They probably put 10 times more money in the game than any other company is my guess. They’ve been buying multiple full page ads in all print mags since 1994 or so whenever they launched. They’ve sponsored dozens, maybe a hundred professionals since then. They sponsor almost every tournament under the sun, even the regional events. They also sponsor and are often the title sponsor of many international events. Diamond puts on the DCC in their back yard and their sponsored player is Brumback.
Agree. Not knocking Diamond in any way, just think that Predator is every bit as big if not a bigger supporter of pool. Both of them put B'wick to shame these days. It would be nice to see Brunswick sponsor a big event again but since the sale i don't see that happening any time soon.
Easy to market a name!!
Talking out your backend again, you're not on the inside, you have no idea what you're talking about!!
Change the subject as usual. The point is that Predator promotes/sponsors pool on a scale equally as big if not bigger than Diamond. Are you privvy to the promotional budgets of either/both co's? Kinda doubt it. Who's talking out of their ass here??
Does Predator build lights? Do they make the cloth they sell? Do they make the pool tables they're about to sell? NO, they just market their NAME on those products!!! And yes, I'm aware of everything Diamond does!!
It's all about sales for Predator, nothing more! You want to make a bet, you'll NEVER see Predator pool tables used in the US Open OR the International Open 9 ball events????
Mallory or Tungsten is roughly twice as dense as the common low carbon steels and alloys but nobody in their right mind would use it on a pool table. It kind of surprising that some of the more expensive and tighter tolerance alloys have less density than cheap and common low carbon 1018.
And who would that be???
Thats a pretty bold prediction, I think that depends on how the table plays and how much it costs.
Also where it is made and how readily available it will be in the US.
I can tell you for certain, the Kim Steel tables had NO distribution in the US.
And most of the Kim Steel tables I'm aware of have already been replaced as junk tables.
Fact.
Availability, price, and performance will all make a difference to the success of their table efforts. IMO country of origin will not. Predator has been since the 90’s the best selling cue brand for serious players. At least half of that time period the cues were not made in the USA. Serious pool players are already used to buying their expensive equipment from offshore manufacturing.
Are you suggesting that Predator, a company which has spent the last nearly 30 years developing an uncompromising reputation for quality, service, and business/professional relationships would, all of a sudden, jump in bed with some low rent table building sub-contractor just so they can get their name in front of all those international subscribers to Matchroom (whatever), suffer embarrassment and failure, and have to slither back to Jacksonville, licking its wounds, and trying to salvage their pool cue business for the few loyal buyers they might have left?
Not sure if that was sarcasm or not.
Yes, of course it was sarcasm.....and I knew you would pick it up with ease.