Talk:International Pool Tour

26 October 2007 Move from K. Trudaeu Article

Unresolved

 – Material needs to be worked into IPT article.

Unused Material from merger Dvorak.typist 22:19, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[[Image:IPT Slogans.JPG|thumb|left|Slogans at IPT tournamaents]]Trudeau's investment into pool brought pool players from around the world out of the woodwork by investing millions of dollars in an attempt to elevate pool as a legitimate sport.

In October 2006, the IPT was criticized by some of the winners for failing to disburse in a timely manner approximately $3 million in prize funds to tournament competitors. [[Thorsten Hohmann]], a $350,000 winner from a July 2006 event said, "I'm the one who can leave with a smile, but it's just not right what Trudeau has done – all the lies."<ref name="IPT Woes">{{cite news |last=King |first=Mason |url=http://www.billiardsdigest.com/tournaments/display_article.php?article_id=400&tournament_id=16 |title=IPT Woes a Buzzkill for WPC Players |publisher=Billiards Digest.com |date=[[2006-11-09]] |accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> The IPT originally announced that they were only going to pay out one-third of the winnings at that time, but in November they announced that they will pay out the $3 million in monthly installments instead,<ref name="IPT Woes">{{cite news |last=King |first=Mason |url=http://www.billiardsdigest.com/tournaments/display_article.php?article_id=400&tournament_id=16 |title=IPT Woes a Buzzkill for WPC Players |publisher=Billiards Digest.com |date=2006-11-09 |accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> which have been two payments of about $38,000 each as of December 20<sup>th</sup>.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nathanielsz |first=Ronnie |url=http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports2_dec20_2006 |title=Trudeau pays IPT winners |publisher=Manilla Standard |date=[[2006-10-20]] |accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref> Due to this and other factors, all IPT events have been postponed by a few months, though no specific dates have been set yet.<ref>{{cite press release |title=2006 International Pool Tour Professional Season - IPT Announcement |publisher=International Pool Tour |date= |url=http://internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/event_schedule/default.asp |accessdate=2007-01-02}}</ref>

Publicity piece?

This page is nothing more than a publicity piece for the now defunct IPT. [The previous unsigned message was posted, to the actual article page, by 75.37.46.36 (talk · contribs), 03:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)]

It probably does need cleanup. There's no cited material suggesting that IPT is defunct. They have had financial problems, but that doesn't mean they no longer exist. (I don't have any evidence that they aren't defunct, but the presumption is that they are not; it is hard to prove a negative like that.) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 04:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

• The website listed remains active (appearing up-to-date), there were apparently some matches held in the fall of 2007, and there is a match scheduled for March of 2008. Until other proof of the company's supposed "defunct-ness" appears, I'm removing that line from the bottom of the article. Duncan1800 (talk) 10:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Money scandals

Editors, please watchlist this page and be on the lookout for any further attempts to "sanitize" this article of information relating to payment delays and other failed promises. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

it appears to have been sanitized again and my wiki prowess is still bad; anyone care to make the reverts? 137.45.184.108 (talk) 03:42, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

List of 2006 participants

In this edit~(reverted by me), a list of 2006 participants is listed, presumably coming from the IPT website, however the reference is 1: completely wrong and 2: needs the reference to the exact page from whence it came. Feel free to chew through and source this again. Katana (talk) 13:18, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

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Conflicting uncited information

In the Events section:

IPT World Open- 2006: …tour management insisted that players would be paid in full. Ultimately, the players were paid in full, but it took nine installments of 11% each to finally pay the players.

But in the Demise section:

…at the fourth, the IPT World Open tournament in Reno, Nevada, promoters announced that they did not have sufficient funds on hand to cover the purse. Winners were assured that they would receive their prizes in small installments, but most were never paid.

Which is it? Neither has any supporting documentation, and they cannot both be true. --Geoff Capp (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2019 (UTC)