World Championship Snooker

[Bada-Bing!]

I've fallen out of love with snooker during the Hearn era, so haven't watched much of the tournament, but have caught quite a lot of the final. It's been a very enjoyable match IMO, with Selby deserving the (inevitable now) win.

Yeh can't say I have watched much of the tournament. At least this final has been fairly competitive. Murphy being a former champion. Slow torture for him sitting there watching Selby strangle the life out of this final as is his MO.

Murphy will need to play flawless for any chance now.

Selby a worthy winner.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Liang and Li handed lifetime bans for match-fixing

Chinese players Liang Wenbo and Li Hang receive lifetime bans for match-fixing in snooker's biggest corruption scandal.

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[Bada-Bing!]

Saudi event to feature 20-point golden ball with 167 break possible

The World Snooker Tour announces its first TV event in Saudi Arabia, where there will be an extra 20-point ball for players who complete a 147.

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167? Thankfully not at the World championships.

 

[BrokenWing]

Why? 147 is a pretty unassailable lead requiring quite a few snookers to get back into the game.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

World Snooker Championship 2024: Neil Robertson loses to Jamie Jones; Jackson Page and Ryan Day advance

Former world champion Neil Robertson loses in the final qualifying round for the 2024 event as Wales' Jamie Jones books his Crucible spot.

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[Bada-Bing!]

World Snooker Championship could leave Crucible, warns Hearn

Former World Snooker Tour chairman Barry Hearn says the world championship could stay in Sheffield - but only if the Crucible was redeveloped or a new arena built.

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[Saintjay]

World Snooker Championship could leave Crucible, warns Hearn

Former World Snooker Tour chairman Barry Hearn says the world championship could stay in Sheffield - but only if the Crucible was redeveloped or a new arena built.

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Saudi and China as possible new locations. Shocked and surprised not in the slightest.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Incredible that it has lasted this long at the Crucible, especially if it wants to grow. Never been although always watched it on the tv.

 

[RedruthRFC]

Initially, I thought that the impact of 2,000 extra seats is small beer in the grand scheme of things, but a bit of fag packet maths suggests that the extra revenue it would generate is not insignificant.

TBH it all strikes me as posturing to make excuses to make whatever changes generate the most revenue. It's hard to see that an extra couple of thousand people in Sheffield is going to compete with either an oil baron paying to have it as his plaything or with the extra revenue generated by moving to a timezone that suits Chinese TV audiences better.