WPA will no longer ban players who join Matchroom
- Thread starter Roy Steffensen
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The Norwegian Pool Federation posted it on their facebook as soon as they got the pressrelease.
I also see that Windows Open posted it on their facebook-site.
I also see that Windows Open posted it on their facebook-site.
I have no clue. Went to the offical WPA FB-Page and they posted this press release officially.
Than he deleted his statement to this. He wrote "apparently FAKE NEWS"
I have asked Boyes to tell us what is fake about it then - does or does not WPA consider the WNT majors to be sanctioned events?
But no reply yet
But no reply yet
This is more fun than calling it a second round of investment or attempt to attract more countries to work through Saudi leadership.
As an America billiard pro and educator. How can the American community provide support for pros training in the US?
Other agencies I work with make sure someone can speak their language to provide assistance for family issues or legal or law enforcement issues.
What is great about the pool room is it has the family feel with the professional corporate management and its multi-generational, multi-disciplinary and values mobility within the sport. No one is limited to playing on a barbox.
9 foot tables are standard for competition and should be bought for home purposes. It allows pool fans to practice their bar management, hospitality management and pool game.
If US Congress was full of pool players, then it is a lot easier to find common ground on dividing issues. Everyone loves to see youth enjoy billiard competition or live billiard events. Their eyes light up at trickshots or pocketing the nineball, getting addicted and having fun being around senior citizens.
Playing pool is more fun than a job interview or book learning. Let Americans have bar room sports in college. Start will billiards because of the history. Stop the erasure of billiards from American culture.
New York City is the home to billiards, New Brunswick New Jersey is home to the supply chain to outsource billiards.
Congratulations Brunswick led the effort and look at it today. Billiard rights to play in other countries is starting, rules about being in bars are changing. Bars are safe and can be protected by athletic leagues.
As an America billiard pro and educator. How can the American community provide support for pros training in the US?
Other agencies I work with make sure someone can speak their language to provide assistance for family issues or legal or law enforcement issues.
What is great about the pool room is it has the family feel with the professional corporate management and its multi-generational, multi-disciplinary and values mobility within the sport. No one is limited to playing on a barbox.
9 foot tables are standard for competition and should be bought for home purposes. It allows pool fans to practice their bar management, hospitality management and pool game.
If US Congress was full of pool players, then it is a lot easier to find common ground on dividing issues. Everyone loves to see youth enjoy billiard competition or live billiard events. Their eyes light up at trickshots or pocketing the nineball, getting addicted and having fun being around senior citizens.
Playing pool is more fun than a job interview or book learning. Let Americans have bar room sports in college. Start will billiards because of the history. Stop the erasure of billiards from American culture.
New York City is the home to billiards, New Brunswick New Jersey is home to the supply chain to outsource billiards.
Congratulations Brunswick led the effort and look at it today. Billiard rights to play in other countries is starting, rules about being in bars are changing. Bars are safe and can be protected by athletic leagues.
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Atorontopoolplayer
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This was pretty predictable once all the top players told the WPA to stuff it
SlateMan
Registered
A confident smile and a huge set of checkbooks....
Just depends if WPA expects Matchroom to adhere to unjust political bans, botched WADA administration, IOC country of representation policies, and unwarranted referee protocols.
He's been pounding the WPA on social media for a while due to their initial stance on banning. I'm not sure why he's saying it is fake news, though. Maybe just having fun, me thinks.
The past 6 months, or however long it was, turned out to be a big jerk-off. Pardon the language.
wealmostlostdetroit
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Both sides suck and both sides are at fault for the current state of the game.
WPA fell asleep and didn't do enough for the sport for many decades. Pool did not grow as a sport, holy grail which is getting pool into the Olympics has never been further away, prize money wasn't getting better and pool players weren't taken care of. Plenty more minor issues too.
Matchroom is a private company that's looking to cash in on WPA's incompetence and basically privatise the sport. Generally some disruption is good for the growth but let's not kid ourselves: Matchroom Pool will cease to exist the moment they will feel they can't make money from it. For me, by default, this can't be the crown/governing organisation for our sport.
