Wild WC wrote:vodkadiet wrote:There is no such thing as a snooker season any more. It is just a continuous, neverending sea of frames,matches, and tournaments, most of which mean nothing.
As snooker reaches saturation point, even diehard fans will become sick of the site of the latest 50 break and reach for the remote, just to turn over, to watch a repeat of Columbo.
Quality is better than quantity.
but it gives people snooker when they feel like watching it and not contained to a few weeks each year ...
this is how real sports is run you don't hear Golf,Tennis and Football fans complaining of too much so why should it be a problem for snooker ??
Yes I agree... I too am a diehard snookerfan.. I try to watch every tournament, every frame, every ball that is struck... But I come from a country (Portugal) where the summer is one of our main attracions, so when this period of the year comes around I don't watch as much snooker as I do when the summer finishes.... Snooker will always be an indoor sport, so when this freaking heat is around, it becomes quite difficult to just sit at home and watch it, when obviously there are better things to do, like going to the beach and have some fun with friends..
But yeah, I agree with this calendar, it's not saturation by any means, it's just, like Wild said, a chance for all people who like and follow snooker to watch it when they like... and most of the players agree with it.. And another funny thing is that 3 or 4 years ago, when we ONLY had 6 ranking events under the regime of Sir Stupid Walker, people were complaining that there should be more ranking events... Now that we have a proper snooker season, like in Tennis or Golf, people say it is becoming too much.... Better wake up for the real world because this is how a professional sport should be run.