Ssb - oneforseven launched

[MySockPuppet]

The folks at global-snooker.com have trialled a new short form version of the game called ONEFORSEVEN.

It lasts 147 minutes and features players playing frames against one another within this time, with the overall winner the player who has scored the most points.

Unusually, the audience will be encouraged to make noise rather than sit in stony silence, as is traditional at all other events.

A tournament, worth £25,000, will be staged in Cardiff on December 21 and feature Ryan Day, Mark Williams, Matthew Stevens and Ricky Walden.

There will also be satellite events with the winners progressing to the final to take on the star names.

For more details, check the global snooker website here.

This is an attempt to find a snooker version of Twenty20, which has proved popular in cricket.

One of the biggest problems snooker has with the media is that it is impossible to know what time a match will finish, so broadcasters have problems with their schedules and newspaper editors with their deadlines.

The shortest ever best of nine contest was 34 minutes duration while the longest lasted seven hours.

“Somewhere between the two” is a rather vague, if accurate, answer to the perennial question of how long a match will last.

I haven’t seen ONEFORSEVEN yet but I wish them all the best.

Anything a bit different that encourages interest in snooker should be welcomed.


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[wildJONESEYE]

Gimmicky Crap

No Time for it for Pro Players that going to play it i wouldnt lower myself to go and watch utter rubish.

[spike]

I agree with Wild. As much as i love Snooker i dont want to see it going down this road. It may end proving popular with some in time but i could never take something like 'ONEFOURSEVEN' seriously in a million years or watch it on tv even if you paid me..

[wildJONESEYE]

spike

what really really worries me and ive pointed it out on moniques thread...

if you had money would you want to put it in a sport that looks desperate ???

[Monique]

spike

what really really worries me and ive pointed it out on moniques thread...

if you had money would you want to put it in a sport that looks desperate ???

It looks desperate only in your own mind. For me if people like Neil Tomkins and Ken Doherty are looking for different options and try hard to attract new life in the sport it means the love is very much there (albeit not in the authorities who run the sport) and that's great. Why not try? What harm would it do to try? Certainly not worse than do nothing.
Table tennis has gone through some radical changes to make it more dynamic and create more drama in matches: shorter sets, more sets per match. It wasn't percieved as "desperate" and to my knowledge sponsoring and interest hasn't go down.

[In-off]

The first two posters are missing the point entirely.

This sort of thing isn't for diehard snooker fans. If anything it's aimed at people who don't like snooker at all.

20/20 has created new cricket fans who would not have been enticed by the Test format.

If this can do the same for snooker then it's all to the good.

But what a shame so many snooker fans have such closed minds.

[twentytwo]

I agree with In-Off, an open mind would be helpful and of course it isnt meant to be instead of the long format - so Wild, you still get your Crucible fix!

The World Championship takes a month in total so they are not going to have many more of them are they!?

[checkSide]

Table tennis has gone through some radical changes to make it more dynamic and create more drama in matches: shorter sets, more sets per match. It wasn't percieved as "desperate" and to my knowledge sponsoring and interest hasn't go down.

I do like the idea that people are trying something new. However to compare snooker to table tennis just shows how bad things must be getting......

[wildJONESEYE]

monique

the only thing that will breath new life in to snooker is a governing body that gets payed for getting off theire fat bum and earn theire money....

they do nothing at all to atract sponsors absalutly nothing they cant even promote snooker in scotland which has the current World Champion.

people round about the kelvin hall was clueless what was happening there.

sorry but fact is you either love to see balls potted or you dont no format or gimmick will make that different.

[Templeton Peck]

The WSA was bringing in sponsors and the prize money was going up until this year when all the UK sponsors terminated their contracts. I wonder why. Firms aren't going to throw their spare cash at snooker and at the same time lay off workers - what planet are you on? Snooker's financial situation isn't going to change until the economic climate changes. At the moment it's just a case of riding out the storm.

[montoya10]

monique

the only thing that will breath new life in to snooker is a governing body that gets payed for getting off theire fat bum and earn theire money....

they do nothing at all to atract sponsors absalutly nothing they cant even promote snooker in scotland which has the current World Champion.

people round about the kelvin hall was clueless what was happening there.

sorry but fact is you either love to see balls potted or you dont no format or gimmick will make that different.

If you are so confident that it will draw little interest, why are you so angry with people who are just trying to set their own organization. You should be thinking that John Higgins' World Series is a rubbish, too..

[leeroygor]

Gimmicky Crap

No Time for it for Pro Players that going to play it i wouldnt lower myself to go and watch utter rubish.

what a ridiculous comment. you have to regret typing that......................

LOL

[wildJONESEYE]

The WSA was bringing in sponsors and the prize money was going up until this year when all the UK sponsors terminated their contracts. I wonder why. Firms aren't going to throw their spare cash at snooker and at the same time lay off workers - what planet are you on? Snooker's financial situation isn't going to change until the economic climate changes. At the moment it's just a case of riding out the storm.

that is a valid point however WSA Neglect goes back best part of 15 years through complacency of sticking with tabacco sponsership and also resting on theire laurells instead of moving forward.

[wildJONESEYE]

what a ridiculous comment. you have to regret typing that......................

LOL

no i stand by it 100%

[wildJONESEYE]

If you are so confident that it will draw little interest, why are you so angry with people who are just trying to set their own organization. You should be thinking that John Higgins' World Series is a rubbish, too..

ive told you why it cheapens snooker and makes it a bloody joke that no sponsor would want to touch the sport with a barge poll.