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Don't get me wrong, I like playing on fast cloth too, but what I'm lamenting lately is the move toward cookie cutter accuracy mechanics (all the modern Europeans have the exact same, snooker oriented fundamentals). Players like Earl, Reyes, Busta, with their un-textbook, unique styles that they...

They really aren't, though. I'd still put the Filipinos and Taiwanese ahead (Ko is probably the most naturally gifted stroker since Earl). All they really have is Appleton. And snooker, they basically play against themselves. They ain't good at 3 cushion, like your Scandinavian brothers...

We've disagreed earlier in the thread, but you are 100% right here. Modern conditions and equipment don't require stroke + accuracy anymore. Just accuracy.

When was that? 4 years ago? He was a one hit wonder. Other than the Mosconi Cup, Chris doesn't scratch for decent money all the often. And he ain't never been runner up in Chinese 8. Darren Appleton doesn't turn his nose up at 14.1. He just wants to pile up titles. I thought Chris's motivation...

Ate himself into poverty, tbh.

Impossible to find. I don't get the point you were trying to make citing China's numbers anyhow? Is that supposed to prove snooker is a more global cue sport or something? Here's the official US figures...

I thought Melling's motivation wasn't money (though money is probably very important to him given how large his grocery bills must be), but to be the best all around? Also, it stands to reason, per your logic, that the super talented Melling would win every 14.1 and One Pocket tourney in sight...

Web search brings up zilch. I don't doubt it, though, with China's population numbers. Pool is also popular over there. You do realize their women pool players are stars, right? But I also don't doubt that at least 20 million play pool actively in the Philippines.

Because he'd get smoked and knows it. Melling has this idea of himself as the best all around cueist in the world, but avoids the hardest American pool disciplines like he does vegetables. He sticks to rotation game tournaments, with their high variance. And he isn't even particularly...

So are you with quoting that China has 30 million snooker players. Is there where you quote the TV ratings at me (I know where you got the data, so don't bother). Since when does watching (a national hero) translate to participation? 400 million Chinese used to watch Yao. Doesn't mean they...

Also worth mentioning is that the breaker is actually at a statistical disadvantage. A poster compiled the W/L ratio of breakers/non breakers, and the non-breaker won like half a percent more games. Someone tested the data by examining the Efren vs. Earl Color of Money match, and the stats were...

Link? The Philippines has a 100 million people. You don't think at least 40% play the country's second most popular sport on regular basis?

Their pretty bad at it, naturally. Rempe decimated their English 8 ball hero Joe Barbara for the World Title in the 80's, basically playing the game for a laugh. Without Rempe's influence, English 8 ball would still be stuck in the 1920s.

Oh, and the fact this behemoth can't outbreak Shane speaks volumes of his "talent." He's fat and probably quite strong, but has no accurate power stroke, like all English players.

Why hasn't Melling dominated the "most soulful pool game," the game pretty much synonymous with pool, 14.1? The fat ass has played pool for like 10-15 years now, vowing to himself to be the best all-around cueist in the world, and yet he has stayed away from those events like he does diets. He...

There's 40 million Filipino pool players and probably 80 million American pool players. And?

Safeties in snooker are about the cheapest thing around. Push down table and get a guaranteed safe. How imaginative. Rotation safes are demanding and require exacting precision to lock up, or a player like Reyes is going to murder you. Ban the break. That's like banning the drive in golf. It's...

There was like 3 channels then :lol Snooker ratings are down to about 3.5 million average viewership for the World Championship. Still larger than pool, of course, which isn't saying much. Nice excuse of, "I saw it on TV so I have no reason to watch it again!" Speak for yourself. I'm...

Zero evidence of that. No UK cueist can play 3 cushion (by far the hardest cue game on the planet that isn't a gimmick) to save their lives. Appleton is pretty much all you got in American pool. And for much of snooker's history, it was Brits beating Brits since no one else played it. And it's...

How about Earl vs. Hendry? Earl vs. Busta (1.4 million) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTGMZVben94 Hendry vs. White (777K) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTizFFIskEI Or Trump vs. Shane? Trump (463K): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxk8tBnuP0 Shane (430K)...