Most in your situation would be the first to complain. Better?
This is all you had to say.
I dunno about “most”.
I know a couple people who have the same attitude that I do and don’t really care who plays or not. Those people, like myself, already played in more than our fare share of stuff a couple decades ago, and won our fair share of matches against big names and the occasional regional tournament win here and there.
But I can agree that some, not all, would bail if they got pounded on repeatedly.
Where, when I was coming up, there were no handicapped big events for big table pool, and no Fargo numbers to put you in your appropriate slot, and the whole point was putting yourself in those situations to play players much better than you, to feel that pressure, get some seasoning, maybe get over that hump, and see what you were made of and if you could compete or not.
Aside from the select up and coming pool players who have truly caught the bug, and have their dreams set on trying to make it to the big time, for the majority, those days are OVER.
In my generation, we didn’t really have a choice. It was sh*t or get off the pot. You either can, or can’t, and that was it.
Now, people don’t have that attitude anymore and are perfectly content to stay in their little Fargo bubble of mediocrity that their local Fargo league provides, and never leave.
Thats not to say that everyone who doesn’t play well is trash.
Not at all.
But today, there are just way to many options for lesser players for them to have an incentive to improve.
At least in my area.
Other areas I can’t speak on, but in my area, this is the phenomenon that is being observed.