Before everybody jumps on me and I get shot at with typing, let me explain my logic.....
IT is obvious with the need for secondary servers to show all the match to all of the people who logged on that a lot of people logged on. Now I know that many people are harping on the poor commercials, but you have to remember that KT's goal when he started the IPT was not to bilk a bunch of pool players out of money.. that's really a ridiculous notion. He was planning on being able to pick up corporate sponsors by buying tv time and getting interest generated, but it's kinda hard to do that when the TV stations only list the shows as paid adverstising. How many people do you know that tune into "paid televised adverstising"?
When he was unable to get corporate sponsors on syndicated tv, he tried to on the fly switch up his model and try to partner up with the online gambling industry, but the new legislation passed down by congress nipped that in the bud...
Instead of giving up and "Not paying the winners of the already held tournaments at all!!!", he's changed his model again, and is slowly but consistently paying off the debts incurred by the originally failed business models.
The commercial advertisers he was able to get for this internet matchup were nothing more IMO than guinea pigs to showcase the viability of televised pool. If enough viewers tune into a venue where actual number of viewers can be recorded, (unlike television), then it is possible to garner corporate investor interest. If you start getting enough of the bigger corporate advertisers interested in advertising on the internet matches, then you can generate the interest that is necesary for the matches to become syndicated on national television and shown live.
I believe that much of the waning interest in televised pool of the past has been caused by the edited for tv non live broadcasts. HEll, I know who's going to win the majority of the televised matches before I ever watch them because we talk about them as they happen on our board and in the pool halls we frequent.
If someone could ever get a syndicated tv station to advertise and broadcast "Live pool" don't you think it would be watched and like;y generate more interest in the sport.
I like to keep an open mind and after watching the excitement that this match generated, I can only remain hopeful that the aforementioned will indeed happen and we will see arenaissance of the sport we love and hold so dear..
Ok Let the IPT and Jaden bashing beginn LOL!!!!!!!
IT is obvious with the need for secondary servers to show all the match to all of the people who logged on that a lot of people logged on. Now I know that many people are harping on the poor commercials, but you have to remember that KT's goal when he started the IPT was not to bilk a bunch of pool players out of money.. that's really a ridiculous notion. He was planning on being able to pick up corporate sponsors by buying tv time and getting interest generated, but it's kinda hard to do that when the TV stations only list the shows as paid adverstising. How many people do you know that tune into "paid televised adverstising"?
When he was unable to get corporate sponsors on syndicated tv, he tried to on the fly switch up his model and try to partner up with the online gambling industry, but the new legislation passed down by congress nipped that in the bud...
Instead of giving up and "Not paying the winners of the already held tournaments at all!!!", he's changed his model again, and is slowly but consistently paying off the debts incurred by the originally failed business models.
The commercial advertisers he was able to get for this internet matchup were nothing more IMO than guinea pigs to showcase the viability of televised pool. If enough viewers tune into a venue where actual number of viewers can be recorded, (unlike television), then it is possible to garner corporate investor interest. If you start getting enough of the bigger corporate advertisers interested in advertising on the internet matches, then you can generate the interest that is necesary for the matches to become syndicated on national television and shown live.
I believe that much of the waning interest in televised pool of the past has been caused by the edited for tv non live broadcasts. HEll, I know who's going to win the majority of the televised matches before I ever watch them because we talk about them as they happen on our board and in the pool halls we frequent.
If someone could ever get a syndicated tv station to advertise and broadcast "Live pool" don't you think it would be watched and like;y generate more interest in the sport.
I like to keep an open mind and after watching the excitement that this match generated, I can only remain hopeful that the aforementioned will indeed happen and we will see arenaissance of the sport we love and hold so dear..
Ok Let the IPT and Jaden bashing beginn LOL!!!!!!!
