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  • Why not have the day after the semis devoted to a 3rd place final ? i.e. have the two semi final losers play a best of 13 for 3rd place and give the winner a 25000 bonus. It would give the 2 finalists a day to recover. I am pretty sure if Williams had a day off he would not have collapsed against Trump like he did today. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST GUYS !!!

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    • Heard it before actually, and I think there even was a 3rd place game in the past, but it wasn't very popular, so the idea was abandoned. World championships in other sports do award a bronze medal as a rule, even sports that have the same type of knockout format. The World Championship in snooker isn't a real world championship though. Not as that term is understood in the world of sport anyway. It's just a tournament like any other, with longer matches and bigger prize money.

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      • Originally Posted by Delphi View Post
        Yeah Rasson is great, our club has installed 10 brand new Rasson II tables this year

        Less forgiving then our previous tables though.
        wow that looks and sounds awesome , you'll be surprised how viable that sounds to me in London to visit often , does Matt Glasby coach there ? he used to work in a club in Southend Essex but i guess he's moved to Belgium now ?

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        • Originally Posted by trains View Post

          wow that looks and sounds awesome , you'll be surprised how viable that sounds to me in London to visit often , does Matt Glasby coach there ? he used to work in a club in Southend Essex but i guess he's moved to Belgium now ?
          Never heard of Matt Glasby really, speaking of London i was in The Hurricane , St Pancras area last February, and in Masters club in Walsall.

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          • Originally Posted by Delphi View Post

            Never heard of Matt Glasby really, speaking of London i was in The Hurricane , St Pancras area last February, and in Masters club in Walsall.
            sorry i meant to ask , is that The Trickshot in Bruges ?

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            • No, Trickshot is run by a family member of me though, and another club in Bruges 'Snookerpalace' is where Chris henry often is at, but this club is mambo in Kortrijk.

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              • ok thanks.

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                • Ronnie looks resigned
                  It's hard to pot balls with a Chimpanzee tea party going on in your head

                  Wibble

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                  • The tension so far is borderline awkward!
                    "Kryten, isn't it round about this time of year that your head goes back to the lab for retuning?"

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                    • Originally Posted by Odrl View Post
                      Heard it before actually, and I think there even was a 3rd place game in the past, but it wasn't very popular, so the idea was abandoned. World championships in other sports do award a bronze medal as a rule, even sports that have the same type of knockout format. The World Championship in snooker isn't a real world championship though. Not as that term is understood in the world of sport anyway. It's just a tournament like any other, with longer matches and bigger prize money.
                      I agree about 3rd place was never much interest in the past and was stopped many years ago

                      Can I ask why do you say this world championship is not a real world championship?
                      I dont know exactly to my fingers just now but IIRC this world champs had more players from more countries than ever before.
                      Wiki I think has the figures
                      Up the TSF! :snooker:

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                      • Originally Posted by DeanH View Post

                        I agree about 3rd place was never much interest in the past and was stopped many years ago

                        Can I ask why do you say this world championship is not a real world championship?
                        I dont know exactly to my fingers just now but IIRC this world champs had more players from more countries than ever before.
                        Wiki I think has the figures
                        I simply meant that it doesn't follow the pattern for the World Championship in other sports. For instance, no medals awarded, not organised by a governing body where all the national organisations are represented, no limit for the number of players per country, no rotation of venues, and stuff like that.

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                        • Originally Posted by Odrl View Post

                          I simply meant that it doesn't follow the pattern for the World Championship in other sports. For instance, no medals awarded, not organised by a governing body where all the national organisations are represented, no limit for the number of players per country, no rotation of venues, and stuff like that.
                          Ah ha gotcha....
                          well it is organised by WPBSA which (I believe) has as members the national associations so I assume they run it by the auspices.
                          there is no limit to numbers per country, you pay your entry to the event and you can try through the qualifiers
                          This year there was 5 rounds of qualifying IIRC.

                          No rotation of venue.... hm "can" and "worms" come to mind

                          At least it's better than the challenge days when Joe Davis wouldn't play you unless he thought he would beat you
                          Last edited by DeanH; 28 April 2022, 08:26 PM.
                          Up the TSF! :snooker:

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                          • This is the World Championship semi final. Why is the table running so slow this evening?

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                            • Originally Posted by ken147 View Post
                              This is the World Championship semi final. Why is the table running so slow this evening?
                              New cloth and rails, so maybe not worn in yet lol
                              Up the TSF! :snooker:

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                              • Higgins is useless. Should be 6-0 down. Hopefully at least O'Sullivan starts to play a little bit now.

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