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Only Two Seeds Progress on Day Three in Belfast

August 27, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

An astonishing day of snooker in Belfast yesterday saw only two seeded players (out of 8 ) progress into the last 16 of the Northern Ireland trophy.

The biggest upset was Stephen Lee’s 5-1 demolition job on Stephen Hendry, this victory wil inspire Lee to continue with his snooker as only last year after a string of appalling results he was considering quitting.

Three other former World Champions also fell with Graeme Dott, Shaun Murphy and Peter Ebdon falling foul of the class that is rising through the lower ranks of snooker.

Tuesdays Complete 2nd Round Results

Stephen Maguire (Sco) bt Michael Holt (Eng) 5-1
Dave Harold (Eng) bt Graeme Dott (Sco) 5-3
Ian McCulloch (Eng) bt Neil Robertson (Aus) 5-2
Mark Williams (Wal) bt Shaun Murphy (Eng) 5-2
Liang Wenbo (Chi) bt Peter Ebdon (Eng) 5-0
Alan McManus (Sco) bt Mark King (Eng) 5-3
Mark Allen (NIrl) bt Dominic Dale (Wal) 5-4
Stephen Lee (Eng) bt Stephen Hendry (Sco) 5-1

Another great victory for Dave Harold and Liang Wenbo (my one to watch this season!!!) both beating former world champions and Wenbo by a 5-0 scoreline.

Shaun Murphy, Stephen Maguire, Graeme Dott, Neil Robertson and Mark Williams will all be appearing in the Belgium Open in September, you can Watch the Belgium Open Snooker Live on CueSport TV for just £8.00

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Belgium Snooker Open 2008

August 26, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

It has now been made official that the Belgium Snooker Open will be broadcast LIVE on Cuesport TV in September.

The live broadcast will only be available on pay-per-view for the low price of £8.00 (Eur10.00, $15.00) for the complete three day tournament.

The Belgium Open features such players as John Parrott, Neil Roberston, Mark Selby, Graeme Dott, Ken Doherty, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, Stephen Maguire and many more main tour professional snooker players.

It takes place over the weekend of 19th-20th-21st September and the only place you will be able to watch the action is on www.CueSport.tv - tickets for the online broadcast will be available from 9am September 1st 2008 so be sure to sign-up way in advance!

The Belgium Open is brought to you by Belgian company Connect Management and comes to you from the Tennis centre in Duffel, Belgium.

For more information about this great Live Snooker Broadcast  contact enquiries@cuesport.tv

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Logo Ban Losing Snooker Stars £1000′s

August 20, 2008 / The_Teach / 2 comments

I have recently got into a blog written by Dave H (not sure what the H is for!!!), the deputy editor of Snooker Scene magazine.

The latest post is about the ever controversial Ronnie O’Sullivan commenting about the logo space on players waistcoats. According to World Snooker rules, during the World Championships players can only wear one logo in addition to the tournament logo. This rule according to an article in the Mirror Newspaper last April cost Neil Robertson an £80,000 deal with Burger King.

O’Sullivans point in the Snooker Scene blog was that players should concentrate on earnings on the table rather than what they are getting paid for wearing a certain logo.

Although the point is a valid one insomuch as Snooker is about competition it is difficult in this day and age for players outside of the elite to earn a decent living solely from prize money. Tournament prize funds have dwindled and so have the number of official ranking events, reducing potential earnings even further. 

Players in the top 16 are protected by seedings so are automatically in the money positions in every tournament and as a result of seedings are on TV and command massive logo deals and endorsements.

I do not think we should consider detracting from the snooker, the sport and competition is what it is about, and I also think that a limit to a number of logo’s should be in place so as not to create an advertising farce. What I disagree with though is the way in which professional players are forced into a corner over what they can and can’t earn. Careers, on-the-whole, are limited in snooker and it is about entertainment so why shouldn’t players be allowed to earn large sums for TV appearances and within reason maximise the revenue available through a number of logo positions. 

 

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Bahrain to Host New Snooker Ranking Event

August 19, 2008 / The_Teach / One comment

18th August 2008

The BBC break the news that Bahrain are to host a World Ranking event this November, a tournament that has been added to the calendar at the 11th hour. Story below:

Bahrain get World Snooker Ranking Event

The Bahrain Championship, held in the capital Manama will run from the 8th-15th November and will feature the top 16 plus 16 qualifiers and 6 local wildcards.

This comes off the back of the bad news from 2 weeks ago when both 888.com and Saga Insurance pulled out of major sponsorship deals. It can only be healthy for the sport to have another territory represented on the ‘World Ranking Tour’.

Snooker in the Middle East is growing in popularity and a bringing a ranking event to the region can only further develop the following that snooker has.

I have always been an advocate of making it a true world tour and the only way to do this was by bringing ranking events to the calendar from other regions and countries outside of the UK and Ireland.

Money is the Middle East is also not in short supply so sponsorship of the event will not be difficult to find and it is excellent that we now have 8 ranking tournaments for the 08/09 season (including the World Championships.)

What this does mean is that the players will once again be very busy this side of the season with 5 of the 8 ranking events happening before December, I am sure the players will be delighted however that another tournament has been found and there is more chance for ranking points and more chance to earn a decen living from the game.

In my opinion the best news since the China Open!

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