That is ABSOLUTELY NOT the rule on the Maxim Tour and I have personally seen this come up time after time. Janis does not listen to objections on players ability from anyone unless they are backed up by player stats. It is that simple. Your stats as a player in his rules speak for themselves. No and's if's or butt's about it.
David, have you won any event or even cashed in any events in the last 5 years ??? Nothing personal but me thinks you need to check your ego at the door. I could not find any player stats on you for the last 5 years. Unless you are playing under a different name. Are you, have you been playing under a different name or am I missing something here?
Ego? I'm just expressing my opinion that there are players that exist in the gray area. Where the hell did that come from?
I'm not using a different name, and no I haven't cashed or even played in quite some time, but I was still turned away from a qualifier for a professional event 2 years ago. Go figure. To this day it remains a mystery to me as to why - perhaps it was BS politics, who knows?
That type of response to my comments is typical to what is wrong with the entire pool world. I express an opinion, and you make insinuations about my character, which was brought up because of what? There was no reason for that - but you felt it necessary to do it anyway. I don't really play anymore, so it was pointless, but WTF, you thought you'd toss that out there anyway.
There has been a lot of rock tossing and posturing all week long. All of this nonsense is reflective of the game of pool and it's current condition. We have players boycotting - promoters responding - chatter here - chatter there - toss a grenade and run for cover. The pool world is one big joke.
Professional player? Where is there a professional tour? All I see is a bunch of regional tours. In North America, professional pool player means high level amateur. Skateboarders have their shitt together better than we do.
Banned list for players? Boycotts? All this proves is that nobody can get along. It's all posturing and throat slashing. What an accomplishment!
The industry won't start or even support a pro tour. Why is that? They don't trust anybody!
We have an entire generation of young pool players that are paying for the decisions that people made 20-25 years ago. Is anybody trying to fix that, or are we content with all these regional tours that run in 42 different directions with resources that should be directed towards building something better than what they are comfortable with?
It's a friggin' hamster's wheel constructed by the hamsters themselves.
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The promoters that put up the cash -or- raise cash for the events that players play in - how do the players give back to them - or is it just take - take - take?
I know the answer to that, and it's a big part of the problem.
We are in this situation because our game is dysfunctional. It is the end result of a severe lack of leadership, along with the inability for some people to get the hell out of the way of progress.
We can ban each other, boycott each other, flip each other off, accuse each other of this or that, its all a giant waste of time and energy. It's also childish and embarrassing. This is the reason why nobody will toss a dime our way. Can you blame them?
I don't.
We can sit here and point fingers at each other all day long - but this mess is everybody's fault. Everybody is losing, and until we pull our heads out of our asses and take care of the ROOT PROBLEMS -EFFECTIVELY... we will all continue to lose.
