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Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby Andre147

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby SnookerFan

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?

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby PoolBoy

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby davisfan

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby SnookerFan

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby mantorok

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby mantorok

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby Dan-cat

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.

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby SnookerFan

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. :-D

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby PoolBoy

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!

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby Dan-cat

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!! :)

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby SnookerFan

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. rofl

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby Andre147

Vodka will love that rofl rofl rofl

Ebdon shouting VEGAN POWER all over the place rofl :mosh2: :mosh2: :mosh2:

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby Dan-cat

SnookerFan wrote:
masterdoctorgenius wrote:WC is out


The toilets are outside? :gag:


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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Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby mantorok

Remember when Cope was playing awesome all those years ago, what the hell happened to him?

Re: BetWay Snooker Shoot-Out

Postby davisfan

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.