Did the IPT finals make it to the mainstream news?

i210mfu said:
I did watch the live coverage and it was done really good. KT knows how to put up a show.
Eurosport is a free channel. The commercials I have seen have been : other sports coverages of Eurosport and some Time Life Homeshopping Country Music CD, games for mobile phones etc......(How on earth can someone listen to Hank Williams????)

What you have to think of is, that EUROSPORT is the channel that covers the professional Snooker over here(live). Snooker has a growing popularity here as a TV programm though the prize money there is on a decline... So a lot of people have been watching just for the fact that Ronnie O'Sullivan was playing ....he is a celebrity in Europe.

Eurosport is similar to ESPN in the US. I don't know if you consider ESPN big or small.

Anyway, I think the deal with Eurosport is the biggest achievment for the IPT and KT to make this whole thing going. Never before there has been a real chance to truely be a pool professional!!! Everybody interested in Pool Billiards should support this tour, regardless of KT's past or any other bull sh.. If one has a serious interest that pool should ever break out into the daylight of professional sports, this is the chance. It might be the only chance pool will ever get. Just my 2 cents

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Thanks for the reply........;)
 
BlowFish said:
Those links are all Philippine Daily Newspaper. Thank you for digging it. :)
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LOL. I'm sure that you're more proud of that being an accomplishment, media awareness/importance wise. Unfortunately, it's in the Philippines and the rest of the world ignores it.

Pool has the media's attention here now but it hasn't been always that way. The people involved in the sport worked on it for pool to be covered by the major dailies and network news.

Yes we do have great players but they won't become household names had the support cast not worked on marketing them to the common Filipino who doesn't really care that much for the sport or just plays casually. I, in my small way, was involved in it when I was thrown into it through IBC (International Billiards Council). Unfortunately, IBC deemed it more important to support their other tour stops and neglected to properly support their Philippine stop. IMO, it was a big mistake.

We have world reknowned players now but if they weren't built-up to have such star appeal (marketability) then progress of the sport here and its ability to produce top quality players would have been much slower. The world takes notice of our players but fail to notice that the support system (marketing aspect) is far more advanced than in any other country. A World Tour failed to appreciate that, where are they now?
 
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I hope with the upcoming World Pool Championships to be held there in the Philippines things would be different.
 
Renegade said:
I hope with the upcoming World Pool Championships to be held there in the Philippines things would be different.
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Different as in media exposure? Media coverage and reporting here has been way advanced than how the IPT NA Open was covered and reported. We get live major network coverage for our local tournaments and live ESPN Star for the WPC. I already posted that in detail in another thread. North America will have a tough time getting media coverage for pool events due to cost and approach of the event promoters.
 
That's good to hear, bandido. will espn coverage be live in other parts of the world as well or only in asia?
 
I think that

every AZB member should send the information of the IPT World 8 ball Championship in Reno with the payouts, etc. to the sports editor of their
local paper asking them to publish information about it or a player in it close to where they live.

Now, I have a little leverage since Gabe grew up here, and they have done, I think, 2 previous articles on him.
 
JustPlay said:
I think the fans in the seats consisted more of the friends and families of the players than actual pool enthusiest. And how about the half mile walk to get a drink or some food. Down/up 3 flights of escalators and the long walk to and from the food court and casino. The location of the event was terrible.
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I think there were quite a few pool fans there judging by people I spoke with. I wouldn't blame the IPT for the location of the event, I can't imagine how much effort and money it took to get the Venetian on short notice. I guess they could of provided casino maps to/from the event and to food locations. There were easier routes to the food court once you learned your way around the casino.

There was an elevator right beside the IPT room near the escalators you could use instead that was much faster. Right around the corner from that elevator on the lower floor was another one that went right up to the food court! Those casinos are a maze though it takes a while to figure your way around - they are designed like that to keep you trapped inside gambling :)

They also had another food court which was MUCH better food than the fast food court. They had home made real italian pizza and all kinds of stuff. I was pissed because I didn't find it until the last day, it was near the casino lobby.
 
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