Pink Ribbon 2017

[Neil Taperell]

http://www.swsasnooker.com/_p/prd14/...nk-ribbon-2017

[Londonlad147]

Forgive my ignorance but what is pink ribbon?
Is it an event?

Allegedly the largest snooker pro-am in the world!

Amateurs can enter twice (so will get drawn in both halves). In 2015 they had about 370-odd entries.

[the lone wolf]

Thanks Neil. Thank you Londonlad... :snooker:

[tomwalker147]

Has the format changed Tom?

I was joking with Tedisbill, I met him at a competition recently in Bilston. Ted was in the quarters of the plate competition and had to give a guy something like 28 points start. The guy knocked in 50 odd first frame, we love handicaps!

I think the format is the same as last year, £25 per entry and you can enter twice (double elim)

[GeordieDS]

I was joking with Tedisbill, I met him at a competition recently in Bilston. Ted was in the quarters of the plate competition and had to give a guy something like 28 points start. The guy knocked in 50 odd first frame, we love handicaps!

I think the format is the same as last year, £25 per entry and you can enter twice (double elim)

Handicaps are great, I beat a mate in the semi of the plate getting 14 a frame, the following tournament i beat him in the final of the plate getting 17(the fact i was in the plate two tournaments in a row shows my true talent though)

[tomwalker147]

Handicaps are great, I beat a mate in the semi of the plate getting 14 a frame, the following tournament i beat him in the final of the plate getting 17(the fact i was in the plate two tournaments in a row shows my true talent though)

Geordie, I'm not a morning person (that's usually my excuse for getting knocked out of the main events and winning the plates instead )

[GeordieDS]

Geordie, I'm not a morning person (that's usually my excuse for getting knocked out of the main events and winning the plates instead )

Class
I'm that bad the last plate i won it reported in the local paper I had lost, Stan Chambers obviously thought the report he received was a typo and corrected it:biggrin-new:

[tedisbill]

So far so good in the Pink Ribbon. Won my opening 3 matches and now I've drawn Jack Lisowski on Saturday

I get 18 start as he's a pro. Although I've got a feeling I might need more

[tomwalker147]

So far so good in the Pink Ribbon. Won my opening 3 matches and now I've drawn Jack Lisowski on Saturday

I get 18 start as he's a pro. Although I've got a feeling I might need more

Well played mate, I lost in the Thursday and Friday final rounds to qualify for Saturday. You played well from what I saw, especially against Lisowski.
Great few days away!

[tedisbill]

Well played mate, I lost in the Thursday and Friday final rounds to qualify for Saturday. You played well from what I saw, especially against Lisowski.
Great few days away!

Cheers mate.

How did play Tom? Did you struggle or just lost tough matches? You're normally playing good people by the time you're in that third round.

I'm definitely gonna stop out next year. Was too much traveling down each day. Got home on Friday at 2:30am and then had to be back to play Jack at 10:30am. 3 hours sleep. I was absolutely dead ha!!

[tomwalker147]

Cheers mate.

How did play Tom? Did you struggle or just lost tough matches? You're normally playing good people by the time you're in that third round.

I'm definitely gonna stop out next year. Was too much traveling down each day. Got home on Friday at 2:30am and then had to be back to play Jack at 10:30am. 3 hours sleep. I was absolutely dead ha!!

I struggled on Thursday, I lost to Barry Stark who played incredibly solid. I wasn't at the races though. I was still playing that match at gone 11pm having played my first match at 10am, couldn't concentrate at all.
Friday I played much better but went 2-0 down against a decent player, I made 74 in the 4th frame but lost a tactical decider on the pink to just miss out. I won all my matches 3-2 which probably took a lot out of me to be honest!
And my opponent on the Friday had 4 byes over the two days and had barely played which helped him!

You should stay over next year, we booked up early it cost £70 each for 2 nights which was decent. God knows how you started so well against jack having had 3 hours sleep lol

[itsnoteasy]

Well done Ted and Tom, out and about mixing it with the big boys!

[tedisbill]

Well done Ted and Tom, out and about mixing it with the big boys!

Thanks mate. Was good fun!

[Londonlad147]

Glad you all enjoyed Pink Ribbon. Scheduling of matches is a nightmare, especially when so many people pull out last minute or don't show up without notice.

[JohnF14722]

Cheers mate.

How did play Tom? Did you struggle or just lost tough matches? You're normally playing good people by the time you're in that third round.

I'm definitely gonna stop out next year. Was too much traveling down each day. Got home on Friday at 2:30am and then had to be back to play Jack at 10:30am. 3 hours sleep. I was absolutely dead ha!!

Are you the guy that I spoke to from near Birmingham?

Just an update on how I did, I lost in the last 32 and the last 64.

I played well on Thursday, only had to win one match to get through but against a tough opponent, I had 80 off his break in the first frame and 102 off a long red in the second, ended up winning 3-1. Then I struggled through my two matches on Friday, won 3-0 and 3-1.
Saturday morning I won 4-0, played solid, then I had a my 2nd last 64 match. I lost 4-2 in a gruelling match against Rob James, the eventual runner up. I was very unlucky, I could've been 4-0 up but the level of the table let me down playing a few key shots towards the end of frames which completely changed the outcome of the match! I played decent, had an 81 to go 2-1 up. Just nothing went for me in the last few frames!
After that I was completely knackered, was suffering from a bad cold and eyes were struggling under the lights, played terrible in my last 32 match and lost 4-0 haha!

Overall pleased with how I played as I've not felt that confident knocking in big breaks in a competition before!