Well, it's not exactly cheap old school stuff.....You can get a lot of Revos and Cuetecs for the price of a Southwest or whatever insanely costly collectors cue these guys are using, not to speak of reasonably priced cues. Anyway, as you know, a good player can play with anything, and a bad player will mostly blame the equipment for his or her performance.
Everytime someone wins a tournament, there will be some guy thinking that surely, it must have been the laser cut tip, or the carbon shaft or whatever else that pro got handed to him some time in the past that won the tournament and not the guy actually holding that equipment and his years of training. Looking at AZB there will be such a thread quite frequently.
Because all those pros use those old school cues in Taiwan, they are popular even with not so good players, while where I play, every other guy has a Revo or Cuetec carbon. No cost is too high, apart from table time costs, it seems. In fact, the high price actually helps make them more popular. They must be good at that price, right?
It's almost become a joke. If you wanted to hustle someone here, you'd get a Revo, because everyone would think you couldn't play. (OK that may be an exaggeration, but there's some truth to it). Usually the players that struggle are the most eager to change something, and because people are generally lazy, they change the equipment instead of their technique. So you'll see tons of mediocre and bad players with Carbon cues, while the best (unless sponsored) often stick to what got them there, or constantly change without sticking really to anything.
Don't get me wrong, carbon is the future and it's here to stay. People will still suck or excell according to their talent and work ethic, with or without such a cue or a fancy collector cue.
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