Re: Bazza's annual press conference
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Badsnookerplayer - Posts: 26554
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Godot wrote:Ronnie79 wrote:Hearn is full of sh1t. he said there would be 20 ranking events next season. it is down to 15 on the provisional calendar. World Open, International, European and Indian gone and the PHC is now a 16 man invitational. so it has gone from 20 down to 15. there is no way they will add 5 rankers at this stage. hearn is a liar.
Absolutely no chance Yushan (World Open) will not be a ranking event tbf. After spending hundreds of millions in redevelopment and creating a 'snooker city' in an attempt to rival the Crucible, the thought of them not hosting a ranking event would be baffling.
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Cahill's run at the WC has shades of the original Rocky film.
Lemnas wrote:Godot wrote:Ronnie79 wrote:Hearn is full of sh1t. he said there would be 20 ranking events next season. it is down to 15 on the provisional calendar. World Open, International, European and Indian gone and the PHC is now a 16 man invitational. so it has gone from 20 down to 15. there is no way they will add 5 rankers at this stage. hearn is a liar.
Absolutely no chance Yushan (World Open) will not be a ranking event tbf. After spending hundreds of millions in redevelopment and creating a 'snooker city' in an attempt to rival the Crucible, the thought of them not hosting a ranking event would be baffling.
I agree.
The calendar will look very similar to last season in the end I think. It is missing the World Open, International Championship, European Masters and Indian Open right now. The first three line up perfectly with the 'unknown' events in the provisional calendar at the same time of the year. World Snooker is probably going around asking other cities/sponsors for more money in case of the International Championship, so that one could be in a new city with a new name. I can't imagine that the Indian Open will be discontinued, because India is such a big market. They will have to move to January, but it has moved several times already time wise.
The Championship League will stay imo, but maybe with fewer players due to less time. Who cares anyway?
That leaves one new event in November directly prior to the UK Championship. I predict that it will be in Hong Kong and similar/slightly bigger to the other chinese events in terms of prize money. https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/ar ... d-schedule
Another detail I noticed is that there are no venues for Players Championship and WGP yet. They could be moved outside the UK.
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Ronnie79 wrote:TheRocket wrote:Godot wrote:https://twitter.com/WorldSnooker/status/1126787163125895168
World Snooker Awards: 2018/19 winners
Player of the Year – Judd Trump
Fans’ Player of the Year – Ronnie O’Sullivan
Snooker Writers’ Player of the Year – Judd Trump
Performance of the Year – James Cahill
Rookie of the Year – Joe O’Connor
Magic Moment of the Year – Ronnie O’Sullivan
Agree with most of them, but there is no way O'Connor should have won rookie of the year over Xintong. Zhao is ranked #58 and he has only completed year one of his card!
Cahill is a joke as well. Not trying to discredit his win but one win over ROS at the Crucible is surely not more worth or a better performance than winning a ranking title (beating 7 opponents along the way) like Jimmy Robertson has done. Thepchaiya won the Shootout so thats not a big deal but Jimmy Robertsons ranker was a proper achievement.
Maybe it's due to the fact that he gained a two year tour card via the one year list as an amateur ???????. a great achievement, which you are overlooking
So his award was for gaining a tour card?
vodkadiet1 wrote:Someone on the radio said that Barry Hearn was even more racist than Danny Baker last week. What happened?
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:vodkadiet1 wrote:Someone on the radio said that Barry Hearn was even more racist than Danny Baker last week. What happened?
He made some comment about slavery.
vodkadiet1 wrote:Someone on the radio said that Barry Hearn was even more racist than Danny Baker last week. What happened?
SnookerFan wrote:vodkadiet1 wrote:Someone on the radio said that Barry Hearn was even more racist than Danny Baker last week. What happened?
In my opinion, what Alan Sugar's Senegal "joke" on Twitter was easily as bad as what Danny Baker said. And wasn't a one-off from Sugar either.
I fail to see why Alan Sugar wasn't fired?
HappyCamper wrote:still two unconfirmed ranking events in january and march,
SnookerFan wrote:So, the European Masters won't be in October any more?
SnookerFan wrote:So, the European Masters won't be in October any more?
Lemnas wrote:SnookerFan wrote:So, the European Masters won't be in October any more?
It might not even be in Europe anymore.
HappyCamper wrote:the european masters is back on the menu. taking place in austria before the german masters.
it also forms part a new 'european series' similar to the home nations but with the german masers, european masters, gibraltar open, and for some reason the shoot-out i guess watford is in europe.
http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-e ... ord-level/
HappyCamper wrote:the european masters is back on the menu. taking place in austria before the german masters.
it also forms part a new 'european series' similar to the home nations but with the german masers, european masters, gibraltar open, and for some reason the shoot-out i guess watford is in europe.
http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-e ... ord-level/
HappyCamper wrote:the european masters is back on the menu. taking place in austria before the german masters.
it also forms part a new 'european series' similar to the home nations but with the german masers, european masters, gibraltar open, and for some reason the shoot-out i guess watford is in europe.
http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-e ... ord-level/
SnookerFan wrote:Where in Austria is it?
Lemnas wrote:HappyCamper wrote:the european masters is back on the menu. taking place in austria before the german masters.
it also forms part a new 'european series' similar to the home nations but with the german masers, european masters, gibraltar open, and for some reason the shoot-out i guess watford is in europe.
http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-e ... ord-level/
They also increased the prize money for the Shoot-Out and the Gibraltar Open. Essentially the two smallest tournaments of the last season (PHC and Gibraltar) are now combined into one event. Saves money and time for everyone and Germany even gets the European Masters in return.
The bonus for the series winner is probably to increase participation as more and more players don't play a lot anymore and to build up some attention for those four events, because they can't compete with the history of UK tournaments or the money and tv audiences of chinese tournaments right now.