Which four tournaments do you consider to be majors?

DoomCue

DoomCue

David J. Baranski
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Another thread got me curious. I've talked with numerous people on numerous occasions about which tournaments they think should be considered majors. Invariably, I received numerous responses. Personally, I think DCC, the WPC, the US Open, and the BCA Open are the majors. But, you could also throw in the World Games, the UPA Tour championship, the San Miguel championship, etc. What do you think - which four tournaments do you consider to be the "majors" of our sport?

-djb
 
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DoomCue said:
.....Personally, I think DCC, the WPC, the US Open, and the BCA Open are the majors. But, you could also throw in the World Games, the UPA Tour championship, the San Miguel championship, etc. What do you think - which four tournaments do you consider to be the "majors" of our sport?

-djb
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Obviously, you've got it right, Doomcue. Only the four events you've noted qualify as having elite international fields in which the elite of America, Asia and Europe all get together, and these are the four. Of course, the WPC is way above the other three. I'd rate the US Open, the BCA Open and the DCC as about equal to each other.

The world games....seriously, did you see the field...the women's field had just one of the current top 9 in the WPBA rankings competing, just Allison Fisher. Of the four best female players in Asia that don't play the WPBA, Shin Mei Liu participated, while Angela Pan, Rebecca Zhou, and Akimi Kajitani did not. I wonder if the World games belongs in the top 20 most important titles.

The San Miguel....this is an all Aisan tour and no tour that excludes participants on the basis of nationality belongs in this thread!

The UPA tour championship does not have an elite, balanced, international field.

There are other prestigious titles, but for a tournament to be viewed as a major, in my view, it has to have an elite and internationally balanced field.

Of course, it's all academic. Pool has NO majors.
 
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Not up there with the other outstanding 4 but the Tokyo open isn't too bad but mostly ASians and Europeans.

I would love to one day see a world tour including these 4, the soon to be announced (hopefully) British Open, A Euro Event like the Amsterdamn Open, and a couple more in Asia like the Taiwan, Phillipine and Korean Open.

Now how good would that be! One World ranking system and ten tournaments. DOuble points for the Worlds :-))

Oh shit, forgot nobody would be able to afford to play in them all lol! But hey maybe if it was structured like that then maybe it would attract the sponsors?
 
TheOne said:
Not up there with the other outstanding 4 but the Tokyo open isn't too bad but mostly ASians and Europeans.

I would love to one day see a world tour including these 4, the soon to be announced (hopefully) British Open, A Euro Event like the Amsterdamn Open, and a couple more in Asia like the Taiwan, Phillipine and Korean Open.

Now how good would that be! One World ranking system and ten tournaments. DOuble points for the Worlds :-))

Oh shit, forgot nobody would be able to afford to play in them all lol! But hey maybe if it was structured like that then maybe it would attract the sponsors?
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What TheOne said. :) tap tap tap

None of the U.S. pool tournaments is a major....they're all minors right now. The BCA doesn't do tournaments anymore, right? So that's gone, even though it should be a "major."

The US Open isn't even a paying tournament, from what I've heard. What kind of "major" is that???!!! It has a nice title, but...

The most "major" tournament is Jones/Sigel in August.

Jeff Livingston
 
The truest major in the wolrd is the WPC. Even though the US Open and the BCA are big tournaments, their fields are usually missing quite a few elite players. I would say there's 1 major (WPC) and 4 or more big tournaments (BCA, US Open, DCC, Tokyo Open). There are just not enough truely international tournaments in pool to have 4 majors the likes of tennis or golf.
 
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