Editor's note: The following is a statement issued by JP Fenix, managing director of Raya Sports. It is reprinted here in full.
WE note with regret the announcement that some players will boycott the pool events that Raya Sports is organizing this year and will continue to organize in keeping with its mission for the advancement of Filipino pool. This development will hamper in no way our plans for the year and beyond.
1. Whenever Raya organizes a tournament, we announce who are the players eligible and can apply for entry. We do not issue invitations. We do not force anyone to join. But our experience is that our tournaments -- the national championships and the world pool championships -- have usually overflowed with participants. If there are some players who don't want to join these events, that will therefore be their loss, not ours.
The tactic of boycotting events to enforce a demand is a familiar one of Mr. Aristeo Puyat, so we are not surprised. He employed it against the BSCP in many campaigns at the Southeast Asian Games and the Asian Games over the last 20 years, without much success. He is trying to use it now against Raya Sports, with the collusion of a couple of other managers. Obviously, he is envious of our success in staging major international events, whereas his tournaments, like the Negros Open immediately after the 2007 WPC, have been small, poorly organized and criticized by foreign players.
2. Raya’s events are staged in cooperation with other top organizations, notably Star Billiards for quality tables and ESPN-Star Sports, ABS-CBN, ABC and Solar Sports for TV coverage. We pay top prizes to the winners, and players get their money within a week of the event, not months as they do with rival promotions. We stage our events in quality venues; we do not run from one billiard parlor to another like some promoters. We take no commissions from players’ winnings. And we pay taxes.
3. Raya Sports is an official member of the World Pool-Billiard Association. It has official international status equal to Matchroom Sport and other promoters.
4. Mr. Yen Makabenta, the president of Raya Sports, is a licensed promoter by the Games and Amusement Board of the Philippines, a respected member of the international pool fraternity and known to players and pool officials worldwide. He was named Man of the Year last year by Billiards Digest, the biggest pool magazine in the world. He is currently a regular columnist for AZBilliards, the top international website of pool. He was instrumental in bringing the prestigious World Pool Championship to Manila in 2006 and 2007. And he has secured for the Philippines the five-year franchise for the World Ten Ball Championship starting this year.
5. The authority of sending Filipino players to international tournaments rests with the Billiards & Snooker Congress of the Philippines. The BSCP is part of the WPA system, being officially a member of the Asian Pocket Billiards Union. Tournaments like the world championships and the Guinness Pool Tour course their request for billiard players through the BSCP.
6. As for the players’ supposed grievances against Raya, we cannot comprehend them. We don’t owe any players any money. We were scrupulously fair to players in our tournaments. And we always gave them excellent TV exposure.
7. Those who have declared a boycott are only a fraction of our Filipino pool community. The great majority of our players do not support the BMPAP’s agenda of envy and negativism. They have expressed their full support for Raya and the BSCP and will play in our events. Pool honors are not won by saying you will not play. They are won by competing in tournaments that are fair, well organized, and recognized by international sports bodies.
-- JP Fenix, managing director, Raya Sports
Raya Sports issues statement on pool players' boycott
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very well said...
The Problem with Mr. Makabenta is, he owns Raya Sports and he is also the Billiards & Snooker Congress of the Philippines.
Its that Simple. That is a conflict of interest.
As a sports fan I feel bad for the players and I am with them in this issue.
Even Mr. Bernie Ecclestone does not do this in Formula 1. He just sees the commercial side of it and FIA see the technical and sporting aspects of the sport.
Cryst
it's all a matter of ethics..the problem with our fellow country men is that buking na sila nag mamalinis pa..
It looks like Makabenta is redefining and the meaning of " Conflict of Interest".
Technical corruption.
The problem really is that Makabenta was too busy multi-tasking - taking care of BSCP and taking care of money matters in Raya, the latter of which was given more preference.
He forgot that the professionals had managers and the managers were his suppliers for his events - be it within the scope of BSCP or of Raya. BSCP deals with amateurs and Raya expands to the Pros.
Makabenta has been consistent in one thing - arrogance. It was the reason why the managers went against him. He continues to use his arrogance in justifying his arrogance. His struggle in trying to smear and discredit BMPAP in order to justify his failure in keeping his supply side intact is nothing as compared to his future struggle to keep a significant spot in the Billiard scene. This makes his including pool idol Efren Bata in his hit list understandable - a clear manifestation of desperation.
It is not about money. The high chair did BSCP/Raya in. BMPAP has decided to go directly to the international tournament organizers and cut BSCP/Raya off as middlemen.
It is a clear case of mismanagement. You cannot sell an item without the capacity to supply it. He forgot about the supply side.
In an administrative set-up, it would be a mutiny. But in a free enterprise, it's nobody's fault but Makabenta's.