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Well who isn't at least a little shocked that there are a few unseen wrinkles in the ipt master plan. The world open players should be paid what they were told they would be paid. Hopefully they will. I also believe the ipt can work. It may have been a mistake to not work with the current associations and promotors to build on what they have been for decades... at least as far as organizing qualifiers and forming a sustainable pro tour. If I were in charge of the tour I would immediately apologize to any other major tournament promotor who's toes may have been stepped on. Secondly, I would ask the sanctioning bodies of pool and their organizational downlines for their assistance in promoting qualifiers. Most importantly I would have qualifiers at $100. Not $2000. KT would attract AT LEAST 20 times the number of players, hence 20 times THE MARKET to sell his memberships and products to and 20 times the word-of-mouth publicity. I'd also have a 9-Ball component to the tour... sure most people play 8-ball but it's amazing how many people are now playing 9-ball... in large part due to it's popularity on T.V.

The road to hell was paved with good intentions. The wheel does not have to be reinvented when it comes to pool. Starting smaller with reasonable pay outs with a 5 year plan might have been the way to go... unless the online gaming thing was the ace up the sleeve.... in which case... there are always options. There is nothing wrong with an IPO either... I've bought $50 worth of penny stock before. It's not over till it's over and if that happens... I'll probably get drunk. Hey... here's a good one... how's about a brewery sponsor?
 
markcorkum said:
Well who isn't at least a little shocked that there are a few unseen wrinkles in the ipt master plan. The world open players should be paid what they were told they would be paid. Hopefully they will. I also believe the ipt can work. It may have been a mistake to not work with the current associations and promotors to build on what they have been for decades... at least as far as organizing qualifiers and forming a sustainable pro tour. If I were in charge of the tour I would immediately apologize to any other major tournament promotor who's toes may have been stepped on. Secondly, I would ask the sanctioning bodies of pool and their organizational downlines for their assistance in promoting qualifiers. Most importantly I would have qualifiers at $100. Not $2000. KT would attract AT LEAST 20 times the number of players, hence 20 times THE MARKET to sell his memberships and products to and 20 times the word-of-mouth publicity. I'd also have a 9-Ball component to the tour... sure most people play 8-ball but it's amazing how many people are now playing 9-ball... in large part due to it's popularity on T.V.

The road to hell was paved with good intentions. The wheel does not have to be reinvented when it comes to pool. Starting smaller with reasonable pay outs with a 5 year plan might have been the way to go... unless the online gaming thing was the ace up the sleeve.... in which case... there are always options. There is nothing wrong with an IPO either... I've bought $50 worth of penny stock before. It's not over till it's over and if that happens... I'll probably get drunk. Hey... here's a good one... how's about a brewery sponsor?
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A Few wrinkles? The Titanic had a leak too. They both ended up in the same place.
 
Personally I don't believe a tour should be funded solely by qualifiers... but to get it off the ground, it's not a bad idea. I can imagine three full 32 player qualifying tournys per year within the Maritime provinces in Canada, one per province, a combined population of about 2 million. Considering if the rest of the world's average paying player participation rate is six times less than ours (this is a complete guestimation- awaiting response from WPA) there would be 48,000 players paying $100 each totalling $4.8 million.... or, enough money to pay out four $1.2 million tournaments, eight $600,000 tournys, or sixteen $300,000 events- right off the get go. This would require thousands of partnering locations- all promoting and benefiting from the tour, merchandise and spin-off business. Using the same ratios for qualifiers, there would be 1500 world-wide each year. So to say that there is more than just money- that's indisputable. How would any company pull off the qualifiers without going broke first? Establishing 1500 partnering locations would take years of planning... almost impossible for one person... not so impossible for a world pool association.
 
markcorkum said:
Personally I don't believe a tour should be funded solely by qualifiers... but to get it off the ground, it's not a bad idea. I can imagine three full 32 player qualifying tournys per year within the Maritime provinces in Canada, one per province, a combined population of about 2 million. Considering if the rest of the world's average paying player participation rate is six times less than ours (this is a complete guestimation- awaiting response from WPA) there would be 48,000 players paying $100 each totalling $4.8 million.... or, enough money to pay out four $1.2 million tournaments, eight $600,000 tournys, or sixteen $300,000 events- right off the get go. This would require thousands of partnering locations- all promoting and benefiting from the tour, merchandise and spin-off business. Using the same ratios for qualifiers, there would be 1500 world-wide each year. So to say that there is more than just money- that's indisputable. How would any company pull off the qualifiers without going broke first? Establishing 1500 partnering locations would take years of planning... almost impossible for one person... not so impossible for a world pool association.
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You, my friend, have an active imagination. 48,000 players. 1500 qualifiers per year. 8-$600,000 or 16-$300,0000 tourneys per year. Pass the peyote.
 
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