If Bonus Ball Wants To Be Successful...
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That observation makes no sense. Who cares how easy or how hard it is?
I have 10 friends that have 210+ averages in bowling. They didnt put bowling on TV with 50 yard lanes, 20 pins, and 6 pound bowling balls.
It has to be something people understand - first and foremost - if it is an activity that a large % of the population already do in their leisure time.
Please bonus ball, if you want to be successful - don't listen to people just because they can draw their ball. Pool is in the current state it is in because of them.
Not for nothing... (and not to sidetrack this thread)
Posted on Facebook a few days ago:
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it has been talked about for years, its just talk
Nice post Watchez...
Watchez,
Is it the Christmas Spirit that has you giving away million dollar ideas?
Watchez,
Is it the Christmas Spirit that has you giving away million dollar ideas?
Watchez,
Is it the Christmas Spirit that has you giving away million dollar ideas?
All my ideas are copyrighted -
But here is what will happen - they will have their Bonus Ball and wonder why know one knows about it or is watching. They will have their 800K in camera equipment and 3 million dollar studio. And then they will add one more failure to the mix -they will get some ex pool player that can draw his ball to be the lead announcer and it will be the same as it always is. That is where pool fails too in trying to market to the masses. They keep using all these pool people to announce. Joe Rogan may know a lot about UFC but I have never seen him in the Octagon. Al Michaels made the greatest call in the history of sports and he has never faced a slap shot. Vin Scully is the greatest baseball announcer in history, doing it by himself for I forget how many decades and has never faced even an 80mph fastball. Marv Albert couldn't even dribble a basketball.
I don't like to speak for people but I can imagine that TAR has had some of it's success because they have avoided many of these pitfalls. They took the time to discuss their ideas outside of the people that can draw it 3 rails. They put people in the booth and people that the pool world got to know that aren't there simply because they are denoted as being some 'champion'.
Again - just because you can draw your ball doesn't mean you know diddly squat about running a business, building a brand name, owning a pool room or announcing an event. But pool, it's almost entire world, just keeps spinning on that down the drain.
You're probably right watchez...
I think that until pool starts using some traditional advertising to let people know about what's going on, the pool world will be doomed to repeating the same mistakes.
I think print and radio advertising along with something that can hook a general audience and give them something to get behind like supporting a team that they can associate themselves with could do wonders...if anything can.
That's why I had mentioned that they may be trying to target vacationers from the various spots that the teams are supposedly from at the casinos or on vacation to come as they would to other vegas shows. Since the entry isn't as high as most vegas shows, you might be surprised at how successful that may be.
Shit, anything would have to be more successful than what pool has been managing to do in the last several years. That's not saying that it would be enough, but we can hope that it will and that it could lead to something similar for tenball or other cue games and more general interest in pro pool...
Jaden
All my ideas are copyrighted -
But here is what will happen - they will have their Bonus Ball and wonder why know one knows about it or is watching. They will have their 800K in camera equipment and 3 million dollar studio. And then they will add one more failure to the mix -they will get some ex pool player that can draw his ball to be the lead announcer and it will be the same as it always is. That is where pool fails too in trying to market to the masses. They keep using all these pool people to announce. Joe Rogan may know a lot about UFC but I have never seen him in the Octagon. Al Michaels made the greatest call in the history of sports and he has never faced a slap shot. Vin Scully is the greatest baseball announcer in history, doing it by himself for I forget how many decades and has never faced even an 80mph fastball. Marv Albert couldn't even dribble a basketball.
I don't like to speak for people but I can imagine that TAR has had some of it's success because they have avoided many of these pitfalls. They took the time to discuss their ideas outside of the people that can draw it 3 rails. They put people in the booth and people that the pool world got to know that aren't there simply because they are denoted as being some 'champion'.
Again - just because you can draw your ball doesn't mean you know diddly squat about running a business, building a brand name, owning a pool room or announcing an event. But pool, it's almost entire world, just keeps spinning on that down the drain.
I think that until pool starts using some traditional advertising to let people know about what's going on, the pool world will be doomed to repeating the same mistakes.
I think print and radio advertising along with something that can hook a general audience and give them something to get behind like supporting a team that they can associate themselves with could do wonders...if anything can.
That's why I had mentioned that they may be trying to target vacationers from the various spots that the teams are supposedly from at the casinos or on vacation to come as they would to other vegas shows. Since the entry isn't as high as most vegas shows, you might be surprised at how successful that may be.
Shit, anything would have to be more successful than what pool has been managing to do in the last several years. That's not saying that it would be enough, but we can hope that it will and that it could lead to something similar for tenball or other cue games and more general interest in pro pool...
Jaden
actually no, I haven't
Haven't been to Vegas in a couple of years, just going by what I heard and saw in the past and until you, hadn't heard anything counter to it.
Jaden
Haven't been to Vegas in a couple of years, just going by what I heard and saw in the past and until you, hadn't heard anything counter to it.
Jaden