What a pile of garbage this list is! It almost looks like it was randomly generated or pieced together by some who are out of touch with the realities of pool today.
Where's Diamond Billiards? They've added the WPA sanctioned Diamond 10 ball Open to what may be the best event of the year in American pool, namely the Derby city Classic. They've also revolutionized the game's equipment and brought the pool table itself to a previously unsurpassed level. Greg Sullivan's profound influence and continuing contributions to the sport were rightly celebrated when he earned entry to the BCA Hall of Fame last year.
Roy's Basement a powerbroker? They are an asset to pool but have little to do with more than a few players and have almost no say or influence in how our sport moves forward at the pro level. Roy's Basement a greater powerbroker than WPA? If this list was meant to be an exercise in comedy, mission accomplished.
The only thing they definitely got right is putting Matchroom #1, although a case can be made for APA as well for #1.
Seems quite obvious a number of the extremely limited number of voting members for this list of 15 most influential individuals or entities in the industry voted for themselves. It would’ve had a lot more legitimacy if they were not permitted to vote for themselves. Actually it would’ve had even more legitimacy if this poll was offered to all AZ billiards forum members for us to come up with our own lists - no politics involved! The only one we likely would have consensus on is the very first one - Matchroom.
it would then be heavily biased toward USA perspective though...Seems quite obvious a number of the extremely limited number of voting members for this list of 15 most influential individuals or entities in the industry voted for themselves. It would’ve had a lot more legitimacy if they were not permitted to vote for themselves. Actually it would’ve had even more legitimacy if this poll was offered to all AZ billiards forum members for us to come up with our own lists - no politics involved! The only one we likely would have consensus on is the very first one - Matchroom.
I think many of the regulars here from the US are pretty knowledgeable as to our worldly view of pool and who is important. Certainly in addition to Matchroom, others that come to mind outside of the US would be the EPBF, Ivan Simonis Inc, Miki/Mezz, Aramith, and Ronnie O’Sullivan if snooker is included.it would then be heavily biased toward USA perspective though...
OP is (allegedly) from Norway, so there's that...
...It would’ve had a lot more legitimacy if they were not permitted to vote for themselves.
What a pile of garbage this list is! It almost looks like it was randomly generated or pieced together by some who are out of touch with the realities of pool today.
Where's Diamond Billiards? They've added the WPA sanctioned Diamond 10 ball Open to what may be the best event of the year in American pool, namely the Derby city Classic. They've also revolutionized the game's equipment and brought the pool table itself to a previously unsurpassed level. Greg Sullivan's profound influence and continuing contributions to the sport were rightly celebrated when he earned entry to the BCA Hall of Fame last year.
Roy's Basement a powerbroker? They are an asset to pool but have little to do with more than a few players and have almost no say or influence in how our sport moves forward at the pro level. Roy's Basement a greater powerbroker than WPA? If this list was meant to be an exercise in comedy, mission accomplished.
The only thing they definitely got right is putting Matchroom #1, although a case can be made for APA as well for #1.
So it sounds like the 15 were pre-selected for all the voters to rank? Who preselected the top 15 and what was that based on? Why not let the voters write in their top 15 without being handed the list of 15 to choose from?www.poolspower15.com:
"Voters were given the following instructions; Vote for who you believe has had the most influence on pool in 2020, and rank them from 1 to 15.
They could not vote for themself if they were nominated.
The ballots were then run through a scoring system that takes into account the total number of votes, average placement, and frequency of votes."
So it sounds like the 15 were pre-selected for all the voters to rank? Who preselected the top 15 and what was that based on? Why not let the voters write in their top 15 without being handed the list of 15 to choose from?
I hear you, and if the point was to vote on who had the most influence on pool in the U.S. the outcome would probably have been somewhat different. The 12 voters were voting with worldwide influence in mind.