No,the name is really "APA World Pool Championships",thats how it is promoted on APA website. And while anyone in the world can join APA league only 3 countries did so far. Hell even the meaning of APA which is "Americans poolplayers association" contradicts the word "World" in the name of such championships And some players really think these are legitimate World Championships which limits their view on the pool world drastically which is sad and counterproductive in marketing pro pool...
No,the name is really "APA World Pool Championships",thats how it is promoted on APA website. And while anyone in the world can join APA league only 3 countries did so far. Hell even the meaning of APA which is "Americans poolplayers association" contradicts the word "World" in the name of such championships And some players really think these are legitimate World Championships which limits their view on the pool world drastically which is sad and counterproductive in marketing pro pool...
4 countries?wow out of 195 countries in the world...thats one helluva subjective world btw USA,Canada,Japan aaaand....?which is the 4th? And while MLB has probably the highest salaries in baseball world (maybe Japan with their league can compete..?) so at least vast majority of the worlds best players are there hence "World Series" is the competiton of the best baseball players in the world APA surely doesnt fit that criteria..
I am also interested in hat the 4th country is.
No,the name is really "APA World Pool Championships",thats how it is promoted on APA website. And while anyone in the world can join APA league only 3 countries did so far. Hell even the meaning of APA which is "Americans poolplayers association" contradicts the word "World" in the name of such championships And some players really think these are legitimate World Championships which limits their view on the pool world drastically which is sad and counterproductive in marketing pro pool...
We used to have the world championships of ping pong in our basement nightly when we were 7,so I guess anything is possible.
We used to have the world championships of ping pong in our basement nightly when we were 7,so I guess anything is possible.
I agree with Marek.
Hype tends to devalue language...
..then we have to coin new words to say what we really mean.
What would you call it? It is not a National Tournament as other countries participate. Just APA Championships?
I do not believe it is hype.
If you want to get technical, the only sport I can think of which has an actual World Tournament is soccer. So if APA devalues the term "world", then so would basically every other time it is used in a sports context.
APA indeed is not available in my area,on the other hand I have other avenues to entertain my desire to compete in pool,Eurotour to name just one and why it bothers me? It just doesnt feel right to me to name something "World championships" when it is what it is. And like I said in my original post - i believe that APA does really good job bringing quite a bunch of players together to compete,its just that marketing which is totally ridiculous to me. On the other hand I am an European who happens to hate all kinds of marketing BS, so maybe its just me..
How many countries need to have participants before something is viewed as a world championship?
APA indeed is not available in my area,on the other hand I have other avenues to entertain my desire to compete in pool,Eurotour to name just one and why it bothers me? It just doesnt feel right to me to name something "World championships" when it is what it is. And like I said in my original post - i believe that APA does really good job bringing quite a bunch of players together to compete,its just that marketing which is totally ridiculous to me. On the other hand I am an European who happens to hate all kinds of marketing BS, so maybe its just me..