Players Champs Draw

The draw and format for the Players Champs has been released:

http://www.worldsnooker.com/ladbrokes-p ... -format-2/

Fair to say this is very similar to The Masters, but with a ranking status.

Wouldn't mind Ronnie winning another one of these ITV events... Hope he and Allen meet in the Quarter-Finals.

And hope Day has a good run to see him qualify straight to Sheffield.

Draw looks good. Some tasty matches.

proper snooker, no numpties and long(er) matches.

boris_the_butcher wrote:proper snooker, no numpties and long(er) matches.

Absolutely. The sumptuous ITV coverage, best of 11s from the start... can't wait!!

boris_the_butcher wrote:proper snooker, no numpties and long(er) matches.

Ronnie's there.

His horrendous decline has moved him into numpty status.

Talking of which, a possible Ronnie vs Ding Quarter-Final.

Still think Ding has a bit of a block about beating him, despite that Crucible victory. I hope he proves me wrong.

You can never tell which Ding will turn up.

Llandudno is somewhere I'd consider visiting, if I'm honest. Proper length matches...

Still considering what tournaments to make next season.

Aaah, mate.

Mark Williams vs Yan Bingtao is on during the afternoon. What bell thought that would be a good idea? I'll miss it due to work.

Why are all the best matches on during the afternoon?

ITV just wanting to make sure all the Ronnie matches are in the evening I guess.

Can't remember why, but they do often out the best matches on during the afternoon. The BBC do it too at the Worlds. I guess because daytime viewers are harder to get than evening ones?

For the BBC, I guess, it's because they don't put live matches on the main channel in the evening, only Red Button. You could argue that's their choice to do, and it is. But their reasoning would be they want the best matches on the main channel, so put it on the afternoon.

ITV tend to organise it so they can get Ronnie on in the evening, as that's who most people watch. Irregardless of whether there are better matches on or not.

SnookerFan wrote:For the BBC, I guess, it's because they don't put live matches on the main channel in the evening, only Red Button. You could argue that's their choice to do, and it is. But their reasoning would be they want the best matches on the main channel, so put it on the afternoon.

ITV tend to organise it so they can get Ronnie on in the evening, as that's who most people watch. Irregardless of whether there are better matches on or not.

Yes I forgot that element. As I watch online the whole time I don't follow the broadcast slots.

If the ITV coverage was a girl I'd marry her.

You'd turn your back on Latvia?

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:For the BBC, I guess, it's because they don't put live matches on the main channel in the evening, only Red Button. You could argue that's their choice to do, and it is. But their reasoning would be they want the best matches on the main channel, so put it on the afternoon.

ITV tend to organise it so they can get Ronnie on in the evening, as that's who most people watch. Irregardless of whether there are better matches on or not.

Yes I forgot that element. As I watch online the whole time I don't follow the broadcast slots.

If the ITV coverage was a girl I'd marry her.

Do you really never watch anything on television?

Really. I don’t have a TV. I watch on my MacBook (pretty big screen) and occasionally plug into a projector.

SnookerFan wrote:You'd turn your back on Latvia?

I’d keep her on as a side chick.

Dan-cat wrote:Really. I don’t have a TV. I watch on my MacBook (pretty big screen) and occasionally plug into a projector.

I only just got Tivo last week. I hadn't been able to tape stuff until then. Used to get my parents to Sky Plus the Chinese tournaments for me, and doss there for a week.

I'm so not with it.

Dan-cat wrote:Really. I don’t have a TV.

Me neither. I watch everything on my laptop. Eurosport player and youtube mostly. I also watch some tv programs on the websites of the tv channels.

It's funny, because a few years ago, everybody was going on about big screen TVs. They seemed to be the must-have thing, and you'd get these knobheads who defined themselves as how big their TV screen was. It was the sort of thing they'd tell you when you turned the television on; "This screen is 50-inch." And you'd be like; "Oh."

Now everybody watches these things on tiny tablets, or mobile phones...

Typical me, I only got a flat screen TV about three or four years ago. Before that I had a box set.

When the final round of the qualifiers were live on youtube last year I had to watch it on tv, same for any decent length videos. It doesn't have to be a huge tv. I can watch stuff on a laptop or tablet but apart from short videos I don't watch much on my phone.

SnookerFan wrote:It's funny, because a few I only got a flat screen TV about three or four years ago. Before that I had a box set.

Was it the Breakin’ Bad box set? Or the Sopranos?

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:It's funny, because a few I only got a flat screen TV about three or four years ago. Before that I had a box set.

Was it the Breakin’ Bad box set? Or the Sopranos?

1960s Batman.

Looking forward to some top matches

SnookerFan wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:It's funny, because a few I only got a flat screen TV about three or four years ago. Before that I had a box set.

Was it the Breakin’ Bad box set? Or the Sopranos?

1960s Batman.

Have you met my mate Cathode Ray?