I should have worded that better, maybe different specifications instead of conditions. It would be comparable to football playoffs for one particular match that had a 200 yard field instead of 100 yard. Baseball with 5 bases instead of 4. Basketball with 15 foot hoops.
Hell no! Yes, I’d love 20 second time clocks on every table. But if that’s not possible, please don’t take it away from the TV table and make ALL the viewers suffer.
Baseball fields are different sizes.
You mean, the outfields are? Surely the distance between the plates, pitcher and home plate, etc.. are the same? But yeah, I see your point. Still more the exception than the rule.
Just don't pick slow ass players for streamed tables. They know who they are.
I sweat a lot when I play. I always seem to leave a little sweat on the rails, and sweat through my glove too. The worst part for me is that when I sweat through the glove, the part of the glove that touches the table can leave a black mark on the cloth. I sometimes change gloves if the match is going long.I very respectfully disagree.This is a medical condition, and antiperspirants won't work. I know a pro who has diabetes and has had to leave a match because he felt faint and had to either get orange juice or an injection. I know of another pro who has bipolar disorder, and he/she is unable to take medicine for it because it affects their caliber of play, but it results in unexpected emotional outbursts.
The point, I guess, is that this was not a shark move, which is what was insinuated by others. If a medical condition prevents a player from competing on a professional level adhering to the tournament rules, then it is what it is. But sometimes there is no remedy for a medical condition that will suffice enough to allow the player to not experience the symptoms when in combat.
Yes the outfields, and also the height of the fences. No two MLB parks are the same.
Outfield dimensions do vary but its not by much. Mound-to-home and base-to-base distance is set. 60ft6" from pitching rubber to home plate and 90ft from base-to base. Foul-pole distance is 325ft min. and center distance is 400ft min.
They might not vary "by much" (depends on what you feel about "much"), but they can make a huge difference. The astros for example, have a short left field porch. In the past they've actually traded for players at the deadline etc.. who have high percentages of flyouts to left field that would have been HRs at their park.
Soccer fields in Europe have to only fit into ranges of dimensions. There are smaller soccer field in major leagues than others
Why not select on merit and merit only? Picking someone because they are capable and give someone else a chance?
Maybe, if you are not in the US. But who the heck knows, it is next to impossible to locate the correct information from matchroom at any given time.
Points based on total amount of money made in matchroom tournaments _is_ merit.
Who are they? I'd say there are far more players that'd play unbearably slow on the streamed table if there was no shot clock than those that wouldn't. Matchroom's vision is likely to have all tables on shot clocks. To get there they need people to watch. Nobody is watching most of these matches without a shot clock.