Red Bull or 5 Hour Energy drink would be potential sponsors.
Along with Depends and Super Beta Prostate.
"legends" of today
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Along with Depends and Super Beta Prostate.
Vivian is only 58
kiamco isn't old, he just looks it. he's like mikas age
The sixty-five year rule is entirely arbitrary. People's skills usually take a hit in their forties and another hit around sixty. The cutoff date could be sixty or seventy. I considered sixty-two also. If this went forward as an event or tour whoever ran it would have to look at players available that still played decent pool and who could provide entertainment. If I ran such a deal I would allow and encourage talking between the players except when somebody was lining up a shot or down on the shot addressing the cue ball. A player getting ready to shoot could ask for quiet at any time and that would be honored.
This is purely a daydream at this point. No plans or funding to run an event. The game and format are still open for consideration too. I would probably require a few year gap between a player's last time playing in a major event or on tour. The DCC would be excluded because of their efforts to get everyone to play making it cheaper to be a player than a spectator last I knew.
There would be lots of details to be worked out. I would be hoping for a sixteen person field but I would be open to different numbers. Nature of all events, endurance would be a factor but I want to try to minimize that. The goal is to try to make this at least a yearly event. Some kind of short tour or tours might be an option also.
Since this is just brainstorming and trying to attract the interest of somebody that could do something absolutely nothing is set in stone. Vivian Villareal(SP?) and several of the women have tremendous crowd appeal. No idea about ages and perhaps the age cut off for ladies should be different from that for men. This thread amounts to the total physical effort I have put into the idea. More idle thought than serious effort. Figured I would stick a toe in the water and see what the temperature was.
Hu
This is purely a daydream at this point. No plans or funding to run an event. The game and format are still open for consideration too. I would probably require a few year gap between a player's last time playing in a major event or on tour. The DCC would be excluded because of their efforts to get everyone to play making it cheaper to be a player than a spectator last I knew.
There would be lots of details to be worked out. I would be hoping for a sixteen person field but I would be open to different numbers. Nature of all events, endurance would be a factor but I want to try to minimize that. The goal is to try to make this at least a yearly event. Some kind of short tour or tours might be an option also.
Since this is just brainstorming and trying to attract the interest of somebody that could do something absolutely nothing is set in stone. Vivian Villareal(SP?) and several of the women have tremendous crowd appeal. No idea about ages and perhaps the age cut off for ladies should be different from that for men. This thread amounts to the total physical effort I have put into the idea. More idle thought than serious effort. Figured I would stick a toe in the water and see what the temperature was.
Hu
I watch some of these legends especially the videos in black and white and I think they wouldnt have a chance against today's players.
I have a multi CD set that had Ronnie Allen and Danny Deliberto playing for several days. Tony Chohan or Efren would eat their lunch and take their lunch money. The same goes for Grady, Keith, Buddy, the list goes on and on. Accustats really tells the tale IMO. One pocket isnt the game it was 20-30 years ago.
JMO
Ken
I have a multi CD set that had Ronnie Allen and Danny Deliberto playing for several days. Tony Chohan or Efren would eat their lunch and take their lunch money. The same goes for Grady, Keith, Buddy, the list goes on and on. Accustats really tells the tale IMO. One pocket isnt the game it was 20-30 years ago.
JMO
Ken
Is there any discipline where the best are living today?…must be some, but I don’t know it.
I appreciate you posting but I am not fond of the whole deepfake process unless it is made very obvious it is satire.
Hu
Maybe. I was curious to get a feel for how many legends were out there. I think UJ Puckett won one of the original Legends events at 75. I don't see that happening with fifty-five year olds in the mix. As I mentioned earlier, most players seem to see a degradation of their game around sixty.
Health issues, stamina, maybe eyesight, multiple reasons but I think we would likely see a situation where age was too large of a factor if we drop it below sixty-two, to try to be sure that everyone is in the same era of their career is why I suggested sixty-five. I think even sixty-two might have some still in vastly different physical condition and I don't want health to be any larger factor than can be avoided.
If things were to take off maybe there could be a seniors division for those rarely competitive in the pro mix any longer and a super senior division.
This thread is to get other opinions like yours and help me formulate my own thoughts. Nothing set in stone. Fargo ratings might come into play if enough players have them.
Hu
One Pocket isn't the game it was, the equipment and venues aren't what they once were, everything changes. However, I think if you could bring the greats of yesterday to today or vice-versa for that matter, I think the greats still find a way to be great and to win. That doesn't mean that you can put an eighty year old against a twenty-eight year old but within reason the top competitors fid ways to be great. Efren's One Pocket career at the DCC is totally ridiculous. The very short races, the huge field, his age and eyesight, everything seems to say that Efren should have been buried deep in the pack most of the times when he blew through the field for a very high finish.
I don't know if the event would be One Pocket or any of a handful of games. I would like to equalize the players as much as possible then let the fur fly!
Hu
