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SnookerFan - Posts: 150785
- Joined: 13 December 2009
- Snooker Idol: Michaela Tabb
- Walk-On: Entry Of The Gladiators
SnookerFan wrote:https://wst.tv/2023-24-season-starts-with-betvictor-championship-league/
Yay!
McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
SnookerFan wrote:McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
I'll probably regret asking, but what were his recent comments?
SnookerFan wrote:McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
I'll probably regret asking, but what were his recent comments?
SnookerFan wrote:Will Graeme Bott be fixed? That's the question.
Juddernaut88 wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Will Graeme Bott be fixed? That's the question.
Who needs botty when we got Judders.
McManusFan wrote:SnookerFan wrote:McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
I'll probably regret asking, but what were his recent comments?
Something about mainly playing in the overseas events only this season.
McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
The_Abbott wrote:McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
theres still time for him to withdraw.
The_Abbott wrote:McManusFan wrote:WST have saved summer yet again.
Surprised Ronnie has entered this given his recent comments.
theres still time for him to withdraw.
Juddernaut88 wrote:I still don't understand why they need to have 2 championship leagues in the same season.
SnookerFan wrote:Juddernaut88 wrote:I still don't understand why they need to have 2 championship leagues in the same season.
I wish they'd do away with the whole thing, to be honest.
It only really existed to suck up to the betting sponsors. But that's when it was stuck out on betting websites, and there wasn't any attention drawn to it. And it didn't really matter. Now there's several of them in a season. Some of them have even been ranking events. I don't understand the WST's big boner about them. Are they a bit cheaper to host than proper tournaments? I don't know.
I can understand that they expanded it a bit when Covid was a thing, and a lot of Chinese tournaments weren't happening and the players needed earning opportunities. Even managed to get it on ITV 4.
But the world's moving on now, and the Chinese events are coming back. There's really no benefit to the Championshit League. Last time they had one, you had to have some divvy App that nobody has just to watch it. And when they do put it on TV, it's on low-key television channels that most people probably don't even know exist.
A few of us anoraks might dip in and out of it, if it's on Viaplay or whatever it's called now, but even we're not watching the whole lot of it. I suspect a lot of us aren't watching any of it at all, let alone the general television viewers who don't know it exists. It doesn't even let fans in to watch it.
There must be better ways of keeping the players busy without keep resorting to this bullocks every few months.
Juddernaut88 wrote:I still don't understand why they need to have 2 championship leagues in the same season.
Iranu wrote:I think there’s a place on the tour for a tournament or two that are basically paid match practice with a format that means players aren’t sitting on their bottom until the next one after one loss, particularly if it’s in the down season.
Obviously the CLs should be ranking, though.
SnookerFan wrote:I guess it's just frustrating that there's a lot more of them nowadays, than the one in January/February that there used to be.
SnookerFan wrote:Iranu wrote:I think there’s a place on the tour for a tournament or two that are basically paid match practice with a format that means players aren’t sitting on their bottom until the next one after one loss, particularly if it’s in the down season.
Obviously the CLs should be ranking, though.
Should be?