Do Tournaments Really Show Who's the Best?

[CrownCityCorey]

The winner of a tournament is the player that had the best tournament.

The best player, does not necessarily win the tournament.

 

[JAM]

Hi all

Sorry for a late update about money game here. Carlo Biado 17 - SVB 11. so they tie 1-1. every Pro player already go home right now. only Victor arpileda dand edgie Geronimo stay in jakarta. :frown:.

For Alex Pagulayan, he told me soon he will come back to POOL game. But it's all depend his mood.

Thanks for the updates. It is nice to hear from those who are there.

Keep posting on AzBilliards. It is truly refreshing to have insights about pool from others around the world. Thanks again! :smile:

 

[gordml]

Hi all

Sorry for a late update about money game here. Carlo Biado 17 - SVB 11. so they tie 1-1. every Pro player already go home right now. only Victor arpileda dand edgie Geronimo stay in jakarta. :frown:.

For Alex Pagulayan, he told me soon he will come back to POOL game. But it's all depend his mood.

Yes thanks for your updates. I just wanted to know if Alex had seen this thread
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showth...ght=alex+poker

 

[sjharr]

Tournaments are a crap shoot nowadays. But there is always enough great players for some of them to rise to the top as the cream does.

Back in the day there used to be big bigger match ups to determine a better player.

In Jan1951 a few months before I was born, Mosconi and Crane played 14.1 going to 3000 points !

It was in 2 blocks of 1500. One Philly and one in KC. About a week at each location. Check it out and more at this fantastic website. TY Charlie Ursitti.

http://charlesursitti.com/?page_id=204

OH scroll down to page 12 in the viewer to see this event. Note that Mosconi's nickname says "Free Wheelin Willie"

Looks like round robins were the normal thing back then !

Cool stuff!

Mosconi wasn't just winning - he dominated!

Steve H

 

[pdcue]

Well first off - there is nothing innapropriate about my wanting to "editorialize" . Thats what forums like this are for.
(that's a really hard word to say out loud try it...), all it really means is expressing one's opinion while discussing a topic of interest.
Second of all I posed this as a question because I wanted to know what people think about the current tournament structures and if they are prone to causing too many upsets. In fact I appreciated a lot of responses, as they were well thought out.
Thirdly the US Open tennis tourney is coming up at the end of the month. The organizers, sponsors and fans can feel pretty safe that at least one of the game's best players (Nadal or Federer) will be in the final.
NOT SO IN POOL. Now thats a fact.

Well, thanks for proving my point.

You had no desire for a discussion. You had no intrest in
answers to a question.

What you had was a strongly held OPINION, for which you were
seeking external validation.
That is not an apropriate format for a discussion.

If you wanted to discuss the pros and cons relating to that opinion,
why not just say that?

Dale<who holds many opinions>

 

[Str8PoolPlayer]

Tournament results indicate whom is the Best at a specific moment in time.

 

[Georgia Boy]

I think the point is that most if not all the 'Big' Tournaments are about making money for the promoters aren't they? The way they do that is by sponsorship and TV rights. To get those you have to keep the tournament and games fairly short. Can you imagine any Major Networks Worldwide putting on a two to three week tournament with long sets, I think not. I would love to watch something like that, but the Networks are driven by advertising revenue and especially in this economic climate money is tough to come by for everyone.

The tournaments we do have are probably the best we will get for a very long time. If a truly International Pool Tour could be properly funded you maybe closer to finding the 'Best Player' in the World.