If the qualifiers are being run like they were last year, I am not surprised that you havent heard anything.
Odie Willet has to be the worst person in the world for trying to keep people happy and wanting to continue to support pool. Acted like a complete child during one of the qualifiers because people asked a few questions. With all of the other problems Ive heard, it seems like its time for other people to be running everything rather then the current board.
I don't know about round your way but here in BC I showed up and so did 17 other die hards, in spite of playing for "nothing"
If you accept a position on a board of an organization you accept the thankless responsibility of promoting and moving a sport forward, blaming the peasants for the kings failures is not how it goes. Build it and they will come $$$$$ otherwise...........
Grace,what should it take to get Odie's a$$ out of his position so you can replace him to better our favorite sport?If there is no qualifier means players have to pay their entry in full.If this happens i won't be surprise if nobody or not too many players will show up.This is really sad that a lot of us want to improve pool in this country but those people whose in the position to make this happen just failed us!
Grace,what should it take to get Odie's a$$ out of his position so you can replace him to better our favorite sport?If there is no qualifier means players have to pay their entry in full.If this happens i won't be surprise if nobody or not too many players will show up.This is really sad that a lot of us want to improve pool in this country but those people whose in the position to make this happen just failed us!
i dont see what the problem is if shes only taking the added money. even then its only half of it. if she went thru the trouble of organizing it and managing to find u.s. sponsors then she deserves something. i dont see anyone else bringing in sponsors right now.
Don't see problem, did she get voted in? If someone is there making money, they are not going to step aside and let someone else get it.
run qualifiers to make money? why not run qualifiers to qualify people. I think that is why not much gets done in Ontario. People are sitting back figuring ways to make money running something rather than holding qualifiers (only guessing).
The people that can make money here are, halls. Select 3 or 4 halls, get them to pay a membership to hold 16 qualifiers and have no buy-ins to the Canadians. Pay $30 for a computer program to run the draw and brackets(don't have to worry about a TD taking 20%), $50 entry for open players and $30 for others. Say 4 halls - 16 events would be 4 events each. have them pay $500 to hold events (covers all 4 events). Entry breakdown, $10 to fund (Canadian spots) $5 to hall, rest in prize money.
At the end of the year you would have $2000 from the halls.
40 players at $10 each is $400 per event - 16 events $6400
total would be $8400 to pay for spots.
Hold a provincial championship with spots
404 finals get spots etc.
Coop does a lot for pool here in NB and doesn't get money for doing it. He travels 4 hours or more puts in 12+ hours running the event etc. He gets nothing and we get canadian spots and a provincial tour to play every two weeks.
The biggest problem you guys have isn't Coop, it's that you don't have Coop in your province.
Don't see problem, did she get voted in? If someone is there making money, they are not going to step aside and let someone else get it.
You hit the nail on the head Jay! That is why we are going to have to suffer again this year and play on that Milliken cloth (not sure of the spelling, don't like the cloth). Odie is in business with them from what I understand and sells their cloth.
In the past I have been able to get Simonis for any event I organise, with no questions asked and have been nurturing an on going relationship with them for the last 10 years. The president (Ivan Lee)always takes my calls and just simply asks me, "what do you need?" 2 years ago when we had to use that cloth, Simonis was not even contacted to place a bid for the event after years of support, Odie just took it upon himself to go with Milliken.
I actually called Iven Lee personally to apologise for the OVERSIGHT, which is why he gave us Simonis last year. Unfortunatley we are stuck with Milliken again, and again I will have to apologisea for Odies's lack of professionalism and common sense.
well i was really only responding to ur post right above mine where it seems like u were voicing ur disapproval of her taking some of the added money from the sponsors. im just saying that if thats the case then to me at least, it's not a big deal since she's the one bringing the sponsors in. she's the one that will have to deal with them and be responsible to them if something goes wrong. so i dont see why she wouldnt get some of the sponsor money.
but as for what u just said, i do agree that if someone is already making money then they wouldnt be willing to step aside. but then again that's part of the problem.