Do you see Challenge (winner stays on / quarters on the rail, waiting to play the winner) tables going on anymore?

This is something that I have not seen, or experienced in what seems like ages.

It is not something you would see at a pool hall, but it is something you might see at a bar, with maybe only a few Valley coin op bar tables.

Back in the early 2000's, after my home town pool hall ran out of business, I would spend all of my nights going to this bar, that had 3 Valley coin op tables.

It is / was in a college town, and back in the early 2000's, the college kids loved to play pool.

So, on any day of the week, from maybe 9pm, until 2am, you could walk into the bar, and see like 6-10 stacks of quarters on the rail, with people waiting to play the winner of the next game.

I miss those days so much. It was such a good time, even though I was not a drinker. I just loved to play pool.

The players were rarely that good, so I could hold the table for a very long time, once I got my turn. Sometimes, I could hold it until 2am, when the bar closed.

And, the quarters never dried up. They just kept putting their quarters on the rail.

But lol, it would get so packed sometimes, in that bar, that I would constantly have to say "excuse me" to the people just standing around drinking, because there were no seats at the bar.

Anyways, I really miss that.

I imagine that it is just not a thing anymore, because I have never seen it again, ever since back in the early to mid 2000's.

Curious if you see it anywhere in your local town, that might only have a few coin op bar tables, where a lot of people love to shoot pool.

I now have a Cuelees cue and am quite impressed with it!

This is the Tyrant 2. I've been impressed with Cuelees' designs for some time now, and the report is that you get great quality & detail for the price. This cue supports that report fully, in my opinion. I wish I had ordered a Cuelees sooner: I may order another in the future. It plays great, by the way, with a dark roasted maple shaft I have. I will try a few different CF shafts I have soon.

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I am going to geek out and allow the OCD, math, and logic in me run free:

1, 2, 3 are primary colors
1 = Yellow
2= Blue
3 = Red

Using a purely math progression:
4, SHOULD BE: 1 + 2, Yellow + Blue = Green;
5 SHOULD BE : 1 + 3, Yellow + Red = Orange;
6 SHOULD BE 2 + 3, Blue + Red = Purple
7 SHOULD BE mud-blood, Yellow + Blue + Red = Brown
8 SHOULD BE no color, i.e., Black
And of course the CB is all colors, White

But that's not how it was developed. 4 is Purple, 2 Blue + 3 Red; 5 is orange 1 Yellow + 3 Red; I don't agree but it's legacy.

I can almost see how the original colors were developed. 1 combo with 2; 2 combo with 3 for Purple for 4, 1 combo with 3 Orange for 5. So let's allow the long, long history of 4 Purple, 5 Orange and 6 Green stand.

It is egregious that the long-standing colors, needing to be adjusted to satisfy the requirements of clarity for TV screens, one color should NEVER have replaced a legacy color. It's that simple. F*$% purple 5's. I don't care how successful you are promoting the game. Violating history by reassigning a legacy color to a different number is simply wrong.

Color me blue for my relative inability to deal with grey; I'm a black-and-white person. (See what I did there? LOL)
Thank you for this. I contend that there was no problem with the original ball colors on TV. All the cameramen had to do was close (pull in) on the balls to see any and all of them very clearly. That's called good camera work, which is often lacking in television and streaming matches.

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