by Dan-cat » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Two young guys on the table beside me today playing shoot out rules using an iPhone. They came to play snooker for the first time because they had watched the shootout.
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by Chalk McHugh » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Two young guys on the table beside me today playing shoot out rules using an iPhone. They came to play snooker for the first time because they had watched the shootout.
Two new fans already. Wow.
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by Lucky » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Two young guys on the table beside me today playing shoot out rules using an iPhone. They came to play snooker for the first time because they had watched the shootout.
My son is nine and has took an interest in it. Loses interest in proper snooker almost immediately. Snooker snobs should remove the blinkers and realise that just because there is snooker on most weekends the future is not guaranteed. Do kids today get any buzz from a final involving two players who were stars 15-20 years ago?
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by Pink Ball » 09 Feb 2018 Read
My only problem with it is that it has ranking points. It'd be just as likely to pull in fans if it was a non-ranking tournament. It has its moments, as a novelty.
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by Lucky » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:My only problem with it is that it has ranking points. It'd be just as likely to pull in fans if it was a non-ranking tournament. It has its moments, as a novelty.
One tournament out of how many? Does it do any harm? Some random from the 90's wins a 'proper' ranker and the fans rejoice......someone wins this and it's regarded as a joke. Anyone can enter, anyone can win, same as the other tournaments.
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by Pink Ball » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Lucky wrote:Pink Ball wrote:My only problem with it is that it has ranking points. It'd be just as likely to pull in fans if it was a non-ranking tournament. It has its moments, as a novelty.
One tournament out of how many? Does it do any harm? Some random from the 90's wins a 'proper' ranker and the fans rejoice......someone wins this and it's regarded as a joke. Anyone can enter, anyone can win, same as the other tournaments.
It did a great deal of harm to David Gilbert's season last time out
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by Pink Ball » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Why did Wild put it in the junkyard away from the other ranking tournaments. A hairy pair of bullocks packaged as a ranking tournament is still a ranking tournament.Likey or no likey
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by kolompar » 09 Feb 2018 Read
It's not even that bad that it's ranking, it's just unfair that it offers more ranking points than proper snooker like the Paul Hunter Classic.
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by Chalk McHugh » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Noooooooooooooo. I cant believe it. Robbed was Fergie. 6-5.
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by Lucky » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Why did Wild put it in the junkyard away from the other ranking tournaments. A hairy pair of bullocks packaged as a ranking tournament is still a ranking tournament.Likey or no likey
Imho Wild was WAY out of order here. Making judgements about a particular aspect of a sport, is not the way to run a forum. He isn't a fan, fair enough don't watch. But he slapped his gums about changes to the UK but never misses a ball.....
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by Lou147 » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Lucky wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Why did Wild put it in the junkyard away from the other ranking tournaments. A hairy pair of bullocks packaged as a ranking tournament is still a ranking tournament.Likey or no likey
Imho Wild was WAY out of order here. Making judgements about a particular aspect of a sport, is not the way to run a forum. He isn't a fan, fair enough don't watch. But he slapped his gums about changes to the UK but never misses a ball.....
Its not like hes making a point to someone either, cause its in a forum full of people who agree with him
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by Iranu » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Lucky wrote:
One tournament out of how many? Does it do any harm?
If Dan-Cat's experience above becomes commonplace, and if that gives Hearn an excuse to change the rest of the calendar to make it more similar to the Shoot Out then yes, it will do harm.
Of course that's hypothetical at this stage.
For my part, the worst aspect of this tournament is the crowd noise. It just doesn't fit and it messes with my head.
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by Pink Ball » 09 Feb 2018 Read
Iranu wrote:Lucky wrote:
One tournament out of how many? Does it do any harm?
If Dan-Cat's experience above becomes commonplace, and if that gives Hearn an excuse to change the rest of the calendar to make it more similar to the Shoot Out then yes, it will do harm.
Of course that's hypothetical at this stage.
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by Iranu » 09 Feb 2018 Read
kolompar wrote:It's not even that bad that it's ranking, it's just unfair that it offers more ranking points than proper snooker like the Paul Hunter Classic.
It's an exhibition with ranking points. Any number of points is too many.
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by Iranu » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Is there a shot clock timer on the interviews as well?
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by Lucky » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Iranu wrote:Lucky wrote:
One tournament out of how many? Does it do any harm?
If Dan-Cat's experience above becomes commonplace, and if that gives Hearn an excuse to change the rest of the calendar to make it more similar to the Shoot Out then yes, it will do harm.
Of course that's hypothetical at this stage.
For my part, the worst aspect of this tournament is the crowd noise. It just doesn't fit and it messes with my head.
If it makes people take up snooker then that's a negative?
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by Lucky » 10 Feb 2018 Read
New fans, ranking points, players taking part....which is the deciding factor?
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by Pink Ball » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Lucky wrote:New fans, ranking points, players taking part....which is the deciding factor?
I want it to pull in more fans that was always the idea behind it. But I think it would do that just as effectively if it was a non-ranking tournament.
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by Lucky » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Pink Ball wrote:Lucky wrote:New fans, ranking points, players taking part....which is the deciding factor?
I want it to pull in more fans that was always the idea behind it. But I think it would do that just as effectively if it was a non-ranking tournament.
But getting players playing?
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by SnookerFan » 10 Feb 2018 Read
I don't understand that people think pointing out the fact that the Shootout has fans, can be fun or is a novelty event defends anything. Is anybody claiming otherwise?
The Shootout's existence isn't the problem. It's ranking points is the problem. Nothing else.
Strip it's ranking status, problem solved.
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by Alex0paul » 10 Feb 2018 Read
The ranking points adds to the mystical nature of the event.
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by Pink Ball » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Lucky wrote:Pink Ball wrote:Lucky wrote:New fans, ranking points, players taking part....which is the deciding factor?
I want it to pull in more fans that was always the idea behind it. But I think it would do that just as effectively if it was a non-ranking tournament.
But getting players playing?
Well, the strength of the field is much weaker since they introduced ranking points.
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by Pink Ball » 10 Feb 2018 Read
SnookerFan wrote:I don't understand that people think pointing out the fact that the Shootout has fans, can be fun or is a novelty event defends anything. Is anybody claiming otherwise?
The Shootout's existence isn't the problem. It's ranking points is the problem. Nothing else.
Strip it's ranking status, problem solved.
I actually enjoyed it much more when it was a non-ranking event. It has its entertaining moments. And there is cash at stake, so it was never worthless.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Two young guys on the table beside me today playing shoot out rules using an iPhone. They came to play snooker for the first time because they had watched the shootout.
Reminds of playing the game where you have ten balls and try to pot as many as you can in 40 seconds from Big Brake.
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by SnookerFan » 10 Feb 2018 Read
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Dan-cat wrote:Two young guys on the table beside me today playing shoot out rules using an iPhone. They came to play snooker for the first time because they had watched the shootout.
Reminds of playing the game where you have ten balls and try to pot as many as you can in 40 seconds from Big Brake.
Was it a ranking event.
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by Snooker89 » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Barry Hearn said last year that the tournament would be reviewed after this season. i think it should be scrapped and a real tounament taking its place. Something like the Irish Masters at Goffs.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 10 Feb 2018 Read
Whilst many view this as a bletcherous tournament of no value, I would like to see it continue in it's current format. I can see the argument for removing it's ranking status but it does offer the lowest ranked players a once in a season opportunity to 'get out of jail'.
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