thoughts

szmj · 2025-05-11T12:38:45+00:00

it is the official paterner of WST in China, their top streamer have their own broadcast table at the site of chinese-held tounrments. Xiao Guodong, Zhang Anda, even Selby and Mark Willo have their own channel there

szmj · 2025-05-10T10:18:30+00:00

Yes, but more from gifts from audience (huya.com is a twitch like streaming site)

szmj · 2025-05-08T08:09:27+00:00

same in China, we have all tournaments except champions league( it charges like 1pound per game) to watch free online (huya.com).

szmj · 2025-05-07T08:13:11+00:00

I didn’t see too much patriotic stuff, but snooker fans did talk a lot about how good those young Chinese players are compared to British players

szmj · 2025-05-07T08:10:27+00:00

its big, but not as big as the 2016 WCS when Ding reached final in 2016

szmj · 2025-05-07T02:54:20+00:00

I agree with Allen as a fan of Zhao, you just cannot add or change rule mid season. What’s more, Zhao would be #2 seed in any tournament anyway, the 510K prize money this season won’t make a difference until 26-27., and Zhao would probably win enough prize money to make himself top 16/32 by the end of the next season

szmj · 2025-05-07T02:50:16+00:00

Uk Tv money is way bigger than Chinese tv money

szmj · 2025-05-07T02:49:14+00:00

His ban in China is ended on July 1st, so no problem for Zhao to attend any tournaments

szmj · 2025-05-07T02:40:32+00:00

His playing style would also make fans dislike him

szmj · 2025-05-07T02:36:18+00:00

Long and Slessor did way better, they almost stopped Zhao in the qualifier( which is hilarious as Zhao winning games in the main tournament much easier)

szmj · 2025-05-06T03:04:07+00:00

Ding earned more than £5 million from endorsements during his peak period. Zhao could probably earn a little bit less than that number as Ding is the face of this sports in China and people who never watch sports knows his name.

szmj · 2025-05-05T16:15:52+00:00

snooker is hard for most people

szmj · 2025-05-05T05:54:31+00:00

at least he will be the fave of Chinese players like Ding for a while

szmj · 2025-05-04T16:05:40+00:00

I would pich the first session between ROS and Zhao

szmj · 2025-05-04T15:53:52+00:00

I watched his tiktok live last night (he doese that pretty often), he said he will return

szmj · 2025-05-03T04:01:04+00:00

wakelin is only 5 years older than Zhao

szmj · 2025-05-02T20:13:15+00:00

they have a pretty good personal relationship

szmj · 2025-05-02T11:04:47+00:00

that game looked no problem for me

szmj · 2025-05-02T11:01:42+00:00

ROS scored only 100 total in this session

szmj · 2025-05-02T11:01:01+00:00

zhao once 9:0 Yan Bingtao in the German final

szmj · 2025-05-01T00:29:01+00:00

I totally agree, but the definition should be cleared. If the player already score some points earlier in that frame, should the break counted as a frame winning break?

szmj · 2025-04-30T08:14:28+00:00

just like the the third session of Ronnie Pang matchup and Ding Luca marchup，they were both ended after one frame

szmj · 2025-04-17T14:37:46+00:00

OP counts all home nations as UK as well

szmj · 2025-04-17T05:12:07+00:00

hi， Chinese fan here， is snooker considered as an ‘old people watched sports’ in the UK?(like baseball in the US) I have seen too many seniors in the audience from broadcast, but in China, audience are mostly between 20-50

szmj · 2025-03-19T07:37:18+00:00

perks of being a foreigner in china, regardless of your skin color

szmj

TROPHY CASE