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So, for several of you, professional status is based on skill level? That's a new one on me.

Yea, I read that, where does he say that it was an amateur tournament???

The commonly accepted definition of "amateur" in sports is one who doesn't compete for remuneration. No money. am·a·teur (ăm′ə-tûr′, -tər, -cho͝or′, -chər, -tyo͝or′) n. ... 2. Sports An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory...

WTF are you talking about? Where's the link to a page ont eh APT site that says anything about this tournament being for amateurs???

The word "amateur" appears only once in the entire APT website, in a news article referencing the Super Billiards Expo's Amateur Championship. That's it.

It's simple, just show me. I can't find it.

No, it's not! You can't just decide that a tournament is restricted to amateurs on your own, in your own mind, and then disparage the winners and the tournament organizers when the results don't match your notions. Whether a tournament is for amateurs is provable. So,put up or shut up!

Show me. I went to the Action Pool Tour web site and could find NO reference to the tournament, nor any of their tournaments, being amateur. Further, I found no eligibility requirement whatsoever regarding amateur versus professional status.

I don't play pool on that table, I play snooker! What I was thinking of was that, since it's a Brunswick Gold Crown 12' snooker table, which someone said was made for the Canadian market, I thought it might have been set up for American standard snooker balls, which are 2 1/8", not the English...

It's not an amateur tournament!!!

John Higgins won 87.5% of his frames (games) in the Player's Snooker Championship this past week. He defeated world's best Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final. I wouldn't say that wasn't a competition.

It works for snooker, which is orders of magnitude bigger than pool, in prize money, sponsorship money, fan attendance, etc., etc.

I think Predator should have followed snooker's lead on this, and had a dress code that included rules on sponsorship on their clothing. I don't see anything wrong with limiting it, but it should restrict who the sponsors can be. And I would expect Predator's "label" to be the most prominently...

I think that that's exactly why companies sponsor athletes! Why else?

The thread title didn't say that when I commented, it has been edited.

That's very foolish, small-minded on the part of Predator. Successful, large, sponsorship-funded events are always most successful with multiple sponsors, even competitors. Look at industry events led by large companies like Oracle, VM Ware, and so on - there are many, many sponsors, showing...

Let me be clear about what I was trying to say - saying that someone got a 147 implies that one got the maximum score in snooker. If you change the configuration of the game it's no longer valid. For example, why not just place a red and a black right in front of a pocket 15 times and then...

Is this snooker?

The reds weren't racked in a triangle shape, and it didn't start with a break-off; the reds were arranged in s a "T"-shaped pattern.

Nice, but that's not snooker, it's some other game they've invented played with snooker equipment.