What do you think would happen if there were no handicaps, in any leagues or tournaments, and all tournaments were Open to all skill levels?

SBC said:
You are describing pool from 30 years ago.
You got better or You got used to losing.
The pecking order was clear in every pool hall.

That's how pool should have stayed.
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This is what pool is like in the UK, much like you describe. If your not good enough you don't win. Its that simple.
Aspiring to be better, learning from the best players. Its what its about.
 
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What do you think would happen if there were no handicaps, in any leagues or tournaments, and all tournaments were Open to all skill levels?​


That depends on which generation of players your talking to.
The land of hard knocks never did increase play much.
Stats/BCA.... USA averages were 20 mil players/Color of Money made it 30 Mil players for a decade, then back to 20.
Now, different era of mankind.
I don't mind handicapping the event, but NOT the entry fee.
I don't enjoy paying more entry fee$ as I got better.
 
I'm all for handicapping! I mean, without handicapping I have to say Shane beat me like a rented mule, a whitewash.

With handicapping I can say Well Shane did manage to get by me but I was giving him the crackles and the seven out!

A guy was talking about bringing AJ Foyt to race in our little weekly show when he was available in a car that cost a dozen times what mine did. As a local owner/driver the track owner asked me what I thought. "Hell yeah! If AJ beats me nobody will even notice. If I beat AJ I'll rent out a billboard!"

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pt109 said:
This might just be the best idea…..Dale Sweet had a Sunday tournament at the Silver Cue somewhat like that…from 2$ to 25$ entry.
Always stayed in thee fifty entries range….your extra activity sounds even better.
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Somebody wins a new Predator cue prettywell at every event. Last season a lady broke in the 10-ball challenge and picked up $2505.00 by pocketing 3 balls at $835/ ball. They hold alot of memorial and charity events as well as a junior program.
 
JPB2 said:
There is a third group. Those who quit.
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In my observations, those at the bottom of the pecking order in pool halls sometimes quit, but more often than not they just left the pool hall and went to bars where there were boxes to play on that are shorter, less wide, and With bigger pockets than the tables at the pool hall.
 
Frosty said:
In my observations, those at the bottom of the pecking order in pool halls sometimes quit, but more often than not they just left the pool hall and went to bars where there were boxes to play on that are shorter, less wide, and With bigger pockets than the tables at the pool hall.
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Pool just died off around me so bars it was. Bummer at first but without the jock crowd the genre of pool became much clearer.
 
If this happened leagues would collapse. The truth is people are more interested in an illusion of competition and being good and less in actually trying to get better. Another hobby you mine is archery. Participation in amateur tournaments for archery is low because there is no handicap. They tried to handicap a league I was in. With the system they came up with I would have had to shoot a world record score to win. When I pointed that out everybody laughed.
 
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