randam05 wrote:Fair comment tubberland I understand, but lower ranked players like Hamilton will only do well in these sort of tournaments these days, so its a shame they have a short format where they can be unlucky, having said that the short format is probably the only reason these players do well as they get some luck in some of their results! so I guess its fine and I dont like to disagree with something that is new as its a start and I think these PTC events are a great addition and good start to the 'revamping' of snooker. But I do disagree with the world open as you have seen in my post under world open because it has replaced a longer format event. short format tournaments are great as extras nor replacements, so therefore I like the PTC events but not so much the world open although I will enjoy it um sure.
I get where you're coming from random, definitely. The thing with the Grand Prix though was it had become a very stale tournament. It's always been the poor relation of the four majors (I never considered it a major), and the BBC were threatening to drop it. You can hardly blame them, the 2009 Grand Prix was the worst ranking event I've watched outside of Bahrain (although admittedly 2008 was a cracker).
So you take the best aspect of the tournament, which was the open draw. Hearn has the UK Open in Darts, which serves as an FA Cup of the sport, and is HUGELY popular. It's a great model to follow, I suppose? Yeah, for me best of 5's is too long, but again, it's about as long as you can afford in a tournament like this.