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BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby Wildey

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Group 1 4th and 5th of January
Group 2 6th and 7th of January
Group 3 8th and 9th of January
Group 4 8th and 9th of February
Group 5 10th and 11th of February
Group 6 12th and 13th of February
Group 7 29th and 30th of March
Winners Group 31st of March and 1st of April


14th year of this bizarre event won 3 times by Judd Trump in 2009, 2014 and 2016.

2020 was the year of the Championship league it was a bit like Covid just can't shake the bloody thing off it even was a ranking event after Barry Hearn had a senile Moment but its now back as it was originally planned if you can ever call this thing planned.

7 Groups to find 7 players to play in the Winners Group who will the lucky ones be yeyy even more matches in milton keynes for the luckiest of the luckiest.

Group 1 Players
John Higgins
Stuart Bingham
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Gary Wilson
Zhou Yuelong
Graeme Dott
Michael Holt

DRAW and GROUP TABLE

ORDER OF PLAY

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Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby chengdufan

I'm baffled as to why every tournament seems to have to be 'The Championship League'. Traditionally, it's been the one event that has held 0 interest for me.
Switch up the format a bit fellas. Give it a different name. Something!

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby SnookerEd25

SnookerFan wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:Not a huge fan, but more justification for making this a Ranking Event than the #<€€%\| sh**t o*t


How boring.

Can't you let that go?

:john:


And do what instead ?

Keep an eye on Yan Bingtao?

:grrr:

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby SnookerEd25

chengdufan wrote:I'm baffled as to why every tournament seems to have to be 'The Championship League'. Traditionally, it's been the one event that has held 0 interest for me.
Switch up the format a bit fellas. Give it a different name. Something!


Back in May, we dubbed it the Covid Classic.

I rather liked that...

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby SnookerFan

Cloud Strife wrote:What a waste of time. They could have used to this space in the calendar and resources to put on something more worthwhile than this tripe.


This is the proper Championship League. In that, this is it's traditional placement in the calendar. So maybe they just didn't want to change it.

But then again, we've had two of them already in the last twelve months and everything is already set up in Milton Keynes anyway, so you wonder if they couldn't come up with something better. Even a tournament that has the same format as the Home Nations events that's called The Milton Keynes Classic or something would be better than The Championshit League.
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Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby lhpirnie

SnookerFan wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:What a waste of time. They could have used to this space in the calendar and resources to put on something more worthwhile than this tripe.


This is the proper Championship League. In that, this is it's traditional placement in the calendar. So maybe they just didn't want to change it.

But then again, we've had two of them already in the last twelve months and everything is already set up in Milton Keynes anyway, so you wonder if they couldn't come up with something better. Even a tournament that has the same format as the Home Nations events that's called The Milton Keynes Classic or something would be better than The Championshit League.

Well, they try to keep any events going that they can, for contractual reasons. The other 'Championship League' events were completely different formats, and now we have the 'Pro Series' as well.


The formats are devised to spread a little tournament over several weeks, to give the impression of a healthy game. In reality, the majority of players on the tour only have 4 days actual play until the World Championship.

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby Dan-cat

Alex0paul wrote:Why can't they hold some old style PTC events?


This basically is a lot of PTCS strung together.

It's snooker. Best of 5s. Normal rules. For prize money. Dave Hendon and Dom Dale in the box.

How is this different from any of the other tournaments last year?

Moaning numpties.

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby Dan-cat

Tournament Format

Matches are best of 5 frames, and the league is played from January to April 2021. The competition runs over eight groups, each consisting of seven players. From each group the top four qualify for a play-off, and the winners of the first seven play-offs qualify for the winners group.


Clear as mud <laugh>

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby Alex0paul

Dan-cat wrote:
Alex0paul wrote:Why can't they hold some old style PTC events?


This basically is a lot of PTCS strung together.

It's snooker. Best of 5s. Normal rules. For prize money. Dave Hendon and Dom Dale in the box.

How is this different from any of the other tournaments last year?

Moaning numpties.


It’s not though is it. It’s not straight knockout snooker

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby SnookerEd25

Prop wrote:Anyone watching this on the Freesports iPad app? It’s bloody upside down!

Anyway, not to worry. Dom D in comms <ok>


Tried it, it was upside down for me too, but I wanted to watch the other table anyway so now on Matchroom Live

Re: BetVictor Championship League Snooker 2021 !!

Postby SnookerEd25

Wilson had the points at his mercy but bungked a straightforward pink.

Dott takes the frame with a 41 and a couple of impressive rest shots therein, particularly a tricky red down the cushion.