Looks like brand protection to me. I suppose it applies to the events Mark Griffin promotes. Is there some penalty specified elsewhere in the document?
With the “style” wording seems like it could go either way. They don’t own the title “US Open” it’s US Open 9 ball.
Matchroom couldn’t give less of a dam about one pocket, 14.1 and banks.
This is smelling like the makings of some Colin Ponder AAU bullshit when he threatened shorter and prefontaine with being sanctioned as professionals if they went run in oulu instead of Helsinki…..they wanted to compete against the best competition to prep for the games but Ponder had extracted a 10k$ show up fee for the two runners…that got 3$ a day for food while Ponder drank wine and ate caviar.
all matchroom has to do is jelly up the WPA and have them sanction players. Many of the American pros probably wouldn’t care because we don’t travel internationally except for a select few. But the rest of the pool world would be, effectively owning their ability to compete….and making a hostile takeover of pro pool possibly complete….matchroom will be giving our dead beat of a parent the BCA orders soon enough.
Big sports in America and especially internationally is nothing but mafia. AAU, NCAA, FIFA….the IOC.
I love the worlds athletes but the games and these organizations have been corrupt for many years and it’s not a conspiracy theory fable.
Theoretically matchroom will do whatever they want, the wpa will let them because they have the money. The pros are and never have been together unionized as one to protect themselves…well the PPA happened and you know how that turned out lol.
The courts won’t help either there’s too many examples of the organizations shitting squarely on athletes and gaining no glimpse of anything righteous from the legal system.
Our athletes were technically clear to go compete in Moscow in 1980 during the Olympic boycott. The Carter administration then threatened revoking international passports to our athletes who wanted to go compete.
Case closed.
I’m not trying to say Matchroom is going to be bad for pool…but watch out cuz they are moving on us and gonna go 8 and out faster than most of us realize.
That’s the only Area JAM is not quite right on the independent contractor thing. We might not be employees but we fall under a governing body. All that has to happen is said governing body now demands sanction fees for those “styled” events…they get given the finger and thd WPA slams down the gavel in the players in retaliation.
It’s like the ESPN fiasco…we pissed them off they been laughing at us ever since. They don’t need us. The WPA and Matchroom will throw away as many players and people in the way to get what they seek, they will groom new ones among the herd and market them.
Shadows loom,
-Greyghost
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