Snooker: Championship League Live - June 2020 from Milton Keynes

[Throbbing Angel]

Snooker's on

ITV4 - now - Championship League from Milton Keynes Watch ITV4 live 2:50 until 11pm tonight

Snooker's back in a socially distanced, no audience, don't share the rest/extensions kinda way.

Commentators are WFH. Should be good - whaddya reckon??

 

[DotCommunist]

The pissed shouty osullivan fans silenced by coronavirus

 

[Throbbing Angel]

And they're off - some sort of Round Robin format - best of 4 frames - so they can reduce exposure I s'pose

 

[Throbbing Angel]

paging
stavros blairsh two sheds Mumbles274

 

[two sheds]

Is good ta

So far I've detected a need for the commentators to be given 'polite applause' 'massive applause' and 'ooooo' buttons.

 

[stavros]

Yeah, I watched a bit of Trump-Slessor earlier. It's a more aggressive format, it seems.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Yeah, I watched a bit of Trump-Slessor earlier. It's a more aggressive format, it seems.

Seems it - I think it just feels like that because of the shorter matches and points instead of knockout element. I'm finding it quite odd tbh.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Don't like the commentators much - waffly. And the cameramen appear to be practising extreme social distancing. Main shot is miles away.

Not sure I'm into that. Good idea to do it, although I have never heard of 'best of 4' before.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Seems it - I think it just feels like that because of the shorter matches and points instead of knockout element. I'm finding it quite odd tbh.

Probably feels more like a practice session than a tournament.

 

[two sheds]

Am enjoying it, and Ken Doherty commentating now do love the relaxing Irish accent.

Eta: Brecel off to a bright start

 

[stavros]

Don't like the commentators much - waffly.

Better than Virgo, though, surely?

The bit I saw was, I think, Dave Hendon and Joe Perry. Perry put in a plug for his own matches.

 

[stavros]

I saw a very short section this evening, with Wilson at the table. As there are a lot of players I'm not wholly familiar with in this tournament, I assumed he was one of them. Then it went to a facial shot and I realised it was Kyren Wilson, who's gone extremely grey at the age of 28. Methinks he's struggling to source whatever he was using before.

 

[blairsh]

Ronnie O'Sullivan in a moustache phase.

It's made my week.

 

[two sheds]

I can't decide whether it's him on the right



or him on the left

 

[two sheds]

or possibly him on the left here

 

[stavros]

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