Name your #1 picks for amateur events and pro tournaments
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Hardest and best true amateur event is us amateur.
Best mostly amateur event is apa singles nationals. bca nationals looks to be as good or better but I've never gone so i can't give an opinion.
Best not really amateur but called it is super billiard expo.
For pro id say us open and derby are a toss up. Behind those Maybe the us bartable in Reno.
Best mostly amateur event is apa singles nationals. bca nationals looks to be as good or better but I've never gone so i can't give an opinion.
Best not really amateur but called it is super billiard expo.
For pro id say us open and derby are a toss up. Behind those Maybe the us bartable in Reno.
if i read the brackets right you made a pretty sporty run in the amateur last week. congrats. you gotta play well to make a good run in that event:thumbup: always nice to see an az member have a good run. maybe next year you'll take the whole show.
Are you talking about the event put on by the APA with absolutely no prize fund? The self-proclaimed most "prestigious" (I use that word jokingly) amateur event in the U.S. I'm calling BS. If you ain't playin' for nothin', it means nothin'...period. What a f--n joke.
jrt30004 thx!
Jason, I understand why you would say that but I can tell already you havent studied the tournament history and players involved. Here's some of the field from the 2011 event:
Ernesto Bayaua
Ron Park
Kenneth Brisbon
Raymond Linares
Brian Parks
Jason Richko
Houston Rodriguez
How do you think you might do matching up with those guys? B U S T E D ?
i just scratched the surface on the event. The lack of a prize fund really does make this the only true amateur event and its a great event. Your really speaking from ignorance and not from actual knowledge. Take a moment and study the results of the past events:
http://www.usamateurchampionship.com/champions.html
Jason, I understand why you would say that but I can tell already you havent studied the tournament history and players involved. Here's some of the field from the 2011 event:
Ernesto Bayaua
Ron Park
Kenneth Brisbon
Raymond Linares
Brian Parks
Jason Richko
Houston Rodriguez
How do you think you might do matching up with those guys? B U S T E D ?
i just scratched the surface on the event. The lack of a prize fund really does make this the only true amateur event and its a great event. Your really speaking from ignorance and not from actual knowledge. Take a moment and study the results of the past events:
http://www.usamateurchampionship.com/champions.html
No Neil, im not saying it tougher to win than SBE and BCA Nationals. No doubt at all that those events are much tougher to win than US Amateur. The US Am is the only one of those events thats a true amateur event. The minute you put a cash prize fund, your mixing pro/semi pro with the amateurs. Take the superbilliard expo. I remember in 2010 the final four had Clatterbuck, Mark Vidal and Tom D'Alphonso. Really? Thats not an Amateur Event.
The OP asked for amateur and pro. Thats why my first response I tried to define the amateur term more because in the USA it holds a very wide definition.
The OP asked for amateur and pro. Thats why my first response I tried to define the amateur term more because in the USA it holds a very wide definition.
Sbe vs usam
Great debate about what a true amateur event.
SBE is more open to amateurs than the USAM. The USAM has preliminary rounds. While the SBE has limitations on who can enter the event.
Since the USAM requires a qualifying round, that makes it less of an amateur event. Since there are qualifiers that changes things.
The difference being if unranked and want to play the event just sign up for the SBE while the USAM requires qualifying status.
I go with SBE being more amateur because of the qualifying event required in the USAM.
Qualifying means you have to be a certain level of amateur to play, while just not winning the events specified in the SBE rules qualifies many amateurs. I went with the rule that included more amateurs.
But my opinion is not the final answer. Just my answer.
Great debate about what a true amateur event.
SBE is more open to amateurs than the USAM. The USAM has preliminary rounds. While the SBE has limitations on who can enter the event.
Since the USAM requires a qualifying round, that makes it less of an amateur event. Since there are qualifiers that changes things.
The difference being if unranked and want to play the event just sign up for the SBE while the USAM requires qualifying status.
I go with SBE being more amateur because of the qualifying event required in the USAM.
Qualifying means you have to be a certain level of amateur to play, while just not winning the events specified in the SBE rules qualifies many amateurs. I went with the rule that included more amateurs.
But my opinion is not the final answer. Just my answer.
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