Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Cyril]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE

Who won the Masters, compiling a 131 total clearance in the final frame?

[dantuck_7]

Don't think we're going to get an answer on this one until April. I think the change in scheduling of round 1 matches, year to year, could have something to do with where the Chinese players are in the draw?

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE...

[The Statman]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT

Given the currrent rankings who is likely to play in the 1,000th match at the Crucible this season? (Assume as well match order is same as last time!)

I'm not sure that it's easy to predict. Although the defending champion always plays first morning and first night, in the last few years the schedule hasn't simply been replicated from the previous year's going by the position of the match in the draw.

For example, King v. Davis, which was second match down in the draw in 2010, was played in sessions 9 and 12 (Monday and Tuesday evening). In 2009 and 2008, second match in the draw was played on Sunday and Monday morning. In 2007 it was Sunday afternoon and Monday night.

In fact, the two sessions of a first-round match one year might not even correspond with a complete match another year. Again with Davis-King as an example, being sessions 9 and 12 on table 1 - in 2009 session 9 was the first session of Perry-Cope but session 12 was the final session of Ebdon-Bond.

I have tried before to make some logical reason for the non-continuation of the drawsheet but I cannot find one. I understand that, apart from the defending champion's match, the first-rounders schedule is drawn at random.

It isn't even worked out that players who will meet each other in the next round finish at a similar time to give them roughly the same time off between matches. (E.g., Allen-Ford this year was finished on the second morning whereas Day-Davis(M) was played on Tuesday and Wednesday).

Even so, I'll guess Mark J. Williams.

[crucible77]

Perrie Mans ?

[Barcicik]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT

Given the currrent rankings who is likely to play in the 1,000th match at the Crucible this season? (Assume as well match order is same as last time!)

Mark King.

[Cyril]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT

Given the currrent rankings who is likely to play in the 1,000th match at the Crucible this season? (Assume as well match order is same as last time!)

Perrie Mans ?

[erezpa]

i think we had 990 matches at the crucible (77-79: 15, 80-81: 23, 82-10: 31)
so we are looking for the tenth match 2011.
2010 the match started tenth was mark king vs. steve davis. mark king was seeded #16.
provisonal #16 at cut off 3 2010-11 at the moment is peter ebdon, if john higgins will be suspended it would be liang wenbo.
i think higgins should be allowed to play, so my answer is:

peter ebdon vs. qualifier

EDIT: Ryan Day instead of Peter Ebdon. Ebdon played and won at PTC 3 and passed Ryan Day, who won in the morning...

[dantuck_7]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT

Given the currrent rankings who is likely to play in the 1,000th match at the Crucible this season? (Assume as well match order is same as last time!)

[snoopy2608]

Jamie Cope is right

[lagermike]

Jamie Cope. 2007 UK championship at Telford....

[bongo]

that is what I meant yes

The first part is trying to work out what the question actually means, which we have done, now we only need to work out the answer!

[snoopy2608]

Yes, I think it is a matter of the last player to do this.

In that case, it must have been a while since Higgins lost his first round, hasn't he won all his first round matches in ranking events for about 2 seasons, or perhaps more?

that is what I meant yes

[bongo]

In other words (I think):

Where/when did John Higgins lose his opening match in a world ranking event, and who beat him!

Yes, I think it is a matter of the last player to do this.

In that case, it must have been a while since Higgins lost his first round, hasn't he won all his first round matches in ranking events for about 2 seasons, or perhaps more?

[The Statman]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN

Who, where and when was the last player to defeat John Higgins in Higgins first match in a world ranking event.

In other words (I think):

Where/when did John Higgins lose his opening match in a world ranking event, and who beat him!

[bongo]

ROUND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN

Who, where and when was the last player to defeat John Higgins in Higgins first match in a world ranking event.