ScottW said:
Dang, those are some huge score boards.
What were they doing as far as the match race values (i.e. 8 and something else) - did they have a pile of peel-and-stick numbers? Obviously they weren't scribbling all of those (though the numbers at the right of each board were hand-written).
The scores were peel and stick numbers. The stats were handwritten. All the display boards shown were printed/silk-screened beforehand...very professionally done and look just like the online score cards.
Other printing that was done and looked marvelous - the programs showing all entrants (except for the last minute replacements), special posters showing all entrants, the enlarged photos of billiard legends arrayed around the room, and copies of old tournament posters on easels as you walked down the red carpet into the room.
There were also some light projections cast onto the walls and carpet, as well as a dizzying laser light show with customized logo and patterns thrown onto the TV tables at the start and in between matches.
All the players got player carry-all bags with our names embroidered on them, filled with DVD's, a mug, T-shirt, hat, special NAO pin, and a folder with schedules, rules, forms, etc.
KT's new book was on sale for $10, but then were given out free during the Finals (as well as his first book). I cadged a copy of each to give to my girlfriend that has breast ca that has metastasized to her bones.
