2020 UK Championship

[JimMalone]

The Top 16 are all through to the last 64, when was the last time this happened in a world ranking event, does anyone know I can't recall an event.

And one round later it's only 9 left. Which is not too far of from the usual number of top 16 seeds in round 3 at the UK Championship I would guess though.
I think it just felt like more upsets, because they all happened in the same round, so in shorter time.
This includes 4 of the world's top 10 that lost. And when I look at the names, I'd say those 10 also were the most likely in contention for the title. So 6 of the favourites left in the tournament.

I guess the one or other top 10 player could go home in round 3 as well. Some promising matches there:

Hopefully Liang Wenbo can challenge Judd Trump today.
Kurt Maflin, who played very well against Jamie Clarke, will give Kyren Wilson a hard match as well.
Mark Selby has a dangerous opponent in Hassan Vafaei.
Two former world champions play each other: Stuart Bingham - Graeme Dott.
Pang Junxu, who has two good wins so far, will try to get an even more prominent victim in Stephen Maguire.
Robert Milkins - Barry Hawkins
Mark Williams - Ricky Walden

[Billy]

Oh, this is good. The BBC are showing the Higgins Vs Jones match on the RB channel, and we're listening to DT commentate on the Wengbo match

[Zelig]

Well, you missed the first two shots of Trump - Wengbo then. Marvelous stuff (looked like me and my practice mate first match after lockdown

[Neil Taperell]

Never mind the woman anchor , who quite clearly has been thrown in at the deep end and or/hasn't done her homework to understand the difference between a century & a maximum . You have to blame the producers or whoever employed her . They should have explained everything to her .

I think that the other guy is shocking, i can't for some reason warm to him ......i doubt he has even picked up a cue .

For me its like going into a bookmakers and having a bet . The people behind the counter may as well work in Tesco , as they have no knowledge of the betting industry . They are just there to take the money , if you have an issue they simply don't know the answer [ This isn't all of them , there are still a few proper ones ]

[Billy]

I think that the other guy is shocking, i can't for some reason warm to him ......i doubt he has even picked up a cue .

Agree whole heartedly. I'd bet both my testicles he has about as much interest in (or knowledge of) snooker, as I do modern music. He looks like another Blue Peter reject.

[Billy]

They've finally sorted out the sound of the canned applause. Now sounds like it's coming from a live crowd rather than from a ?2.99 Bluetooth speaker.

Why are pound symbols showing as a question mark? This forum is wrecked!!

[PatBlock]

Why are pound symbols showing as a question mark?

Brexit.

Mind if I ask whether you edited your post Bill? Because when I tried to quote you only the top half of your message showed, I had to insert the last line manually. Just wondering if the system is not picking up edits when inserting quotes.

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[PatBlock]

4 in a row including a 139 and 98 to overturn a shaky start and go 4 - 3 up for Chang. Good match this.

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[PatBlock]

And now another 98 takes him to 5 - 3

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[balkend]

Yeah, Shaun didn't look right from the start, not to take anything away from Elliot though he was right on it.

Round 3 then, just 4 tables to juggle now. Looking forward to seeing how 'Bang Bang Chang' gets on today against Zhau.

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Zhou looks like making it back to 4 V 5 . Will be interesting to see if Bang Bang holds his nerve now and takes him out 6 4 . Hope hes the real deal and not another flash in the pan

[Billy]

Brexit.

Mind if I ask whether you edited your post Bill? Because when I tried to quote you only the top half of your message showed, I had to insert the last line manually. Just wondering if the system is not picking up edits when inserting quotes.

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Yes, I did edit, but there's a whole array of strange goings on with this forum right now. You may have noticed.

[Mark187187]

Agree whole heartedly. I'd bet both my testicles he has about as much interest in (or knowledge of) snooker, as I do modern music.

Didn't watch BBC today, but if it's the guy 'Radzi' who did the world championship, he did indeed used to be a Blue Peter presenter. So far though, from what I've seen, no Dave Farrar in the commentary box, so some slight improvement

[Billy]

Didn't watch BBC today, but if it's the guy 'Radzi' who did the world championship, he did indeed used to be a Blue Peter presenter. So far though, from what I've seen, no Dave Farrar in the commentary box, so some slight improvement

Or John Virgo, unfortunately. Is he still stranded in Spain?

[PatBlock]

Zhou looks like making it back to 4 V 5 . Will be interesting to see if Bang Bang holds his nerve now and takes him out 6 4 . Hope hes the real deal and not another flash in the pan

Didn't quite make it, solid 72 from Zhou to clinch it. Good match, really enjoyed it. As you say, lets hope we see more of them in the future, pretty good match for an 18 and 22 year old.

Yes, I did edit, but there's a whole array of strange goings on with this forum right now. You may have noticed.

Thanks. Yes it does seem to be missing out edits when quoting. And yes, vbullitin is crap. Hay-ho, it's what we've got so we'll just have to muddle along until the powers that be get things sorted, hopefully it won't be too long.

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[trains]

Didn't quite make it, solid 72 from Zhou to clinch it. Good match, really enjoyed it. As you say, lets hope we see more of them in the future, pretty good match for an 18 and 22 year old.
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yes not easy to swallow i suppose not scoring in the last three frames but he wouldn't have done his one year ranking list ( something your mate dom dale never heard of ) any harm from this tournament , yuelong is quality though it has to be said , not easy to envisage bingyu getting relegated at the end of the season but we'll see .