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Well, in my opinion, that was one of the best tournaments I've seen on the telly in a long while. I predicted all along that the cream would come to the top and there wouldn't be that many shocks. I have no idea why the Beeb would want to get rid of this tournament at the end of the season!
To the people who don't want to see another tournament like this one: GET WITH THE TIMES! Unfortunately, its what Joe Public wants. The past few years we've seen an influx of shorter events in many sports in order to maintain and regain public interest. T20 cricket for example has been extremely popular worldwide. It's not really my cup of tea, but I still enjoy it. It has made people realise and appreciate test cricket more. I believe that it will have the same impact as long and short matchplay snooker.
Having said that, we must realise that too much of the same thing is damaging also. That's why its key we get VARIETY in the types and formats of event. I think the Masters format is perfect - the Top 16 players in the World playing off on one table across a week at Wembley!
There have been many suggestions about shortening the World Championship (no I'm not just trying to get Ronnie interested again!), but players are absolutely knackered! Win your quarter final, you still have to win more than double to win the Championship! So what's the answer? In my opinion, a match shouldn't last more than one day. I think the final should be best-of-25 played with 12 frames in the 1st session with two intervals and then 13 frames in the next with two intervals. I think first-to-13 is more than adequate to decide the Champion of the World. The rounds should go 11-11-15-21-25. The tournament could be other within 9 days running Saturday-Sunday.
The UK Championship also needs to be shortened slightly, with best-of-11s until the quarters and then best-of-15 in the Semis and best-of-19 in the final. This would then run the same length of time as the World Championship.
As for other tournaments, I would maybe have a tournament format similar to the World 9-ball Championship. Basically, 64 players split into 8 groups of 8. You must win two matches in order to advance (best-of-7). This also acts as seeding for the Last 32. I think we need to have more than just the bog standard best-of-9 matchplay format.
A tournament with a group stage format could work. Same format as the FIFA World Cup.
Interested to see what other people's views are of this.
To the people who don't want to see another tournament like this one: GET WITH THE TIMES! Unfortunately, its what Joe Public wants. The past few years we've seen an influx of shorter events in many sports in order to maintain and regain public interest. T20 cricket for example has been extremely popular worldwide. It's not really my cup of tea, but I still enjoy it. It has made people realise and appreciate test cricket more. I believe that it will have the same impact as long and short matchplay snooker.
Having said that, we must realise that too much of the same thing is damaging also. That's why its key we get VARIETY in the types and formats of event. I think the Masters format is perfect - the Top 16 players in the World playing off on one table across a week at Wembley!
There have been many suggestions about shortening the World Championship (no I'm not just trying to get Ronnie interested again!), but players are absolutely knackered! Win your quarter final, you still have to win more than double to win the Championship! So what's the answer? In my opinion, a match shouldn't last more than one day. I think the final should be best-of-25 played with 12 frames in the 1st session with two intervals and then 13 frames in the next with two intervals. I think first-to-13 is more than adequate to decide the Champion of the World. The rounds should go 11-11-15-21-25. The tournament could be other within 9 days running Saturday-Sunday.
The UK Championship also needs to be shortened slightly, with best-of-11s until the quarters and then best-of-15 in the Semis and best-of-19 in the final. This would then run the same length of time as the World Championship.
As for other tournaments, I would maybe have a tournament format similar to the World 9-ball Championship. Basically, 64 players split into 8 groups of 8. You must win two matches in order to advance (best-of-7). This also acts as seeding for the Last 32. I think we need to have more than just the bog standard best-of-9 matchplay format.
A tournament with a group stage format could work. Same format as the FIFA World Cup.
Interested to see what other people's views are of this.
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Its either one or the other?!
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