Snooker vs Pool - The Canadian Perspective

 
Thanks for the links, I am not sure who wrote some of that stuff or where they get their data from but they seem oblivious to the FACTS that most of the rooms on the west coast have closed and of the few that remain most have removed all or some of the snooker tables and 9ft tables.
Another room just close 3 weeks ago and auctioned off all the tables.

I would also like to know how they know how many home installations have been happening and if the demand for tables is so good how come not that long ago a pile of them from a closed room went to landfill cause nobody wanted to buy them.
I just get the feeling they are either throwing out some optimism in the hope that it will stick or they were looking to fill a web page.

I have no clue whats happening out east so I cannot comment and I suspect they have no clue whats happening out west.

The game has been in serious decline for ten years or more and thanks to our beloved Canadian Association (Lame Ducks of the first order) that will continue until there is nothing left, we are almost there now.
 
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Organizations like Snooker Canada rely on individuals to keep operating.
How well it goes depends on their ability and the time those individuals are willing to devote to the task.

http://www.snookercanada.ca/media/in-the-news/

If commercial rents in Vancouver are anything like housing prices, it is no wonder that rooms are closing.

Around Toronto things seem to be improving, although the Academy of Spherical Arts closed - condo development.

Wacky Wings opened a couple of years ago in Mississauga. The snooker tables were later sacrificed to make the bar area bigger.

The Corner Bank (?) the new room being created by Jim Wych et al will have 6 snooker tables.

In both cases, there seems to be money behind the projects. Wacky Wings purportedly has the same ownership as Playdium.
And The Corner Bank, I hear, has some deep pocket backing.
In other words, the rooms are big and seen as viable businesses.
 
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Scaramouche said:
http://www.snookercanada.ca/2011/02/mastercard-sponsors-snooker-canada/

Damn - AZB hides stuff. :mad:
Aside from the text, take a look at the complete URL. :D


http://www.snookercanada.ca/2011/02/2011-canadian-championships-details/

http://www.snookercanada.ca/2011/02/kirk-stevens-at-legends-tour-in-england/

http://www.snookercanada.ca/2011/02/new-snooker-academy-opens-in-montreal/
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I was all ready to take this seriously till I read "- The Canadian Perspective", and I knew right away it will be wrong.

One of my favorite lines from a movie about a boy going into the future where he asks about Canada, the answer was "Oh, you mean North Montana?" hehe. Meet the Robinsons if anyone is interested. Funny and worth a watch even if you don't have kids. One of those movies like Kung Fu Panda that I can watch by myself several times. ... No porn jokes please... :eek::grin-square:
 
hang-the-9 said:
I was all ready to take this seriously till I read "- The Canadian Perspective", and I knew right away it will be wrong.

One of my favorite lines from a movie about a boy going into the future where he asks about Canada, the answer was "Oh, you mean North Montana?" hehe. Meet the Robinsons if anyone is interested. Funny and worth a watch even if you don't have kids. One of those movies like Kung Fu Panda that I can watch by myself several times. ... No porn jokes please... :eek::grin-square:
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Yeah, because Canada is pretty much the same from coast to coast, just like every state in America is virtually identical. :rolleyes:
 
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