notice the table is China brand.
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You mean the "Strachan" cloth brand?
Upon further AI (Gemini) searching, seems like Xingpai, the Chinese snooker table manufacturer is indeed the official table provider for the Snooker World Championships and in fact most if not all of the World Snooker Tour. Although the table cloth is provided by the Strachan brand, the rest of the table is by Xingpai.
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Are there any Chinese manufacturers than can reduce the costs of making these snooker tables for popularizing the sport worldwide?
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Sure, everything becomes cheaper with higher scale but let's not get carried away here and pretend there's going to be or should be a craze for Snooker in China cus we should aim to dominate the sport or something. It's a small non-Olympic sport, one of many things that China wins at. Small countries that can hardly win at anything go crazy over a sport when they luck out and develop a champion at it. Not China. No big deal for us.
Snooker is the highest league of sports with a cue and balls... there are lower variants like billiards or pool etc. In order to play snooker, you first have to learn how to work with a cue, ball etc. Not so long ago, pool or billiard tables were part of every rural pub and that's how I started. Today it's concentrated more in clubs, people are slowly unlearning to meet in pubs (that's a pretty bad trend). I just remember to this day how the pub owner warned us about damaging the table cover, which beginners did when their cue slipped and tore it. The cover cost a lot of money.
Well, you could just as easily condemn chess etc. By the way, when I watch the Olympics, since the Olympics in Rome, I have the impression today that many sports are only and exclusively done by the participants
And some acrobatic sports are life-threatening. Well, anyone can play this old game with balls.Of course, congratulations on winning the title!
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Snooker is the highest league of sports with a cue and balls... there are lower variants like billiards or pool etc. In order to play snooker, you first have to learn how to work with a cue, ball etc. Not so long ago, pool or billiard tables were part of every rural pub and that's how I started. Today it's concentrated more in clubs, people are slowly unlearning to meet in pubs (that's a pretty bad trend). I just remember to this day how the pub owner warned us about damaging the table cover, which beginners did when their cue slipped and tore it. The cover cost a lot of money.
Well, you could just as easily condemn chess etc. By the way, when I watch the Olympics, since the Olympics in Rome, I have the impression today that many sports are only and exclusively done by the participants
Of course, congratulations on winning the title!
Calm down. It's just a hobby. People likes to watch or play snooker because it's fun and enjoyable. For China, there is no inherent need to promote it any further than that.
Olympic sports, on the other hand, provides a very good opportunity to test out human physical limits and how to further expand its horizons.
Staying with the topic of billiards, Chinese 8-Ball Pool is actually gaining in popularity in China now. It uses American style pool balls but played on a smaller snooker style table. This hybrid combines a quicker pool style game while maintaining snooker's higher demand for accuracy.
But I'm not angry, on the contrary, I'm having a good time. Unfortunately, today I can only watch billiards and sports on TV, I just go for walks in the nearby forest. But I like to enjoy that too. But that fight was about nerves. And thanks for the interesting information.
Today despite all those struggles, the Chinese Table Tennis team for both men and women still won the world championship in the end.
In addition the men's team won the Thomas Cup in badminton and the women won runner-up in the Uber Cup.
So looking back, it mostly worked out in the end. Turns out even if you do beat China a few times, getting them to stay down permanently is an entirely different thing. For example they lost to Korea 1-3 the first time but in the knockout stages, rekt Korea hard 3-0.
Combine that with winning the Snooker World Championship, its been pretty good week for China.
I want to point on in a that it seems Japanese media and a lot of people there don't seem to be much different in thinking or delusion compared to Jai Hinds. Prior to this they strongly believed China's men's team would lose in Table Tennis to Japan in the final because they don't have Fan Zendong anymore and therefore were inferior in overall strength to Japan. And then reality came and Japan got shreked hard 0-3 in the finals. Turns out because China struggled, they actually start to learn fast instead of being complacent like others who had it easy. When it came to the finals, the women's team which had it easier struggled a lot to beat Japan 3-2. Meanwhile the men's team which had a lot of struggles went 3-0 in the finals. I'm frankly disappointed that a developed nation like Japan still thinks this way. I expected them to be more rational. Were they always like this?
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Do you think Fan Zendong will come back for the Olympics?