British 9 Ball Open - $250,000 Added!

Gremlin said:
Race2-9,

I am trying to make pool into something other than hour after hour of boreing 9-Ball. 10-Ball, single elimination, and two day tournaments are the answer.
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Grem I'm with ya all the way. I would just lengthen the races similar to tennis is my ideal event but you may have to make it 3 days playing 10 Ball race to 5, 3 out of 5 sets, single elimination. The match is longer for the better players to prove themselves and the races to 5 keep the pressure on the players and the excitement in it for the fans.

One more possible idea if you had to have a 3 or 4 day event would be preregistration with a definate cut off date so they could also do the draw earlier, send out match schedules ahead of time. Player "A" might not have to play on friday and could possibly save a day. Those mandatory players meeting the night before a tournament are a joke and have always cost me more money. And they never seemed mandatory for everyone.

Glad to see another event on the FL Pro Tour ($25,000 UPA event) and am wondering why they didn't stay with the 10 Ball theme. I'll guess the UPA wanted 9 ball instead. WHY? Couldn't they at least try to go with 10 Ball 1 time? Don't get me wrong I'm a member and appreciate what they're trying to do BUT I would just like to hear the reasoning they couldn't at least try 1 event in the middle of that beautiful schedule.

I'll be at 2 FL 10 Ball events in July but don't know about the 9 ball in May.
 
I don't know much about the details of the snooker organisation in the UK but the mens side seems to be sorting itself out now even though it sounds they may have really let the women down. As for the pool, 9 ball is a growing sport in the UK and given that I have lived overseas for the past few years I only know what I read. But from what I can tell some people are working hard and making great strides to promote the sport in the UK. There are two tours, with a total of over 20 ranking events with decent prize money. They are starting to hold big events like the recent APN and the (hopefully) to be annoced british open. They also have the match room events and have played a major part in the existence of the WPC. All this from a country where 9 ball has always been scoffed at by snooker players and even 8 ball players. There are relatively few 9 ball tables in many towns and cities (even though this seems to be changing fast).

AS for the tournaments structure, I agree that 9 ball isn't the perfect game but I still know little about 7 or 10 ball I'm afraid. I love 8 ball and straight pool but thats just me :-)

OK, you got me thinking and this would be my dream structure, actually I will post it in another thread as this is getting off topic. :)
 
There's a middle ground between single elimination and double elimination, and no less a legend than Jean Balukas has found it.

Me and all others who've played in Jean's tournaments in Brooklyn know that the races are shorter once you are on the loser's side. I've always liked that. I'd like to see the same in pro pool.

And the inequity of the loser side winner being on equal footing with the undefeated player is handled as follows: if the undefeated player wins the race in the final, they win the event. If the losers bracket champion wins the final, then there is a one rack playoff with the tournamnet title riding on it.
 
I know a few local players that play seriously and have pool as a partial income and they think single elimination is at least worth a try. The length of tournaments would be cut in half and would be much more TV friendly, let's face it pool has used double elimination for a long time and judging by where it's at right now it hasn't worked. Look at golf, tennis, poker, snooker, how many of them use double elimination?
 
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