Cornhole vs Pool

[FeelDaShot]

I posted this idea a couple of years ago, but pool could take off with the masses, but everything has to come together with perfect timing and a lot of luck...just like MMA. I have been a huge MMA fan since 1994. I would order the early PPV's and my friends would come and watch, but never got personally invested in it. Fast forward 20 years and the UFC is a billion dollar company with hundreds of fighters under contract, an ESPN deal, and international stars making millions.

What made a fledgling fight company into a billion dollar business? An obscure cable channel called spike tv and a reality based show called the ultimate fighter. UFC President Dana White has said this may times himself.

Now imagine this same scenario applied to pool.

Take US players ranked 20-40 Fargo rate, recruit Earl and say Johnny Archer as coaches, or maybe Dennis Hatch for potential conflict, and have them schoolyard pick a team of 10.

Put the 20 players in a vegas mansion with several pool tables and unlimited alcohol. Of course you would have producers behind the scenes driving the drama and conflict... a drunken fistfight every couple of weeks would work wonders for ratings.

Each week you have training montages of each coach working with their players and the players would of course get camera time to tell life stories and their struggles trying to make it as pool players. At the end of each episode you have an elimination match between the two teams. Of course creative editing would be required as you couldn't show an entire match. Just the remarkable shots and crazy misses.

When it is down to the Semifinals, piggyback the matches with a big pro tourney such as mosconi cup. Boom.

UFC just happened to strike gold with characters such as Chris Leben and Diego Sanchez and then a final fight for the ages with Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonner. Maybe pool could do the same.

I like this idea a lot. I hear a lot of people complaining about the need to "clean up pool". I think the dirty side of pool is fascinating and attractive to a large audience. Embracing the dirty side might not be a bad idea.

The pool world is full of degenerate loud mouth gamblers (Scooter, Deathball, Russian Kenny, Buffalo, etc.). Round up 10 of them and give them each a few grand to gamble with. Get them drunk and turn them loose. You can even show the financial status of each player at the end of each episode. If you go broke you go home.

This would certainly draw attention.

 

[logical]

A "reality" TV show where everybody fights all the time was a great way to promote fighting.

That doesn't in my mind say its therefore a great way to promote pool. Give 25 guys each 40 grand and lock them up gambling for 2 weeks. One show a night shows an hour of the days highlights and biggest money games. Biggest bankroll only on the last day keeps his money plus the bottom 20 players bankrolls and gets a shot to run out a 9 ball rack each for each of the rest of the money starting with 5th place roll. Fail to run out, game over. Run them and move on to 4th place money and so on..so all told a shot at a million.

I just need to figure out where the million comes from.

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[one stroke]

Put on a corn hole tournament next to the MC arena and it will dwarf it in spectators simply because so many more play it
In one event it drew more viewers than , a MLB game , a WNBA game or the final stage of the Tour de France ,
This yr on 4th of july was viewed by 500k , the shot of the yr was viewed by 1.2 million with in 8 hrs on social media
last yr it paid out it paid out 250k they look to pay out over 1m as its expanding world wide
Turn on pool in most house holds during a party and your lucky to get much more than the person who turned it on , put on corn hole you get a room full

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