A simple question, aren't these huge mega races getting a little boring or is it just me? I mean the first one back in the day when Earl and Efren went at it in that race to 120 in Hong Kong in which Efren pulled out a win in the last day was interesting as a novelty but now? Or maybe it's just that these players having nothing better to do with their time between tournaments, who knows I just find it's getting a bit old.
Not a fan of long one on one races to xxxx even though I post about them
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They are just gimmicky, overdue novelty like circus act. The race length is subjective (can be 50, 75, 90,100, 120 etc. and you can have different winner depending on race length. As Orson Welles used to say "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story"
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Players play long hours sometimes late into next morning so doesn't extract best performances from players
There is less pressure to deliver best shots compared to tournament matches
Tournaments are tougher tests cos they test how you fare against the field instead of just 1 player. How you handle players with different skill sets, different conditions
That is why tournaments (in particular majors with strong fields of 800+ players) are better test of ability/skill.
Good thing about the World Tours of Matchroom, Predator/CSI in recent years is that they wean players away from these long races to xxxx and get them to focus on playing on the World tours. Even though players like Gorst, FSR do take these Shark long races as training preparation for upcoming majors on the tour.
There is reason why players are voted as player of year based on performance in tournaments (in particular majors), not long races.
