I have a problem...Bustamante vs TAR 26 Winner Back to Back. Opinions wanted

[Nick B]

I agree. Ralf just isn't going to draw butts to screens. Hell if you had Ralf vs Charlie W you would draw virtually no one. JCIN and Mark might as well put 5K in a bucket and light it on fire.

I can just see it....In this corner Ralf "I'm a slow machine" S vs....Charlie "How come nobody loves me" W. I would buy it to support TAR and then turn it off in 10 minutes unless they break out in a no holds barred street brawl (with cues and balls) or a PORN ...........I'll stop now. Before I say what I'm thinking and get put in penalty box for six months.

Nick

People keep talking about Ralf but I really do not see him being that big of a draw, he plays great but its usually death by boredom. I also dont see him having the 10 Ball break to not get his nuts shot well and truly in by Dennis. As for Wu and Yang....Yang left most people who saw him this week underwhelmed and I seriously doubt 75% of our customers could pick Wu out of a line up (me included).

Honestly I do not have that much interest in doing all the work to get some mostly unknown guy from overseas here only to have him maybe win once, take the money and never be seen again. That doesnt help build anything. With guys like Bustamante and Alex we at least know they are going to be in the country for a few months out of the year.

When Dennis plays a TAR match I am thinking Alex or Shane will be his opponent. But who knows....after this week and the show he put on its possible no one wants any of Dennis right now.

 

[jwilliams]

It seems that when it rains it pours...Bustamante is in the U.S. for the 1Pocket and 10 Ball Opens going on now and told me he wants to play the winner of TAR 26 Archer/SVB but it would have to be the following weekend which is June 1-3.

That would be a whole lot of PPV's in a row and I'm very concerned people wouldn't or couldn't pay for that much pool in a short time. Between now and then we have the US Open 10 Ball event and TAR 26.

I may be able to get Busty back to Vegas in July around the Tunica event but its not guaranteed. So I am in a quandary. Do you do the match and take a big risk of losing money because people are burned out on PPV or let the opportunity go and try to do it at some point in the future but with no guarantee when ?

This whole model is possible because of the people who buy and support our matches and I really do not want to burn anyone out. I am torn on this one and would like to hear peoples opinons on the situation.

What would you do?

For what it's worth...If you do both matches with some sort of discount for buying both, I'm in. I'd already planned on watching the Archer vs SVB match, so the winner vs Bustamante is just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

 

[gordml]

People keep talking about Ralf but I really do not see him being that big of a draw, he plays great but its usually death by boredom. I also dont see him having the 10 Ball break to not get his nuts shot well and truly in by Dennis. As for Wu and Yang....Yang left most people who saw him this week underwhelmed and I seriously doubt 75% of our customers could pick Wu out of a line up (me included).

Honestly I do not have that much interest in doing all the work to get some mostly unknown guy from overseas here only to have him maybe win once, take the money and never be seen again. That doesnt help build anything. With guys like Bustamante and Alex we at least know they are going to be in the country for a few months out of the year.

When Dennis plays a TAR match I am thinking Alex or Shane will be his opponent. But who knows....after this week and the show he put on its possible no one wants any of Dennis right now.

I would definitely be a buyer if Alex played Dennis.
Its true that Dennis has been playing well winning 2 10 ball tourneys in a row - but I dont think he has been that dominant.

No more than lots of other top players who have had great runs.
The hot seat match between Alex and Dennis was top notch. Alex was breaking at 8-6 going to 9 but scratched and lost 3 games in a row. Could have gone either way. I actually thought Alex's safeties were better.(IMO)

I would also be a fan of the push out rule after every break. that would insure that for every game both players get at least one visit to the table. That would mean every game starts as a safety battle.
More pool quality and quantity for your money.(again IMO)