Kind of dumb that the #1 rated player per Matchrooms ownranking system doesn’t even make the Reyes Cup. Just another data point that shows how dumb that ranking system really is.
I’d pick someone else over Sky due to his attitude towards practice and just overall commitment to the game these past few years. But it won’t be for Billy because he didn’t play in enough of the WNT ‘majors’ and is therefore disqualified from Mosconi consideration.
This sounds like a chicken or the egg situation. Does pool not have real stars because the players aren’t engaging enough or is it because people don’t care enough about pool to know who the top guys are? My money is on the latter.
This is not the reason.
The number 1 reason is that there is far more competition for people’s attention now than there was ~50 years ago when things like pool, bowling, etc were booming. And the simple truth is that pool hasn’t shown that it’s compelling enough to demand a large portion of the...
I think it’s dumb but it is what it is at this point. Emily and Matchroom are a known commodity at this point so wacky changes for the sake of change don’t surprise me anymore. Nothing is off limits to them it seems.
And for those saying this is a marketing ploy and that it’s working because...