $20,000 per annum. Where is the transparency? How much do those tests cost? Who's behind the pool organization curtain keeping tabs on the money flowing in and what it's being spent on?

I would venture to guess the pool organizations travel the world and eat filet mignon while pro players go to McDonald's, if they can afford it.

You and I will both be dead and pool still will not be in the Olympic Games. The pool organizations who get paid sanctioning fees from countries and others get a free ride to travel the world and eat cake while pool players, especially American pro players, are scrambling for crumbs.

Pool in the Olympics by these pool organizations? Never happen. I've seen the light after the World Games 2022.
 
JAM said:
You think those pool organizations are helping American pool? I understand your thoughts, however, but the only people getting fat are the pool organizations. The sanctioning fees and country dollars do keep a company in Poland employed, however, paying them to give urine tests to pro players profiting less than $20,000 per annum. Where is the transparency? How much do those tests cost? Who's behind the pool organization curtain keeping tabs on the money flowing in and what it's being spent on?

I'll would venture to guess the pool organizations travel the world and eat filet mignon while pro players go to McDonald's, if they can afford it.

You and I will both be dead and pool still will not be in the Olympic Games. The pool organizations who get paid sanctioning fees from countries and others get a free ride to travel and world and eat cake while pool players, especially American pro players, are scrambling for crumbs.

Pool in the Olympics by these pool organizations? Never happen. I've seen the light after the World Games 2022.
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No argument here. Don't forget that the WPA takes 5 percent of all the players winnings from each sanctioned event.

I don't think any of this benefits US pool, established international players, or even Matchroom or CSI.
 
The close ups of player faces were excessive. How many times do I need to see someone looking away from the table or looking straight at the show. If the World Games is to introduce pool, then the camera angles should reflect the mechanics from stance to stroke from front and back.

More commentary should be given to the stroke and shot selection as well as skill needed to pocket and where cue was hit on cueball.

However the camera cuts were overhead shot, zoom on player face and zoom on object balls. The zoom on object balls is like pocket cam it provides no observational benefit.
 
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