Cazoo World Championship 2024

[vmax]

Wouldn't you think in this day and age that there would be some way of projecting the screenshot onto the table from above?

There is a large tv screen in the arena for the audience to look at, why isn't the referee able to look at the BBC superimposed table as it was and as it is that we can see at home rather than rely on directions from a third party.
Luckily Jak hit the reds next time otherwise it could have happened three or four times.
Stuarts failure to take on that green and completely fluff the dolly snooker attempt sealed his fate, deserved it for copping out on the correct shot just because he would have left a longer brown. 💀

On a technical point both losing semi finalists are serial upper arm droppers, especially on important balls, playing from the shoulder instead of the elbow. This is down to coaching IMO, the need to 'follow through' and get through the ball instilled into them comes to their conscious mind on important balls and the then consciously lengthened follow through is initiated from the shoulder rather than rely on the inertia of the strength of the shot being played from the elbow to allow the cue to follow through naturally and the upper arm can then drop after the strike rather than before the strike. A very fine line in some players like Ryan Day
Watch again Gilberts last red miss in the final frame of his match (also overstretching) and Bingham lashing at many balls during the match trying for more power than he naturally has, upper arm drops that lead to missing thin.
Both Wilson and Jones however don't drop the upper arm from the shoulder as often, Wilson because he has shortened his bridge to ball thus putiing his cue arm beyond 90 degrees to the floor at address and Jones because he's short and naturally plays that way as the standard cue fits his height. However they are not immune to this on important balls, something to look out for in the final when a ball is missed thin other than deceleration which also causes this.

[PatBlock]

I'm hoping for two good sessions, I think there will be a flat one and a twitchy one near the end.

And a nervy one at the beginning.

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[JimMalone]

Over the last few years I was in the camp of those thinking Wilson will get his World Title eventually and he really can't hope for a better chance than in this final. He should held himself much better in the safety battles than Bingham did. Jones has been playing rock solid during this fortnight, but he now has an opponent for the first time in this tournament, who should be able to hang with him in the safety department, but will probably score heavier. What Wilson will need most is patience.
It should foremost also be a battle of nerves. Wilson will have more pressure and he tends to crack under it sometimes a bit so it will be interesting to see how he handles it, if things don't go his way. Jones so far has also mentally been pretty solid and I'm curious if he will also stay as cool in the final, especially in the latter stages if it's a close contest. Jak might even have an edge in this important department.

I'd still pick Wilson to win it. But I have been wrong with the two last finals (and Selby against Brecel was even clearly more of a favorite to me than Wilson is against Jones).

[cueman]

New cloth on for the final, that doesn't usually happen. Perhaps the sponsors or those making decisions decided they needed a more open final and enhanced the scoring chances and decided late that they didn't want a final with long bouts of safety and table playing tough after 3 days of play. Strange how they were happy to allow tough conditions on the half of the draw with Trump, Ronnie but now they are out they've done everything to try and help the players score. I'm convinced if Trump had played with the other table, he'd have won this event, making conditions tough affects his timing more than most, bad form from WST.

[DeanH]

as per a vote on twitter yesterday I picked:
"Want Jak, think Kyren"
Jak because what a story it would be
Kyren because of his career performances and current form take the edge.

But hey, I am nearly always wrong, hence I don't bet

[itsnoteasy]

Kyren Wilson has the nicest shaft on his cue.

[cueman]

Ever seen a whitewash in a world final! I wouldn't bet against it.

[Cue crafty]

I think in the movies they say something like Sh1t just got real. jaks woken up....i

[PatBlock]

Ever seen a whitewash in a world final! I wouldn't bet against it.

I would, now that it's 7 - 1 He could still come back from this, long match, you never know, 🤞 but it looks unlikely.

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[Cue crafty]

I would, now that it's 7 - 1 He could still come back from this, long match, you never know, 🤞 but it looks unlikely.

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can he do a Dennis Taylor!?! Don’t think it’s gonna get the same amount of millions watching even if he does.

[daffie]

What a horrorshow for Jak. What will tonight bring?

[cueman]

Match is done, all Wilson needs to do is not get ahead of himself. Jones isn't an inspirational player, his game is all about counter clearances and getting frames to be scrappy and controlling the pace. It takes an inspirational type player to get back into a match like this to apply pressure on Wilson. That's not going to happen, it could still end up as one of the heaviest defeats in crucible history.

[vmax]

New cloth on for the final, that doesn't usually happen. Perhaps the sponsors or those making decisions decided they needed a more open final and enhanced the scoring chances and decided late that they didn't want a final with long bouts of safety and table playing tough after 3 days of play. Strange how they were happy to allow tough conditions on the half of the draw with Trump, Ronnie but now they are out they've done everything to try and help the players score. I'm convinced if Trump had played with the other table, he'd have won this event, making conditions tough affects his timing more than most, bad form from WST.

I think there's usually a new cloth for the final as they're changed every three days, but as you say there was a distinct difference between table one and table two and they went for table one for the final. Pockets were tighter on two, cloths may have been a little heavier, might have adjusted the heaters, maybe an experiment for the future, maybe an excuse to leave the Crucible maybe just bad workmanship or material, who knows, but those who played on table two definately drew the short straw.
I quite like the fact that balls didn't go in off the jaws and even the cushion before the jaws like they have been doing in recent years but tighter pockets don't ally with aramith balls and their inconsistant contacts, an awful lot of easy blacks missed thick off the spot tells it's own tale imo.

Of course Kyren has been playing on table one the whole tournament while Jak has had to adjust and his defensive game isn't working as well. In the past they made one table out of the best components of the two to prevent this but if the Star tables aren't of the quality to do this then maybe a brand new table for the final should be the way forward but then again there hasn't been such a stark difference between the two tables before.

[vmax]

Kyren Wilson has the nicest shaft on his cue.

Either it's a new one or he's had it cleaned and refurbished, used to be much darker.

[itsnoteasy]

I think there's usually a new cloth for the final as they're changed every three days, but as you say there was a distinct difference between table one and table two and they went for table one for the final. Pockets were tighter on two, cloths may have been a little heavier, might have adjusted the heaters, maybe an experiment for the future, maybe an excuse to leave the Crucible maybe just bad workmanship or material, who knows, but those who played on table two definately drew the short straw.
I quite like the fact that balls didn't go in off the jaws and even the cushion before the jaws like they have been doing in recent years but tighter pockets don't ally with aramith balls and their inconsistant contacts, an awful lot of easy blacks missed thick off the spot tells it's own tale imo.

Of course Kyren has been playing on table one the whole tournament while Jak has had to adjust and his defensive game isn't working as well. In the past they made one table out of the best components of the two to prevent this but if the Star tables aren't of the quality to do this then maybe a brand new table for the final should be the way forward but then again there hasn't been such a stark difference between the two tables before.

I didn't know they used the best bits of both tables to make up the final table, what an interting fact that is.Nice one.