2014 World Championship - Discussion

[luke-h]

They certainly look 'forgiving'. I don't know how much a brand new cloth makes a difference. I played on the Star's at the SWSA for the Southwest Open and the cloths were very old (due to be replaced for a PTC the following week).

I have never played on anything tighter. Blacks off the spot catching where the near pocket started didn't drop. Not just my opinion but all 32 entrants. Michael Wasley was working the bar and he said the tables were playing very difficult.

I think new cloth helps but judging by some of the balls potted it's becoming quite irrefutable to argue that they are tight, the table i play on i wouldn't say it was overly tight it just under 3 and half inches and it wouldn't accept a ball hitting a cushion 6 inches from a pocket.

On another note anybody know why the black pocket leathers seem a shade different in colour? or is is simply because they are camera pockets?

[rightoncue89]

2014 World Championship - Discussion

i was talking about kicks to a guy at my club, because we hardly get any at all, even using tournament 1g balls which iv heard people blame the kicks on.

He was an older chap and told me that tv tables are too hot, he said years ago when he worked at a club down south somewhere that they were told the perfect temperature for a snooker room is 39 degrees and should be kept like that at all times.

So his view was that tv tables are too hot and this somehow makes kicks more likely, im guessing its due to oils in the cloth from manufacturing and from hands etc.

Sometimes its as simple as scuffs in the cloth though, this i know for sure, i had a horrendous kick in practice and after looking, the ball was resting in a scuff where somebody has played a swerve or screwed back and just taken the top of the nap away.
i replaced the ball on the mark a few times and every time i got a kick, not all as bad as the initial one but i guess it depends exactly where it is sitting and what sort of strike you get in the cue ball, power etc.

[Table_of_Reds]

I went for Malta, but the answers the 'experts' gave were good. Finland and New Zealand especially.

[stephenm2682]

On the actual game show, you get through to the final getting the lowest score possible, and in the final you have to find a pointless answer, eg a 0 score! Eg, name a former world champion that the 100 people didn't get

[statto]

I went for Malta, but the answers the 'experts' gave were good. Finland and New Zealand especially.

I went for South Africa, but I think both of those answers will score lower.

[stephenm2682]

Table of reds, that was my answer too! I think Finland would of been said cos of this yr robin hull

[daffie]

It's an interesting (double)take on a regular quiz setup...I quite like it

[stephenm2682]

Thailand, India,

[scottley]

Stef Mazrocis Latvia was a great shout by JV, surprised WT did'nt get that with him being based in Leicester for many years, i went for Perry Mans, South Africa.

[daffie]

Repeat of the ton of tons. Hmm...Neil's head just gotten (even) bigger!

[scottley]

Latvia D'oh.

[Table_of_Reds]

Iceland, would never have got that.

[scottley]

Not even close to flawless WT.

[Kevycanavan]

Who has made the most maximum?
WT not a plotless answer, but worth 100 points, because it's wrong

[luke-h]

As if itv have closed a 5 year deal for champion of champions and a new tournament more english snooker