You won't see it, because no one streaming that snooker match, most of the snooker audience never picked a cue, and don't know anything about the game, they are just interested to watch the world top 20 players who are famous
That's like claiming I'd watch a cricket match. I know nothing about the rules, don't own a single aspect of simliar equipment, but I'm fairly sure there are some who play that are famous. I can gaurentee you, I nor anyone I know would watch cricket because supposedly some players are famous.
You guys don't know what you want
There's been 9 pages in this thread explaining exactly what some want. A minor dress code for major events in an effort to provide a sense of professionalism to the game. Have you been reading the thread...?
You want a non-playing audience to watch pool, but why?
To increase potential fan base, which in turn may just increase the value of advertising opprotunity
You want SVB, Filler, Chang, Ko brothers, Shaw, Dennis, Biado, Wu, Haitao, Kaci, Feijen, Gorst.. to earn more?
Sure why not. As we've been told earlier (by the ill informed) that poor Dennis's $106K annually only allows him to chisel out a living equal to a mediocre computer programmer. What pros earn has no bearing on me, but I wouldn't have a problem if they were all millionares.
Could you image the world wherein a young person could entertain becoming a professional pool player and if they made it could count on earning enough each year to support his/her family...? Currently, after an extremely brief google search they will discover they will need a second job unless they land in the top 5% of all playing pros. Not much motovation to dedicate their life to the game is it.
Or you imagine that someone who don't know anything about game would watch your local tournaments on TV and it will be 100k prize for winning it?
Not sure how asking people to dress presentably is getting stretched into wanting my local tournament to be worth 100k with a televised spot on ESPN, but sure, I'm all for it....lol
You constantly want pool to be snooker, and you don't see that there are much more people making money in pool industry than snooker
Again, if you read the thread. No one has said they want pool to be snooker. If the pool industry is grossing more than it's snooker counterpart then right on. Really changes nothing in regards to improving the image of the North American game. Which is the focus of this thread.
There are much more people earn playing (only England has more Snooker pros than Pool pros), much more cue makers, table makers, instructors, room owners, streamers... and that changes would kill most of them
To entertain the extreme as you seem to be taking it to... Once again, I don't see how asking players in major events who are pretending to be professionals, dress like professionals hurts the industry at all. So in your head it's like some kind of dooms day butterfly effect, that if I put on a golf shirt prior to my streamed match, that months down the road Predator will lose 10% of it's market share...?..., or Accustats won't be able to sell another DVD...? Really...?
Anything, dress code or whatever, that shines a more positive light on the game is good fo the game. Image is everything...
But yes, top 50 snooker players earn good money, and you want it for pool as if you are top50 in the world
Well why can't the top 50 pool players in the world make equalivent money to the snooker greats...? Oh that's right the money isn't there. Wonder how we can generate more money for pool...? Oh that's right, like nearly how every other game does it, through corporate sponsorship. Hold on, we need to have a product that they'd want to attach their company to. Better improve the image of the game before try and pitch it to them....
There is Televised events that matchroom runs, and it's pretty good and enough for non-playing audience
Guessing you're not senior management at a fortune 500 company...?
