You are right. My old eyes fail me sometimes.
WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12
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It should probably be mentioned that she has done all of this while being fought tooth and nail every step of the way by the WPA parasites.
The way that they have handled streaming, and the availability to watch outside of broadcast partnerships, has been atrocious. It started with the DAZN partnership, and has graduated to the complete lack of availability to watch by the US audience without paying for yet another poorly implemented streaming service. There has been no coherent schedule for simple things like being able to schedule a time to watch a match. Things are great for almost every audience but the North American audience, which is a significant market that is worth pursing. Matchroom is in no way going to win the viewership of the average US league pool player with this approach. Stream it for free for the US audience via something widely available on TV sets, like youtube.
Their choices in emcees has also been terrible in my opinion, but that is probably mostly a matter of taste.
you do know that europeans also have to pay to watch MR events, and has always had to? sometimes more than US/canada. i set my VPN to US in order to use WNTTV, instead of viaplay for $42/month
Thanks for your well-considered insights.
Agreed that DAZN was a nightmare and that the streaming services that have replaced it are not yet good enough. Also agreed that WPA has obstructed Emily's plans in ways that almost qualify as malicious, but she has, for the most part, fought through it and continued to grow her tour.
WNT match schedules, in my experience, are always available on the WNT live scoring app. For example, during the Hanoi Open, I always looked up the schedule for the next round and matches, so I was able to plan around it.
Although, as you have noted, they need to do more to make the WNT product more accessible to the America-based viewer, Matchroom made a very big investment this year in American pool, rolling the dice on a new major in Florida. I attended and it was wonderful.
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I have seen several posts from you over the years where you wished for or valued the success for a woman/women over the success for whoever was most deserving based on merit. That shows a clear bias in favor of women at times, even if that isn't the value you aspire to, and so it is certainly possible that your current bias for Emily could be in part due to that. What's between somebody's legs should never, ever, make any difference to us though, nor is it ever a form of merit.
That is not what I said though. I said that I haven't seen anything that we know of that we know that she herself has done well as opposed to her team (but should have instead said "that has been particularly impressive"), but we can sure point to many cases of her pure incompetence. And I'm talking at the CEO level type stuff, not things like "she shows up for work on time every single day" or "she works hard".
If true (and we don't actually know what part of the credit for that is due to her verses due to the team around her, but if true...), then her position with Matchroom should very clearly be in sales or PR because that is where her competency actually lies. Where her competency very clearly does not lie is in being CEO, as she has displayed many egregious incompetencies in the type of decision making needed at that level.
Matchroom already had the know how for making niche sports successful long before Emily ever came along. It is exactly what they do, their very purpose, and they have a long track record of doing it so that framework and team with that know how is already solidly in place. You are acting like Emily has come up with something when the whole company is literally long built around the very formula of doing that.
In the business world it is customary for people to feel that when a CEO displays gross incompetencies that they should be replaced by somebody who is actually competent.
I've not said any such thing, although the exact opposite of that is exactly what you keep saying, that anything good that has happened must be because of Emily and can't be because of anybody else. What I've said is that of the good things, we don't know for sure how to attribute them (they could be due to Emily, or they could be due to the team, or some mixture of both). But without question we can attribute incompetencies at the disqualifying level to Emily.
To my knowledge they never made any serious effort to grow pool for whatever their reasons at the time, so of course they weren't likely to grow pool when they didn't seriously try to grow pool.
We don't know that either of those things has happened unless you are privy to their financial statements. Even if it does ultimately happen, knowing that Matchroom already had the know how and experience for making that happen since they have done it several times previously in other sports, and knowing how incompetent Emily has been on even very basic common sense type things, would make guessing the amount of attribution each of them is likely to be due a pretty common sense proposition to guess for anybody that just looks at the facts. I do hope it ultimately does become and prove viable though (if they get rid of that abominable purple five ball anyway) regardless of who is most responsible for making that happen.
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Here is the bottom line. If Emily doesn't even have enough sense not to put the color purple onto the wrong ball number (the five ball) when for all practical purposes it has exclusively been used only for the four ball all around the world for hundreds of years and they are inextricably linked, what on earth would make you think she is some secret genius the rest of the time on everything else? Your average 7 year old would know better that to do something so obviously dumb, but yet you would have us believe that she she is otherwise some secret genius?
And if she doesn't even have enough sense not to employ as her head referee someone who has repeatedly proven that he does not possess the knowledge that would make him capable of making even the very most basic and obvious of calls correctly, tell me what again would lead you to believe she is some secret genius the rest of the time on everything else? On this one even your average 5 year old would know better than to ever allow it to be able to happen, forget about needing to be 7. But Emily would run circles around Stephen Hawking the rest of the time outside of all the times of sheer stupidity and gross incompetence, right?
Look, nobody can seriously believe that someone that doesn't even have enough common sense to get rid of a purple five ball or to get rid of a head ref that can't make even the most basic of calls accurately is actually competent to be CEO. She clearly is not the sharpest tool in the shed, clearly is not cut out to be CEO, and clearly needs to be replaced by somebody who does actually have the competency for it. It would be best of all if she could also be placed in the position for which her competencies do actually lie, which might be sales or PR, or might be something else. Fortunately in the mean time the team behind her has been able to prop her up and hold things down for the most part.