Ronnie O'Sullivan 1K Centuries - Contest!!!

Bob Jewett said:
Here is a YouTube video of "5 centuries in one match" for Ronnie but his opponent, Ali Carter, wins the third frame of the match (not shown in the video). It is five consecutive centuries in frames that he won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiXIxSPvPQ

And, if you want to be strict, he scored points in minor breaks in at least one of those frames.
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Have you played a few frames of snuuuuuker while over there this week??
 
Ronnie adds on another century with a 6-1 win in the Semi's.

He'll face the winner of Stuart Bingham vs Mark Allen in the finals tomorrow.

Ronnie is 14-3 vs Bingham and 4-3 vs Allen.
 
Mark steals the first frame, and Ronnie answers with a 101. The commentators said it was his 986th century.
 
7-4 Ronnie with 2 centuries so far.

Edit -- no, just one century.
 
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Now 9-4.

[And the Dolphins just beat the Patriots with an amazing last play of the game.]
 
Bob Jewett said:
The equivalence that is often stated is 100 at 14.1 and snooker together with 10 at carom. I think these days there are a lot more centuries at snooker than there used to be due to the better break-building techniques and more aggressive play. On the pool side it depends a lot on the equipment for tournaments. Statistics are a little hard to do because at snooker you have a chance to get multiple centuries in a single match while at pool it is harder to get multiple 100s. There are a lot more 10+ runs at 3-cushion than there used to be as well.
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I’ve felt for years that your at 100-straightpool...10 at 3-cushion and 100 at snooker were
roughly equal.....but now that snooker is played on faster cloth and heated slate....
...and the level of expertise rising...all bets are off for the snooker centuries...
...the 3-c and 14.1 runs might be more equivalent to a 130 run at snooker.
 
RO with the win 10-6. Looks like he had only the one century in the Finals (I previously thought he had a second.)

1st prize £170,000.
 
Anyone that isn't watching the Ronnie O Sullivan race to 1000 centuries is really cheating themselves of a real pool education.
I wish I knew what had changed his attitude because whatever it was , the transformation is amazing. He really seems to be enjoying himself and enjoying the fans, he doesn't let anything bother him enough to slow him down and he seems to be playing the best snooker I think a person is capable of.
As far as the equipment being easier , I don't see the other players doing what he is doing ,so I don't think it is that big of a factor.
When I watch him make these 100 breaks and make it look so effortless, it is awe inspiring .
 
book collector said:
Anyone that isn't watching the Ronnie O Sullivan race to 1000 centuries is really cheating themselves of a real pool education.
I wish I knew what had changed his attitude because whatever it was , the transformation is amazing. He really seems to be enjoying himself and enjoying the fans, he doesn't let anything bother him enough to slow him down and he seems to be playing the best snooker I think a person is capable of.
As far as the equipment being easier , I don't see the other players doing what he is doing ,so I don't think it is that big of a factor.
When I watch him make these 100 breaks and make it look so effortless, it is awe inspiring .
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His post match interview was great.


https://youtu.be/L-3iLcIOebE?t=604


He immediately starts off by saying how well Mark Allen played and that he'd be surprised if Mark never wins the world championship. Class act.
 
book collector said:
... he doesn't let anything bother him enough to slow him down ...
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He shrugs off skids (kicks) and sometimes doesn't even ask to have the ball cleaned, but he does stop fairly often for idiot camerapeople moving directly along his line of aim when he is down on the shot. That's not the TV cameras, it's the photographers.
 
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pt109 said:
I’ve felt for years that your at 100-straightpool...10 at 3-cushion and 100 at snooker were
roughly equal.....but now that snooker is played on faster cloth and heated slate....
...and the level of expertise rising...all bets are off for the snooker centuries...
...the 3-c and 14.1 runs might be more equivalent to a 130 run at snooker.
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Surely the equipment is getting better for all games?

Also above 100(ish) in snooker it gets much harder as you have fewer balls, so 120+ is really difficult, whereas in 14.1 it’s no harder to get 115, than 100 and so on (other than mental strength of course).
 
vjmehra said:
Surely the equipment is getting better for all games?

Also above 100(ish) in snooker it gets much harder as you have fewer balls, so 120+ is really difficult, whereas in 14.1 it’s no harder to get 115, than 100 and so on (other than mental strength of course).
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On the other hand, at snooker once you have passed 80 or so there is no penalty for missing other than the missed century. You are sure of winning the frame at that point.
 
vjmehra said:
Surely the equipment is getting better for all games?

Also above 100(ish) in snooker it gets much harder as you have fewer balls, so 120+ is really difficult, whereas in 14.1 it’s no harder to get 115, than 100 and so on (other than mental strength of course).
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You’d really have to play on a 40 ounce cloth in a British club (unheated table) to appreciate
how difficult snooker was under those conditions.
There were many things you just couldn’t do on heavy cloth......
...the fastest cloth I played on was 35 ounce....only in a tournament.

The game in professional play with shaved cloth and heated slate is NOT easier.....
...but under these conditions, more things are POSSIBLE....and players have naturally
gotten better....snooker knowledge has accumulated.

A ball will spin significantly longer on warm, dry cloth...and these genius players will use
that to produce miracles.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The equivalence that is often stated is 100 at 14.1 and snooker together with 10 at carom. I think these days there are a lot more centuries at snooker than there used to be due to the better break-building techniques and more aggressive play. On the pool side it depends a lot on the equipment for tournaments. Statistics are a little hard to do because at snooker you have a chance to get multiple centuries in a single match while at pool it is harder to get multiple 100s. There are a lot more 10+ runs at 3-cushion than there used to be as well.
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Cuetracker.net does a nice job of keeping snooker stats. In particular, they also keep stats on rates of 50+ breaks. I've included below Mark Williams stats and he is making a century every 18.31 frames. Ronnie is off the charts at one every 6.39 frames. Most players sit around 14-18 frame mark. But this would suggest that centuries are not as common per player as it would seem. Instead, there are just more players capable of a century break at any time.

Ultimately, I think it's tough to compare the difficulty of a century vs anything else. No all breaks in snooker are created equal, some are way more difficult than others depending on the layout. Whereas a straight pool runs are pretty consistently difficult and mostly impacted by the difficulty of the table.

https://cuetracker.net/players/mark-williams
 
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