Tour AGE limits

jason

jason

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What if pool put an age limit on tournaments?

Lets just say 21 to 40 for a pro tour. The senior tour would be 41 and older.
This would put a since of urgency on winning world titles and break up the talent field and possibly create more rivalries.

Would we get more participation from younger players? Any opinions if this could be good, in the long run of course, for pool.
 
jason said:
What if pool put an age limit on tournaments?

Lets just say 21 to 40 for a pro tour. The senior tour would be 41 and older.
This would put a since of urgency on winning world titles and break up the talent field and possibly create more rivalries.

Would we get more participation from younger players? Any opinions if this could be good, in the long run of course, for pool.
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That's a terrible idea.
 
jason said:
What if pool put an age limit on tournaments?

Lets just say 21 to 40 for a pro tour. The senior tour would be 41 and older.
This would put a since of urgency on winning world titles and break up the talent field and possibly create more rivalries.

Would we get more participation from younger players? Any opinions if this could be good, in the long run of course, for pool.
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Terrible idea indeed. I was reading an earlier post about how pros get punished for being good, and this would REALLY be the nail in the coffin. If you can play, you can play. Earl and Efren are well past 40 and you know how they play.
 
Why is a age limit needed. The player decides himself when it it time. They know when it it time to quit or retire.
 
I agree that it might be a bad idea, but we have had the same guys at the top for so long. We pretty much know who is the best in the world.

Now if we had an under 30/40 tour, we would have players like Corey and Alex (just examples) dominating. We wouldn't necessarily know how they matched up against Earl and Efren. Have one big open tournament per year where the young guns would get their shot at the old guns. I think that would/could add excitement. Of course this is all hypothetical because we have too many independent tours with their own agendas. Also, you couldn't stop and wouldn't want to stop the younger players matching up against the older players.

One of the great things about other sports is the players do get older and there is a changing of the guard. In pool your eyes and back may go bad and you might loose a little on the break, but you can pretty much play forever.

This is just a thought and it would almost be impossible to execute with the current (or lack there of) structure of pool.
 
jason said:
I agree that it might be a bad idea, but we have had the same guys at the top for so long. We pretty much know who is the best in the world.

Now if we had an under 30/40 tour, we would have players like Corey and Alex (just examples) dominating. We wouldn't necessarily know how they matched up against Earl and Efren. Have one big open tournament per year where the young guns would get their shot at the old guns. I think that would/could add excitement. Of course this is all hypothetical because we have too many independent tours with their own agendas. Also, you couldn't stop and wouldn't want to stop the younger players matching up against the older players.

One of the great things about other sports is the players do get older and there is a changing of the guard. In pool your eyes and back may go bad and you might loose a little on the break, but you can pretty much play forever.

This is just a thought and it would almost be impossible to execute with the current (or lack there of) structure of pool.
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The beauty of pool, in my opinion, is that you can continue to play at a high level for a longer time, compared to sports like basketball, football, baseball, etc. Why create newer "top" players by eliminating the current aging top players? You could discriminate by a lot of factors to artificially and arbitrarily create partitions of top players.
 
Dunno about a "seniors" tour....but I do think in ALL tournaments, men over 50 should be allowed an extra bathroom break or two. ;)
 
Maybe I should have rephrased the question :

Would you like to see tour of just 30 year olds and under?
 
jason said:
What if pool put an age limit on tournaments?

Lets just say 21 to 40 for a pro tour. The senior tour would be 41 and older.
This would put a since of urgency on winning world titles and break up the talent field and possibly create more rivalries.

Would we get more participation from younger players? Any opinions if this could be good, in the long run of course, for pool.
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Really? Forcing players into the senior tour at 40. Bustas over 40 so
is Efren . This would just b splitting the field and discriminating.
There are enough rules in life just as it is.
This is an example of a great poster just missing one IMO
I still want to see SVB and Busta match up in tournys.
I also hope No one thinks this is a good thing.
Nothing personal Jason I think you r great
 
peteypooldude said:
Really? Forcing players into the senior tour at 40. Bustas over 40 so
is Efren . This would just b splitting the field and discriminating.
There are enough rules in life just as it is.
This is an example of a great poster just missing one IMO
I still want to see SVB and Busta match up in tournys.
I also hope No one thinks this is a good thing.
Nothing personal Jason I think you r great
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Nothing personal taken. :smile:

This was just an idea that I wanted to throw out there. I have admitted that there would be problems and almost impossible to implement.

This thread was started more as a "what if" than a statement of "this should happen."
 
Are you kidding? Some great players over 40 are Archer, Souquet, Reyes, Strickland, Luat, Bustamante, Ortmann, Fong Pang-Chao, Parica, Rodney Morris! All these players are still major threats, some even favorites to win major titles. Efren has probably won more titles after 40 than before. Mosconi was over 40 when he ran 526 balls! Nick Varner was over 40 when he won back to back U.S. Open titles! Buddy Hall won both his U.S. Open titles over 40 (one of them over 50). To relegate all these players to a senior tour would be ludicrous.
 
Maybe not so much a tour but a bigger push towards getting the 21 / 18 and under crowd playing, and playing competitively.
 
We should have an ODDS and EVENS format. If your age is an odd number year vs Even number year. This makes MUCH more sense than age limits. ;)
 
jason said:
What if pool put an age limit on tournaments?

Lets just say 21 to 40 for a pro tour. The senior tour would be 41 and older.
This would put a since of urgency on winning world titles and break up the talent field and possibly create more rivalries.

Would we get more participation from younger players? Any opinions if this could be good, in the long run of course, for pool.
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Now I know that I'm getting older, but I'm not ready for a seniors tour at 41 :grin:
 
Sorry, but that's a bad idea. Why would you want to eliminate people like Efren Reyes from a pool tournament?
 
I'd agree with most of the replies, it's a terrible idea, it doesn't matter how old you are, if you're good enough, you're good enough end of story. Why would younger players not want to play against the top players whatever their age, makes no sense IMHO.
 
You have Ladies, Junior, Senior and Open Tour. Isn't that enough? If you're good enough, or feel you're good enough, to compete on the Open Tour, then go for it. No matter of sex, age or origin.
If you can't handle it, I suppose you don't have what it takes at that level.

Just to compare. Senior Golf Tour start at 50.
 
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