by Andre147 » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Goldenballs147 wrote:Watching this for the first time and while the format is interesting, the crowd participation is awful. I find it extremely distracting as a viewer and considering the time constraints you'd think quiet from the audience would be even more important than normal for the players.
It can be annoying at times, but the players aren't bothered, they already know there's going to be noise.
I quite like this event, i'snot proper Snooker by any means but it's just 3 days of pure fun, and a decent chance for players lower down the rankings to earn decent money and TV time, and who knows win the whole thing.
There's certainly room for this type of event once in a season, it makes much more sense having this on the calendar than the CL if you ask me.
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by SnookerFan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Andre147 wrote:Goldenballs147 wrote:Watching this for the first time and while the format is interesting, the crowd participation is awful. I find it extremely distracting as a viewer and considering the time constraints you'd think quiet from the audience would be even more important than normal for the players.
It can be annoying at times, but the players aren't bothered, they already know there's going to be noise.
I quite like this event, i'snot proper Snooker by any means but it's just 3 days of pure fun, and a decent chance for players lower down the rankings to earn decent money and TV time, and who knows win the whole thing.
There's certainly room for this type of event once in a season,
it makes much more sense having this on the calendar than the CL if you ask me.
Is there a tournament that isn't true for?
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by PoolBoy » 05 Mar 2015 Read
It's the first time I've watched this and I really enjoyed it! It was better than I was expecting as I thought it was going to be that one-frame event I'd seen on ITV a few years back. Turns out that was called Power Snooker.
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by davisfan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
It's okay, but it ain't Pot Black. As a spectacle it all reeks of trying too hard. Give me a bit of poise and hush over contrived gimmicks and manufactured atmosphere any day.
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by SnookerFan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
davisfan wrote:It's okay, but it ain't Pot Black. As a spectacle it all reeks of trying too hard. Give me a bit of poise and hush over contrived gimmicks and manufactured atmosphere any day.
Seems to be the Sky Sports way. Though I think they'd take the Worlds if they had the opportunity, I don't think they're too fussed about smaller ranking events or PTCs.
The advantages to Sky of the Shootout is that they know exactly how long each match is going to last. They also know it's a good event for casuals, as it's only over two days and can be dipped in and out of. Also, the crowd are encouraged to be a bit more rowdy, so they possibly think it looks better on TV.
It's something they can fill a couple of days worth of airtime with, without having to make any kind of serious commitment to snooker.
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by mantorok » 05 Mar 2015 Read
vodkadiet wrote:This shouldn't even be classed as snooker.
Why don't they have a tournament where the six colours are placed on the cushions and six players draw lots to see which colour they have, and the player whose colour is left on the table wins?
That has about the same amount of relevance.
This event makes the Championship League look like The World Championship.
Kudos to Neil Robertson for sticking 2 fingers up to this garbage.
It's called marketing.
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by mantorok » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Andre147 wrote:Goldenballs147 wrote:Watching this for the first time and while the format is interesting, the crowd participation is awful. I find it extremely distracting as a viewer and considering the time constraints you'd think quiet from the audience would be even more important than normal for the players.
It can be annoying at times, but the players aren't bothered, they already know there's going to be noise.
I quite like this event, i'snot proper Snooker by any means but it's just 3 days of pure fun, and a decent chance for players lower down the rankings to earn decent money and TV time, and who knows win the whole thing.
There's certainly room for this type of event once in a season, it makes much more sense having this on the calendar than the CL if you ask me.
Any snooker, under any coverage or format, is good promotion for the sport, if you enjoy these events even better.
Can't believe the whiners, no-one's forcing anyone to watch these events.
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Casual Skysports viewers may watch this and like it and that might bring them into the bigger events and they could eventually become fully fledged snooker fans.
I watched all of it last night and some of the frames were really exciting - nail-biting stuff.
Higgins made the trip to play two safety shots! Bit of an advantage that Mark had just won another tournament on the same table.
