My idea of a format that would generate some viewing interest. I would like your opinions please.
I have always wondered if what I saw work for kids in Recreation Centers when I was young wouldn't work today for the viewing of pool so here is my idea.
You recreate tournaments altogether in a way that makes them exciting. If you can test this and it works on a local level it would certainly do better that what we are doing now.
We have to realize that while playing pool the action is small on top of a table and it exciting to us but from a public perspective its a snooze fest. Kind of like watching One Pocket but playing it is a different story. At One Pocket events I routinely see people who are watching falling asleep.
So here is it.
Make Tournaments Doubles events. You draw for partners and you play the King of the Hill style until you get down to the last by giving each team a certain number of losses, until you get down to how ever many teams you intend to pay and then you can pay out the doubles teams as they place in a double elimination format run with those that are left so everyone that makes it to that point gets cash. Then if you wanted more action, you include all that were in the partners events in a singles event and let them slug it out to see who the top dogs really are.
You could even change the game a little and make a no safeties game with Ring Game Rules which would make for some spectacular shots and invoke supremacy of who the most talented shot makers are.
You can even make a handicap system by handicapping the players individually and using a combo of both handicaps to come up with a team handicap vs. team handicap for amateur events or leave it luck of the draw.
So what do you think? I know I like it. So much I invoked the blue!
I have always wondered if what I saw work for kids in Recreation Centers when I was young wouldn't work today for the viewing of pool so here is my idea.
You recreate tournaments altogether in a way that makes them exciting. If you can test this and it works on a local level it would certainly do better that what we are doing now.
We have to realize that while playing pool the action is small on top of a table and it exciting to us but from a public perspective its a snooze fest. Kind of like watching One Pocket but playing it is a different story. At One Pocket events I routinely see people who are watching falling asleep.
So here is it.
Make Tournaments Doubles events. You draw for partners and you play the King of the Hill style until you get down to the last by giving each team a certain number of losses, until you get down to how ever many teams you intend to pay and then you can pay out the doubles teams as they place in a double elimination format run with those that are left so everyone that makes it to that point gets cash. Then if you wanted more action, you include all that were in the partners events in a singles event and let them slug it out to see who the top dogs really are.
You could even change the game a little and make a no safeties game with Ring Game Rules which would make for some spectacular shots and invoke supremacy of who the most talented shot makers are.
You can even make a handicap system by handicapping the players individually and using a combo of both handicaps to come up with a team handicap vs. team handicap for amateur events or leave it luck of the draw.
So what do you think? I know I like it. So much I invoked the blue!
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