It was a little like discovering that a group of your favorite musicians had decided to get their band back together and head out on the road again. It’s been nearly six years since Ozzy Reynolds turned his Action Pool Tour (APT) over to “Tiger” Baker and Kris Wylie and moved out to Las Vegas to become the owner and CEO of CueSports International. In the interim, the Action Pool Tour, under the leadership of Baker and Wylie, continued its regularly-scheduled series of events, while other Mid-Atlantic and Southern states-based pool tours emerged, which, inevitably, cut into the attendance figures of the APT. The group of regularly-competing APT members continued to appear, though not nearly as often as they had during Reynolds’ reign as the tour director, primarily because they had gained a much wider field of competition than was available during Reynolds’ reign as APT’s tour director. It’s the downside of normally healthy competition, in any endeavor, but it was balanced by the fact that while a lot of the original ‘band’ were competing in multiple other tours, Baker and Wylie succeeded in boosting general attendance on the APT by 120%. And then, COVID happened, which affected everybody.
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