2018 World Championship

[Stony152]

Record of the higher ranked player in QR2 under the new format. Quite a large variance from year to year. The higher ranked player has won about 85% of QR1 matches and 70% of QR2 matches. So far this year it's 6-2 for the higher ranked player, but Yan, Walden, and Gilbert are in tight matches going down to the wire.

2017 - 23-9
2016 - 25-7
2015 - 18-14

[sealer]

Gilbert and Walden fighting back. Yan now in a battle.

Yan under pressure. Missing all sorts of balls:-)

[CueAntW147]

Young Chris Wakelin through 10 - 4

[Stony152]

Gilbert and Walden fighting back. Yan now in a battle.

[CueAntW147]

ken safely through 10 - 4

[narl]

And that's him out, even his rest play was letting him down. =/

[CueAntW147]

I am afraid he is done. Standard is just to high these days.

he must have heard you - fighting back at 9 - 5 ;-)

[CueAntW147]

Crafty Ken going well 8 - 4 up

[sealer]

White cant afford to miss now, 9-4 down.

I am afraid he is done. Standard is just to high these days.

[narl]

And the tournament...if i remember right.

eh?

[attilahun]

Yep, Taom that claims to eliminate miscues lol, in reality it's increased them.

And the tournament...if i remember right.

[narl]

White cant afford to miss now, 9-4 down.

[richiet]

He was definitely stalling and trying to aggravate Jimmy as much as possible.

Didn't work though. Jimmy won the next two frames (and the match) quite easily 5-3.

[Cue crafty]

We're not talking about taking an extra few seconds to compose yourself on a big shot or extra thought for a difficult snooker escape for example, it's even worse in darts with players throwing slow to put quicker players off their rythym and it's well documented. It's the same as Selby when behind will come back to the table needing 4-5 snookers not because he thinks there's a reasonable chance of winning the frame but to draw you into a safety exchange and try and break up your rythym and annoy you. It's a tactic that's been used for years and been commented on by commentators down ghe years many times, there was a frame reshown recently between
Jimmy White and John Spencer where Spencer at one point needed 6 snookers but carried on and Ted Lowe commented that it was purely gamesmanship to frustrate Jimmy to drag it on and stop him getting on with the next frame, typically Spencer won the frame but as I said the actual intention was to frustrate and put Jimmy off for the next frame.

That kind of stuff really sucks, I hate gamesmanship. Sportsmanship is far more commendable, people like Jimmy who always call fouls on themselves when the ref misses it are better people than idiots who just want to win at any cost. Being very competitive is fine but looking to gain an edge from unsporting antics is a bit pathetic in my mind. All it really means is you're not good enough to win on the merit of your playing performance.

[CueAntW147]

White now 7-4 down, looking like the 12th year in a row he's failed to qualify =/

it was always going to be a big ask, Joe's a very good player on his day, might be left to crafty Ken for the old guard.