My grievances with Matchroom:
1) Pro pool is just a tiny part of the pool ecosystem and Matchroom have done very little for anyone outside the top50-ish players. They have completely ignored disabled players, women and largely juniors too. There has been zero investment into supporting the local coaches, organisations, even pool rooms. Spoke to someone who ran a WNT event last year in the USA and Matchroom's contribution is basically 0. WPA (or their subsidiary EPBF) has done wonderful things in Europe in terms of coaching, youth tournaments, etc. Just take a look at Germany or Poland's current and next generation.
2) Matchroom are far stronger on social media compared to WPA. Their videos/streams/shorts/interviews/whatever generate millions of clicks but not even one player has been paid a cent from his image rights. Must be the only professional sport where top pros don't get paid for image rights. It's a huge revenue stream for them and they're not sharing it even now (have seen WNT contract of top15 player).
3) Matchroom are ignoring all anti doping regulations on purpose. Probably because the standard of play is better if you allow players to dope but I think clean players deserve the playing field to be level. I know first hand that at least 5 players from Matchroom's top25 are using betablockers from WR3 onwards.
4) Their prize money has been shockingly low so far for what they're selling. How many players per WNT tournament are in the green after flights, hotels, food, etc? Maybe half a dozen. WPA has done even less on this front so maybe more of a general concern. Basically if you're a pro pool player neither side is really your friend. There's not gonna be a major pool tournament this year in any global cities, mostly it's just outskirts and less than ideal surroundings. Both sides happy to take the blood money and partner up with Qatar/Saudi Arabia if it means someone else paying the players and not them.
WPA fell asleep and didn't do enough for the sport for many decades. Pool did not grow as a sport, holy grail which is getting pool into the Olympics has never been further away, prize money wasn't getting better and pool players weren't taken care of. Plenty more minor issues too.
Matchroom is a private company that's looking to cash in on WPA's incompetence and basically privatise the sport. Generally some disruption is good for the growth but let's not kid ourselves: Matchroom Pool will cease to exist the moment they will feel they can't make money from it. For me, by default, this can't be the crown/governing organisation for our sport.
My grievances with Matchroom:
1) Pro pool is just a tiny part of the pool ecosystem and Matchroom have done very little for anyone outside the top50-ish players. They have completely ignored disabled players, women and largely juniors too. There has been zero investment into supporting the local coaches, organisations, even pool rooms. Spoke to someone who ran a WNT event last year in the USA and Matchroom's contribution is basically 0. WPA (or their subsidiary EPBF) has done wonderful things in Europe in terms of coaching, youth tournaments, etc. Just take a look at Germany or Poland's current and next generation.
2) Matchroom are far stronger on social media compared to WPA. Their videos/streams/shorts/interviews/whatever generate millions of clicks but not even one player has been paid a cent from his image rights. Must be the only professional sport where top pros don't get paid for image rights. It's a huge revenue stream for them and they're not sharing it even now (have seen WNT contract of top15 player).
3) Matchroom are ignoring all anti doping regulations on purpose. Probably because the standard of play is better if you allow players to dope but I think clean players deserve the playing field to be level. I know first hand that at least 5 players from Matchroom's top25 are using betablockers from WR3 onwards.
4) Their prize money has been shockingly low so far for what they're selling. How many players per WNT tournament are in the green after flights, hotels, food, etc? Maybe half a dozen. WPA has done even less on this front so maybe more of a general concern. Basically if you're a pro pool player neither side is really your friend. There's not gonna be a major pool tournament this year in any global cities, mostly it's just outskirts and less than ideal surroundings. Both sides happy to take the blood money and partner up with Qatar/Saudi Arabia if it means someone else paying the players and not them.
Definitely NOT fake (unless someone hacked the WPA website, and all they did was add this press release):
PRESS RELEASE: World Pool Association Moves to Protect Players
February 28, 2024, the WPA is excited to announce that it will treat the following tournaments as WPA sanctioned events: Premier League Pool World Pool Masters U.K. Open Pool Championship World Cup of Pool European Open Pool Championship U.S. Open Pool Championship Mosconi Cup What this...
wpapool.com
