A pro organization should represent how many?

[Johnnyt]

The one thing I know for sure is that who ever they get or whoever puts the money up to start an org. and or natioal tour needs to have complete control and the final say. If some players don't want that then don't join. Most all players would be pulling in all directions...their own. If you trust him or her to run it, then let him or her run it. Johnnyt

 

[ajrack]

USA tour

In the snooker world, you can earn your way up to play with the "Big Dogs" by competeing in lower level tourneys , finding a sponsor, who can assist you getting to the higher levels of competition.

I think that the way to get a USA tour working, begin the lower level tourneys, with a 20$ entry for a 200$ first prize. after you cash in (?) events you must go into the next level of events, 40$ to earn 400$. ..and so on...
You can enter any level you wish.
If you cash in the higher level events, 300$ entry to win, say, 5000$ first...
you are in this level..."a Pro"
Obviously, there needs to be some agreement with the different tours thruout our country.

 

[9BJeff]

How many players should a pro organization represent? The PBTA once seriously considered having an entire tour with only 16 players.

Get all the league players in it. That's where the players are.

 

[unknownpro]

So, what pool discipline is going to be supported? I mean, there's only 9ball, 8ball, one pocket, straight, golf, snooker, cut throat......

Limiting to just one or two is also gonna limit those that are willing to join in.

I think there should be separate rankings for each of the games, if not separate groups.

 

[unknownpro]

In the snooker world, you can earn your way up to play with the "Big Dogs" by competeing in lower level tourneys , finding a sponsor, who can assist you getting to the higher levels of competition.

I think that the way to get a USA tour working, begin the lower level tourneys, with a 20$ entry for a 200$ first prize. after you cash in (?) events you must go into the next level of events, 40$ to earn 400$. ..and so on...
You can enter any level you wish.
If you cash in the higher level events, 300$ entry to win, say, 5000$ first...
you are in this level..."a Pro"
Obviously, there needs to be some agreement with the different tours thruout our country.

I don't think there is any value in separating tournament levels arbitrarily. All the events imo should give points according to a few factors, mainly added money. Professional is an arbitrary term. So I think we should consider all added money events professional and all entrants professional players if they want to join.

The sanctioning and points formulas should cover all the tours that want to be involved. The only time the rankings really matter is deciding who should get into a tournament that is going to fill up. Most tournaments, pro or otherwise, don't fill up. And in the first year of an organization there would be no real rankings to go by anyway, so I would think it should just be first come, first served for the first year.

A few years ago at least, on the tennis tour, a smaller tournament might have 56 players. They'd take the top 40, or 48 ranked players that entered by a certain date, and save 8 or 16 spots for qualifiers, and then give the 8 top seeds byes in the first round. Qualifiers had to play down to the number of qualifying spots on the weekend before.

They also had an entry fee of zero and free rooms and million dollar purses, and they sometimes get only one or two top ten players entering because they have multiple tournaments going on around the world at the same time.