I'm beginning to believe this too.I think FB is best used for pictures of your pets. And nothing else.
I'm beginning to believe this too.I think FB is best used for pictures of your pets. And nothing else.
I'm beginning to believe this too.
I disagree. The WPA president came on two different podcasts and answered questions live. As well, the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) board member David Morris has expressed his concerns regarding the World Nineball Tour. Shane Tyree of BCA and WPA also did a podcast. Matchroom's Karl Boyes will be on a podcast Monday, tomorrow, and share his thoughts on the recent happenings. I'm not sure what podcasts you've been watching, but I've seen all of them.Matchroom is effectively using FB to be available and transparent with players, specifically Emily Frazer.
WPA is more formal with their press statements.
Ive never been more excited for a Molina, Joey, and Panozzo interview. I hope they get federation reps for discussion.
I disagree. The WPA president came on two different podcasts and answered questions live. As well, the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) board member David Morris has expressed his concerns regarding the World Nineball Tour. Shane Tyree of BCA and WPA also did a podcast. Matchroom's Karl Boyes will be on a podcast Monday, tomorrow, and share his thoughts on the recent happenings. I'm not sure what podcasts you've been watching, but I've seen all of them.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. That's all it is. Everybody comes at it from different vantage points with different opinions. In case you haven't noticed, many of the federation pro players are radio silent.Emily is building relationships with players.
WPA is creating a platform to attract more federations or attract new federation members.
Emily speaks to the values of a player, through their pov. She is always taking in feedback and making moves with players in their hometowns. Fulda, Germany is on the map because of her. The vision to grow the sport like this is unimagined by pool players for decades.
WPA messaging has been about the machinery of the sport. Their vision is for the sport not players. Their newest events are not locations known for
billiards or have any significance to the existing pool community.
WPA is forcing an integration with universal ban rules. They explained it clearly, but they dont have the evidence to show WPA fields will be empty if they gave the choice.
I don't.... I think we all need different ideas perspectives & thoughts to help one another, business or life.I'm beginning to believe this too.
Agree, and I wrote similar in the Yap banning thread. If the WPA loses the top players, the promoters putting up the money won't put it up anymore to host a tournament with low level players, and simply pull out of the whole promotion business. I hadn't thought that they would join forces with MR instead like you mention. That's a good possibility.The players will go where the money is. Always have, always will!
How do you think a promoter of a major WPA event will feel if most, if not all, the top players are banned from participating because they are playing the Matchroom events? Who will they blame for that and how will they respond? I suspect they would no longer be interested in paying a worthless sanction fee first of all. Perhaps they would then consider becoming part of the Matchroom group of events. Just food for thought.
We don’t know how many players are getting a salary or help from local federations. But it’s surely not enough to leave us with local shortstops and APA 7s.Agree, and I wrote similar in the Yap banning thread. If the WPA loses the top players, the promoters putting up the money won't put it up anymore to host a tournament with low level players, and simply pull out of the whole promotion business. I hadn't thought that they would join forces with MR instead like you mention. That's a good possibility.
The same can be said of MR. If they lose all the top players, maybe they will fold up? Would we watch a MR event with the local shortstops instead of the pros? I don't know...
. . . Would we watch a MR event with the local shortstops instead of the pros? I don't know...
The product MR is creating is going after the fans and the player$.I'm kind of shaking my head that so much of the debate is about supporting the players, or supporting WPA, or supporting MR. Nobody has mentioned supporting the fans. Without fans, pro pool doesn't exist, period. To make a semi-analogy, big companies fail when they're too inward looking; but those that start with a customer mindset make better decisions and prosper. I just wonder if WPA and MR have gotten a little tunnel-visioned, and how they might see things differently if they held every decision up the the light of whether it's going to help pool's fans.
I tend to agree. I find myself watching vintage snooker matches quite often. They are great to drift off to sleep to. Anyway, snooker both pre and post Matchroom did and have done a way better job of building their product. Pool has just never been able to do that without Matchroom. Live snooker matches in the 80s were bigger than today's pool, with in match cutaways to studio commentators, like major sports here. I'm not saying that some like Accu-stats haven't done a good to great job of broadcasting matches for us pool nuts, but nobody has been able to elevate the game beyond us.Personally I think the pool world has improved more in the last 4 years with MRs involvement than it did in the 29 previous years.
I agree with you about MR. Both MR and WPA can argue that they're supporting fans by building the sport, but MR has a much more compelling argument. What fans want most is to see the best players. WPA is limiting fans' access to the best players by dictating where they can play. Matchroom isn't. My point is the better you serve the fans, the better you build the sport. Matchroom has the edge in that regard, so I'm with them.The product MR is creating is going after the fans and the player$.
They know from Snooker experience how pool player$ think.
Mosconi Cup is an example.
I don't know of the WPA going after the fans. By creating, improving and making their events better each year.
If I'm wrong, let me know.