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I thought this was alright. At least it didn't have a ridiculous amount of rule changes.
IMO, it would be interesting to see matches that are best of 5 or 7. Maybe start with a group stage. At least if there are a few more frames, it eliminates the 'luck' a lot more. With it being one frame, you might not get a shot.
The one thing that does need addressing is the crowd. For starters, this is not darts. Snooker is it's own sport and that needs respecting. Personally, crowd interaction is alright but if you give some an inch, they take a mile and end up getting carried away.
I have a little rule query about an incident that happened last night between Steve Davis and Peter Ebdon. Towards the end of the frame Steve played a red sending it round the table, Peter rushed to the table and struck the cueball at the red before the red had stopped moving from Steves shot. Eirian Williams called foul, picked the white up and gave it to Steve, why??
I thought that would have been 'ball moved by other than striker' and the balls would have had to be re-placed where the ref thought they would have finished and Peter play again. How can it be a foul when the previous shot hadn't finished?
Playing a shot while balls are moving is a foul
In this tournament any foul means the other player puts the white where they want to
Basically it is only ever going to happen in this tournament
Problem is, decent snooker fans are not that much into this.
And even though audience set the tone high when shouting, it wasn't close to
match the reaction someone popular like Ronnie receives..
As I said yesterday, darts effect wasn't there. No interaction between players and the spectators, instead, just a few drunk people shouting was my first impression.
But I still don't want to call for the head of something taking baby steps, especially if players would like to get involved in an event with a similar format.
Crowd has been much better this afternoon, with the occasional bit of banter. I thin k real snooker fans are interested, just not ALL real snooker fans.
In this tournament any foul means the other player puts the white where they want to
Basically it is only ever going to happen in this tournament
As I understand the rule 'ball moved by other than striker', it would be a foul if the player that had played the original shot then played again before the balls came to rest, but not if his opponent played.
I understand it would probably only happen in this tournament, but the rule has to be applied correctly regardless of the competition.
No problem with the concept, new ideas need to be experimented with. But I don't think that was a good atmosphere - it was forced and false. You can't just create a great atmosphere, it must be genuine. I don't think that was.
SPOT ON.
Today was much better and the game created the right atmosphere.
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