Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Alex0paul]

397????????

[Lindea]

Even if 396 is the right answer you won't get the point Paul.

Chasmmi already guessed on 396.

[PaulTheSoave]

If its 396 he will say, its wrong, cause he knows I wont do a recount!

Actually, he is too honest to misbehave like that!

[Obligation]

lol PTS, I'll guess 400

[PaulTheSoave]

Its all on here, on the forum, on Statmans' Stat section. Its a coniving way of his Lordship to force us to read all the qualifiers!

I will, but not now. Something for long winter evenings. Therefore I guess 396!

[Obligation]

362?


(I'm just guessing)

[Alex0paul]

403????????????

[Lindea]

I'll guess 375.

[Obligation]

I'll guess 345

[chasmmi]

396 as a guess at the total.

Now I need to go to bed it is far too late.

[The Statman]

The question is, the total for EACH year.

So add up the figures for EACH year, basically it is, how many rounds have there been in all 30 years combined? [the greatest number of matches a player could have needed to win the title, each year.]

[chasmmi]

no idea and this will take too long to research but i would guess at its peak in the late 90's it got as high as 20

5 prelims
10 quals
5 tv

probably way off though

[The Statman]

ROUND SIXTY-THREE

(I'm not sure that's the right figure, but it is according to the scoreboard!)

Assuming that, in every Crucible year, the champion had played in the very earliest possible qualifying round and made his way through the whole drawsheet to win the title, what is the total number of matches that would have been played by the Crucible champions in the year they won?

[Obligation]

Very, very good Statman.

Well done!

Caught you all out for a while didn't it!

So here is the scoreboard after round 62:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
10 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
13 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . berolina
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

[The Statman]

Found it!

The 1974 Pot Black final, which was played over two frames' aggregate score, was won by Graham Miles by the score of 147-86 (against John Spencer).

This was the only Pot Black to be two frames' aggregate, the others between 1969 and 1977 being one frame, after which it was simple best-of-three.