Recent content by ScottW

Heard about your opening last week... will have to truck it out there sometime soon.

Yah, go APA or BCA. APA if you want to be more hands-off - let the local league operator handle things - or BCA if you want to run it yourself (or have a staffer run it). Once you figure out the route you're going to take, print up fliers about it and tack'em up around your room. Do this a few...

There's always some place around that has your stereotypical bar-style race-to-1 double-elim barbox tournament. And yes, one game isn't what the vast majority of US would consider to be a "real" tournament, but the vast majority of the folks who play in them aren't one of US, either. Don't...

Did you explain to this other fellow *why* you requested that he send the cue first? If someone made such a demand to me, without any sort of reason why, I'd be wary as well. Sounds to me like both of you are both being cautious.

The folks who win qualifiers get their airfare to the championship host city (Atlanta, the past couple of years at least) and lodging paid for. And no, they don't put you up at the Marriott Marquis. :P The past couple of years they've used a hotel a few miles from Mr. Cue's, with a shuttle...

25 years? Sounds like you guys started with a lot more than six chips... :P That does sound like a neat format, though. It certainly ensures that folks will play a decent variety of other players (as opposed to two folks, should they go two-and-out in a double elim format).

I know a guy in a chair who has a telescoping bridge - sorta like one of those golf-ball scoopers for when you drop one in the drink. It's got a regular bridge head on the end (so you can lay it flat, or up on one end). He has *no* troubles shooting with that thing *at all*. Something with...

Those sort of matches should be "whoever makes a ball first, wins" :P But anyhow... I can see getting bent over long league nights - but these are amateur leagues (especially APA). They are what they are. If anyone is really gets that worked up, chances are you're a better player than most of...

40 minutes? Is that *all*? I once watched a similar match take close to two hours. :(

I was going to bring this up as well - but in Gregg's case, they may not have a second table available for them to split *to*. Having two tables available per pair of teams can be huge.

The big problem here is shipping things to other parties, as opposed to just handing it to them. Anyone can say "I didn't get it" no matter what it is, and be lying. And there's not much one can do to call them on it or do anything about it. Shipping confirmation? "Oh I never got that, I didn't...

Eh it could be a move, but it could also be that they just want to put a little money on it. Some people will bet on anything, and playing a pool match and NOT betting on it could well be alien to them. *shrug* I'd deal with it on case-by-case basis, based on your opponent and what you know of...

Escrow isn't a pool-specific thing - there are tons of escrow services out there for all sorts of things. But, the vast majority do just what others have mentioned - they just handle both ends of the transaction, nothing more. Adding cue inspection/etc. to an escrow service, I wouldn't call it...

After all my gear was stolen a year ago, I had to kit out again. Ended up buying an older Runde-era Schon through a friend. Later that same day, while still at the pool room, a gal comes in with a few cues that she's looking to sell. One's an Espiritu, very pretty cue, with a cork wrap (which...

Sounds like you know some of the folks who play in those tournaments. Try *asking them*! Ask them why they play in those tournaments, but aren't coming out to the one you're trying to get going.