Another negative post to introduce yourself to a thread. Someone should count all of your negative posts against your positive posts and let's see what the numbers show, but my over/under would be 95% negative.
Now, before you get all butthurt and start sending me PM's, I will finally answer the question you will inevitably ask after your childish meltdown and multiple count tirade of post's - "what have you done for pool".
Here's the top three things I feel I've done for pool, and I'll start from the bottom.
#3: I started a FaceBook group for our local area (FB: Treasure Valley Pool) that now has more than 800 active members. Most of them from the Pacific NW, which plays into number 2, which is going to be a long one.
#3 Bonus: The FB group associated with #2 below has close to 300 members, for a total of well over 1,000 active members - how many groups have you created that compare?
#2: I helped some friends start a local pool league with an initial prediction of 40-50 members but ended up with an initial enrollment of 81 active members and a current count of over 128 active members. Those members have flooded the local pool halls with so much busines that some of the halls have asked the league members to call ahead and schedule their matches to ensure a table is available. One local hall was working on incorporating the league scheduling into their website, another offered free pool for league matches, and yet another actually had their tables rebuilt and refelted for them (they may have actually purchased diamonds, but I can't remember) because of the added business - just after Covid to boot. All told, the first quarter had well over 300 matches played which encompassed over 4400 games (average that to 2 hours per match and it's 600 hours of customer time and money for local businesses). These matches were played in various pool halls/bars, and has brought thousands of dollars of businesses to local proprietors who had been struggling to survive. Oh, and shortly after 30 days of the first match they had the largest money added tournament our valley has ever seen. The beauty of it all is this boosts the overall image of our sport in the local area because they require a certain level of billiards etiqitue to be observed and they support the little guy, whether that's a business or a lower skilled level player. Clearly, in the pool world there are terminal rats (link below for those not in the know) like you, that habitually turn good things into bad things and any pool league experiences those situations but all of that is background noise compared to the lower level players that brag their FargoRate has increased 50 points because of this league...hint, my #1 thing will expand on that.
Terminal Rat -
Keeping to the league theme though: I am currently developing software to automate their process which will help them ultimately bring it to a national level which will involve state teams competing against each other as well as a larger, national level, annual tournement. As of right now there are up to 10 additional areas interested with an added 500+ members that could possibly come aboard, and that's just Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana
#2 bonuses: They have Tanner Pruess coming to Boise to put on a weekend clinic and they are/were working on having John Schmidt come to Boise to view his high run in straight pool. (disclaimer: I know they had it scheduled at one point but it fell through and they had it scheduled again but not sure if/when that did/was supposed to happen). Stuff like that builds excitement and continues to bring new players to the sport.
For more information:
http://www.boisetot.com
#1 The number one thing I've done for pool is...the smile I have created from the lower skilled level players when I helped them understand banks, combos, or the tangent line. I have been playing this game for a long time and feel I have knowledge to share (similar to you, respect earned is respect due) so I share it whenever possible. This includes my own opponents (yes, I have actually helped lower level players win games against me (and my own son, he wasn't so excited) because they were at a point of learning and were looking for advice so I offered it, and they were happy about it).
Honorable mention: Getting my son into pool and winning the session MVP award with him
And the final bonus of the things I've done for pool...
I've shut you up on more than one occasion
P.S. Since I've spent an unwarranted amount of time on responding to your drivel I may be tired and grumpy tomorrow and probably won't be so nice
