They do need a "go-to" guy or even a pairing like MR has. Wych has a good voice but I understand why people might find him annoying. I think the problem is that a lot of the pros who are good on the mic are still competing. Niels, for example, is fantastic but I doubt he's ready to give up competing and step inside the commentator's booth full-time. MR lucked out a bit with Karl and JJ (and vice versa).
Some (not all) of the commentating left something to be desired. They would do an aside talking about things totally foreign to the action on the table and not paying attention when a very good shot (offense or defense) was made. How many times do we need to hear how tough life is being a pro pool player or how hard it is to make a living? That refrain is getting old, especially now as the number of tournaments and the prize money is growing exponentially. I found myself wanting to jump back in the booth and help them out. Just saying...
I dont know what she said, but Klenti doesnt have a snooker background. He never played the game until his federation asked him to take part in their championship. He is a pool player that jumped into a snooker tournament. I’m hoping she didn’t spread an internet rumor.
You would have been a very good choice to do commentary at this event. You've got the chops to handle a major pro tournament!
If his Wiki is accurate, he won Albania's amateur snooker championship 3 times. Either the snooker scene in Albania is pretty weak or Kaci has incredible talent to pull that off with no real history of playing the game. Maybe it's a little of both?
That was my impression also listening to her. More like (my words): “by the way he plays snooker once in a while” rather than “he was a snooker player who switched to pool”.
I just want to be sure people don’t have this weird narrative. The guy is a poolplayer, and didn’t play snooker prior to playing the Albanian snooker championship . That should be the story since it’s the reality. It’s a great story for a pool player. But people want to say that his snooker is why he’s a good shotmaker. Totally false. He is for sure talented, and it’s not like Albania is a stronghold of top snooker talent.
You know how I feel about this, Jay. You and I are a pretty good team in these events!
What do these events have to do with anything? We know Eurotour has always paid nothing. Derby City is an independent event which, per Greg Sullivan, is primarily geared to amateurs. Turning Stone is a regional tour event. The International, though a fine event, is an independent event.
hi Stu
The posters I admire the most are the ones that are comfortable in disagreeing with me as often as they choose. I've learned so much from them over the years, and they often open my eyes to factors and issues that I should be considering.
I doubt we will see anyone like that moving forward, outside of Mosconi Cup antics. It seems the trend now is to be as robotic and emotionless as possible at the table outside of a few grimaces here and there.
Why have you turned so negative lately? You used to praise the quality of play at the DCC on 4-1/2 pockets. Now those pockets are “too loose”? If anything, the tables played so slow the quality of play in my opinion was timid. Tighter pockets on ‘slick’ but slow cloth makes matches hard to watch. How many shots were struck well, that in any other event position is rewarded perfectly. But these last two 10 ball events at the Rio had come up massively short?