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by SnookerFan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
mantorok wrote:
Can't believe the whiners, no-one's forcing anyone to watch these events.
Pretty much. It's on a specialist sport's channel that not everybody has, and is on for two weekdays where most people are at work.
It's not like it's difficult to ignore.
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by PoolBoy » 05 Mar 2015 Read
On the 'Higgins two-shots then home' scenario, I remember once, a few years ago, travelling 60 miles and paying an entry fee to enter a 9-ball competition. First round was only best-of-3-racks. I only got one shot! Not one 'visit'. One shot!
Felt a right twit hiring a waistcoat and bow-tie for that - I just pretended I'd been at a wedding!
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
PoolBoy wrote:On the 'Higgins two-shots then home' scenario, I remember once, a few years ago, travelling 60 miles and paying an entry fee to enter a 9-ball competition. First round was only best-of-3-racks. I only got one shot! Not one 'visit'. One shot!
Felt a right twit hiring a waistcoat and bow-tie for that - I just pretended I'd been at a wedding!
Haha. This reminds of when I took on Imran Majid (the self-styled Maharajah of Pool) he was ranked number 3 in the UK at the time. I didn't know who he was, it was about 2am and we were both practising by ourselves so I asked him for a game and he said I'll race you to nine for £50 (I generally say yes to everything that's presented to me, because that's truly going with the flow and magic tends to lie down this path.) Anyway, I won the first frame, and I said 'winner breaks?' and he said sure. He beat me 9-1. I had chances in about half those frames, but at one point he ran 4 racks and when I realised how good he was my game crumbled. I sat back and enjoyed the show.
I'll get him next time!! :)
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by SnookerFan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Dan-cat wrote:
Haha. This reminds of when I took on Imran Majid (the self-styled Maharajah of Pool) he was ranked number 3 in the UK at the time. I didn't know who he was, it was about 2am and we were both practising by ourselves so I asked him for a game and he said I'll race you to nine for £50 (I generally say yes to everything that's presented to me, because that's truly going with the flow and magic tends to lie down this path.) Anyway, I won the first frame, and I said 'winner breaks?' and he said sure. He beat me 9-1. I had chances in about half those frames, but at one point he ran 4 racks and when I realised how good he was my game crumbled. I sat back and enjoyed the show.
I'll get him next time!! :)
Remember when they attempted to bring back Pot Black, and had an afternoon on Grandstand dedicated to it? Hendry traveled hundreds of miles to have one shot, botch it, then watch his opponent make a century.
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by SnookerFan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
masterdoctorgenius wrote:WC is out
The toilets are outside?
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by gcjdavid » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Stevens vs Morris now.
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by Andre147 » 05 Mar 2015 Read
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Haha surely this will make Vodkadiet watch!
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by Tamctus » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Epic interview with Ebdon there.
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
SnookerFan wrote:masterdoctorgenius wrote:WC is out
The toilets are outside?
They are at the end of the pier. I heard that Clive got caught short and had to go off the side
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Wingnut Walden vs Howling Higginson now
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by mantorok » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Remember when Cope was playing awesome all those years ago, what the hell happened to him?
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Yes Neal, all players from Leicester are good at positional play.
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by davisfan » 05 Mar 2015 Read
mantorok wrote:Remember when Cope was playing awesome all those years ago, what the hell happened to him?
Ah, those halcyon days of 2011.
Poor guy has the yips.
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Bingo beats Fergal, takes it with a 48 break
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by TheRocket » 05 Mar 2015 Read
YEELLLLLOOWWW
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
TheRocket wrote:YEELLLLLOOWWW
Hahaha!
Bingo: 'well if the crowd want a yellow, gotta give them a yellow!'
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Disastrous start for Ryan Day, immediately fouls and gives ball in hand to the Hitman
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by Dan-cat » 05 Mar 2015 Read
Holt breaks down on 14, safety battle and then Day fouls again! Fatal mistake under these rules. Put the white anywhere you like
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