Facebook..........I don’t do Facebook......got a real web site for this?
Oh and as someone pointed out.....this has nothing to do with growing pool. Nothing.
Just another pool tournament idea.
Growing pool is getting new people to play pool.....not just another tournament idea.
As I keep saying, I welcome all devil's advocates and points of view, your responses often make me wonder if you've read ANY of the previous posts or original post at all to formulate an opinion or was it just assumptions from thin air?
The NBL pro tour formula is just the 1st step of MANY facets to address in moving forward to FIX what isn't working for our industry here in the US but DOES work in other billiard industries around the world. Someone else came up with "growing" pool. We ALREADY have over a million people in America that play pool & over 200,000 avid "pool players" that compete regularly but we barely reach out to 1% of them to be organized and unified under one umbrella entity representing or promoting all others in the United States. WE are ANYTHING BUT united.
FIRST, we have to create the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that up and coming youngsters in the game can aspire to.
THEN we can groom them properly for success in a self sustaining industry that actually has promise and a lucrative future to offer them.
We already have the BEF which does great things for the juniors however it is very difficult in the sense of inaccessibility as well as monetarily non feasible for juniors and their parents to get involved. Same goes for the women who until this year have several sotps once again on the WPBA tour. The NBL is creating the PBA Tour right away for men, women and juniors to have 4 big events a year they can all have a chance at cashing in.
With a network of 32 locations around the country, Mom & Dad can simply drive junior to a local stage 1 event and earn funding to the next big event the BEF orchestrates for them. Same as the pros and aspiring avid players. As of now, once a player turns 19, they have to chase 5th place in major events to break even on their venture - not very promising.
There is a whole lot more (too much to type) about programs in schools, after school programs, a ladder structure to welcome, train, promote and sponsor current and next generation players.
Please READ all posts, LISTEN to the video and THEN give your input. I'll be going live through Instagram next (another venue of communication to our youth) and Facebook next Wednesday at 8pm again to recap the pro tour structure and ease of accessibility, all industry leaders involved and so forth as well as the presentation, plans on gaining mainstream viewership, generating funds for the women, for the BEF, and others and so forth. The broadcasting technology being incorporated, the format of the stage 1 events and 4 quarterly events on the circuit, life necessities being worked on such as 401K's, dental, vision and a group health plan for all registered players at all levels, etc.
MORE THAN JUST TOURNAMENTS! Billiards Academies, 3 Divisions under Professionals, points systems, uniforms, television, etc.
To get the youth's attention, we must reach out to them through social media which is what they use; SnapChat mostly, then Instagram and even FACEBOOK (which is for "old people" now as my son tells me.)
For those that "don't do Facebook" but still want to magically reach out, connect with and entice the youth that DO, here is the live video uploaded to Youtube spoon fed to you with just one click of this link. :wink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIMngzpsEo
