Would USA travel to Australia?

Tickets said:

Thanks again Pink Lady.

Vegas is coming around quickly. Still burning i cant go. The boys are very excited though.

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i'll tell you what -

you get w/ BFDLAD to round-up THE BEST BRITS,
then get w/ MARK GRIFFIN to put on the tourney,
and BRING ALL THAT YOU'VE GOT, AUSSIE,

and i might....just might....get my ass....on a damn plane.

(are you not a daddy yet???? tell her to HURRY UP! "pool", waits for no one!)
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Tickets said:

Well you would be very welcome.

Id be happy to be a tour guide.

6 weeks to go till the due date. getting very nervous now.

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good, cause we're staying with yáll if we come!

HEY - what's that big-ass BLUE can of beer w/ the kangaroo on it? (obviously, i don't drink BEER). my ex is the distributor here for it - and it's apparently KILLER. FYI, i had to SCHEDULE my cesaerean @ DEC 6, (as opposed to DEC 25), because of fricken beer/wine deliveries @ busy season. tell your wife & baby i said-so & get your ass to VEGAS...!

:wink:

PS - there's a way, to back-door Asian flights @ 50% cost. not that i handle them, cause my employer & reps do, but - if the flight ORIGINATES from Asia, then it's HALF of $2K. round trip.

Tickets said:

Mate they are deadly. But lazy. You've got to really upset them first.

You'll be right. Can't see you get bitten by a brown snake in the local pool room.

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Tickets,

David Reljic from Sidney is my friend.

measureman said:

Australia is just an over sized island. We can hook up a couple of US aircraft carriers and tow it to the US.

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Think not. Australia is almost as large as the United States.



6th largest country in the world.

FOSTER's! that's it!

apparently yáll are as big as us (US)? but i'm thinking that there are more of US, than AU? so yáll are gonna have to come here. if MARK GRIFFIN would CHANGE his tourneys back to MAY, then i could swim w/ you @ Riviera/Flamingo, as opposed to 118 degrees @ Rio....

PS - i HIGHLY recommend a C-section. for several reasons. (and, YOU don't need to be in the room)

I've been to Australia. I love the country and I love the people. The big problem as I see it is the travel time involved, even if you managed to find good flight deals. It's a full day of flying each way. That means a 7 day singles/team tournament would really be a 9 or 10 day chunk of time off of work. Even for me flying from Canada to Vegas, the flights are only about $500 max, and I can fly in the morning and be landed, checked in and hitting balls before supper time. It's just hard to compete with that.

We need more 'growth'.

I have spoken with Mark G and others about the prospect of this happening and the consensus is that without some growth in the Australian player base, competition regularity and industry here as a whole then it is unlikely to happen. At the time Mark was working towards the Qlympics as an alternative for US based players to attend. Both our countries are hampered by size and the Qlympic option would have serviced the East coast players who found price/travel restrictions for the Vegas tournament. I think that given the amount of players from Spain, Portugal, Germany and other Euro destinations that attend the BCA & VNEA events then it might be a cheaper option for the players to visit a major league event there before Australia gets a shot.

There is also the issue of certain parties in the industry here creating disharmony through their unscrupulous action and unwillingness to work amicably with other companies in the interest of furthering the game in Australia...or simply attempting to saturate and monopolize the tiny niche market that exists here. This however seems to be a popular theme in America and other areas as well :wink:

Don't be discouraged though because it is not entirely out of the question. 10 years ago the players travelling to USA from Oz consisted of people playing in a single NSW league and 3 or 4 extras from other parts. Now there are groups from South Australia, Victoria and Queensland that have leagues with winners travelling to Vegas and 2 league groups from NSW each with 25+ travellers.
As New Zealand is currently also experiencing some growth in the league side of things, we may well see a Pacific regional tournament that might be a more viable financial option for many players. If it grows regularly then I am sure we would get more than a few cue wielding travellers that would pencil it in on their calendars.

We all want to go to Vegas and I am sure the Americans would love to come here but the average pool player still has to dig deep for 10 days fun...with the added bonus of up to 25 hours travel each way including transfers :grin:
Then there's the question of how to get a fake spider or rubber snake into all their rooms to mess with their heads a little :rotflmao: