Could someone please explain to me the appeal of Marcel the shell with shoes on? Everyone seems to dig this vid, but I don’t get it. I’ll be at BW3 all day tomorrow getting my drink on, grubbing on wings and watching the official kickoff of the real sports season, but I’m sure I’ll be back early next week with something inane and moronic to say.
So for who knows how long, the Riv has been the go to hotel for pool tournaments. I’m pretty sure that the only people who stay at the Riv during the months of May and August are pool players and let’s be honest, who the hell would want to stay there if they didn’t have to?
Anyway, since the Riv probably won’t be around much past, oh let’s say the end of 2013, leagues are starting to sniff around for other places to host their events. The ACS was the first to leave, announcing that their tournament would be at the Trop next year. Because the Trop is so much nicer than the Riv. But that’s not the point. Where it gets interesting is that the ACS event is now scheduled to overlap with the annual BCA apple bob. As an overhyped figure skater once said “whyyy? whyyyy?”.
That’s right. We’re going to take a small audience and fragment it even further, forcing people to choose. That makes sense. When you’re scheduling an event, use the Super Sweet Sixteen method. Check with everyone else in your circle who’s planning to throw a shindig around that time and work it out so you don’t force people to choose. Especially if you’re the fringe girl trying to compete with a Kardashian.
Because this is the billiards industry, no date conflict can happen without a epic scale pissing match. The ACS changes the date and place which prompts the BCA to send their “here’s why you need to pick our side” letter. The ACS then responds with their “Damn yo! Why you gotta hate? We may be small, but we’re not that small!” retort.
The BCA contends that the conflict will force people to choose while the ACS says that this is better for pool players because they don’t have to spend 5 weeks in Vegas. One could make the argument that the BCA did nothing wrong because their date was already set (which is true). Its also true that the BCA is quite a bit larger than the ACS. Which begs the question of why the BCA felt the need to go on the offensive. The other side of this is that if the ACS was so worried about their members being able to optimize their schedules, they would have started their show right after the BCA show ended (it used to be 2 weeks between the events) instead of having it overlap.
The reality of course falls somewhere in between. The events have a few days of overlap which will likely impact some players, but its not nearly as bad as the BCA wants you to believe. ACS claims that the dates they chose were the only ones available which may be true, although considering the size of their event, almost any hotel in Vegas with convention space (which is almost all of them) would be able to host it.
Whatev. I’m so tired of this crap. Just another example of how the industry is happy to fragment itself into oblivion. What you won’t see though is anyone picking a fight with the APA. If the BCA is a Khloe or a Kourtney, the APA is a Kim. Too bad all the girls can’t just play nice and get along.
