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APA Championships to Feature DIAMOND Pool Tables

Beginning in 2023, APA's four major championships - the Poolplayer Championships, the Junior Championships, the U.S. Amateur Championship and the World Pool Championships will feature DIAMOND tables.
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APA and DIAMOND Billiard Products are teaming up once again to bring Poolplayer Nation what they’ve been longing for.

Beginning in 2023, APA’s four major championships – the Poolplayer Championships, the Junior Championships, the U.S. Amateur Championship and the World Pool Championships will feature DIAMOND tables. The APA Championships held in Las Vegas featured DIAMOND tables for a short stint in the early 2000s.

The Junior Championships, the Poolplayer Championships and the World Pool Championships will feature the DIAMOND “League Cut” tables, and the U.S. Amateur Championship will feature the DIAMOND 9-foot Pro-Am tables.

“This partnership has been a long time coming, and we couldn’t be more excited to reunite with our friends at DIAMOND. The quality of their tables is second to none,” said APA President Greg Fletcher.

DIAMOND is now the “Official Pool Table of the APA and APA Championships” and will supply more than 300 of their tables for events like the APA World Pool Championships, certified by Guinness Records as the World’s Largest Pool Tournament.

“We’re excited to work with the largest pool league organization in the world. APA is the gold-standard for leagues and tournaments, and we believe the players are going to love competing on our tables,” said Chad Scharlow, Vice President of DIAMOND.
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Interesting move from APA and Diamond after CSI jumped ship to the new Predator tables.
 
This seems like a no brained for both sides.

I’ll be interested to see how the predator tables play when I’m in Vegas for the USAPL national championship in February. Would rather have them stuck with diamond but I’m not surprised.
 
Do most of the places that host APA in areas other than here have diamond tables? Where I'm at, it's almost all valley tables. I'd say 2 places out of 20 or 25 have diamonds.

It seems good for diamond if they can replace some valleys. For players playing on valleys every week, it seems like a bad idea.
 
DryFlyTrout said:
Do most of the places that host APA in areas other than here have diamond tables? Where I'm at, it's almost all valley tables. I'd say 2 places out of 20 or 25 have diamonds.

It seems good for diamond if they can replace some valleys. For players playing on valleys every week, it seems like a bad idea.
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I went to the nationals to hang out a few years ago. I would say most of the people I talked to or played with said they had Diamonds where they lived. Around here most valleys disappeared 5-10 years ago.
 
couldnthinkof01 said:
Wth are you on about. Players now get to play on Diamonds at the Championship. I'll bet those who play on Diamonds at their home bars are dancing a jig of epic proportion.
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Diamond & APA have agreement, contract, or partnership.

You so ignorant to thing no 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵, is involved.

If you do your a CRETIN.🤯
 
couldnthinkof01 said:
They should have a burning man style super pool table fire with all valley bar tables.
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They are indestructible.

The fire would burn, the Valleys would survive.

There is, at the time of this post, some Valley out in a strip club somewhere, covered in beer stains and *god knows what else* that remains laser level and ready for another 35 years of whatever you got to throw at it.

The Toyota Hilux of pool tables.
 
DryFlyTrout said:
Do most of the places that host APA in areas other than here have diamond tables? Where I'm at, it's almost all valley tables. I'd say 2 places out of 20 or 25 have diamonds.

It seems good for diamond if they can replace some valleys. For players playing on valleys every week, it seems like a bad idea.
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We only have one bar who does
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Diamond & APA have agreement, contract, or partnership.

You so ignorant to thing no 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵, is involved.

If you do your a CRETIN.🤯
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So you think they are 1000 tables for free. The money changing hands is going to diamond for rental of the tables Not the other way around. The players in the apa are all something your not.. happy to play the game and not worried about the money lol if your an amateur playing pool for some kind of financial gain your playing it for the wrong reason
 
In the bars around my area, and in the leagues that are active, only one location has a Diamond table. It's faster, with less forgiving pockets, and the two teams that have that as their "home" location usually finish near the top each session. The rest of the locations have either Valley or Great American tables. Our Tri-cups and National Qualifiers are played at locations that have all Diamonds though.

Just thinking out loud here, but if most of the teams at APA nationals say they have Diamonds back home, maybe that gives them a leg-up when it comes to Tri-cups and National Qualifiers, especially against teams used to playing on something other than diamonds?
 
trob said:
So you think they are 1000 tables for free. The money changing hands is going to diamond for rental of the tables Not the other way around. The players in the apa are all something your not.. happy to play the game and not worried about the money lol if your an amateur playing pool for some kind of financial gain your playing it for the wrong reason
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The APA is a damn Joke
 
Rickhem said:
In the bars around my area, and in the leagues that are active, only one location has a Diamond table. It's faster, with less forgiving pockets, and the two teams that have that as their "home" location usually finish near the top each session. The rest of the locations have either Valley or Great American tables. Our Tri-cups and National Qualifiers are played at locations that have all Diamonds though.

Just thinking out loud here, but if most of the teams at APA nationals say they have Diamonds back home, maybe that gives them a leg-up when it comes to Tri-cups and National Qualifiers, especially against teams used to playing on something other than diamonds?
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A few years ago, when I played Masters, we played on 9 foot Diamonds. Tough bastards when going from 7 footers. At least until you adjusted. The Masters team that went to Vegas that year had to play on Valley 7 footers. I thought they would dominate. Didn’t turn out that way. Regardless of equipment, you still have to pot balls.
 
Rickhem said:
In the bars around my area, and in the leagues that are active, only one location has a Diamond table. It's faster, with less forgiving pockets, and the two teams that have that as their "home" location usually finish near the top each session. The rest of the locations have either Valley or Great American tables. Our Tri-cups and National Qualifiers are played at locations that have all Diamonds though.

Just thinking out loud here, but if most of the teams at APA nationals say they have Diamonds back home, maybe that gives them a leg-up when it comes to Tri-cups and National Qualifiers, especially against teams used to playing on something other than diamonds?
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I think it does
 
Quesports said:
I applaud the choice by the APA ...

Now if they could only fix the handicap issues to accommodate 8's and 9's... As it is now very few teams want high ranking players.
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I doubt that they will because it's about catering to the lower handicaps which I understand as is their bread and butter.
 
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