Talk:2024 Tour Championship

Prize Money

Can we put the prize money by round and highest break prize on this page, please, as we do for other tournaments? 82.129.119.62 (talk) 06:57, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

The prize money has increased from last year's tournament but the exact amount hasn't been confirmed yet, we'll include that once it's announced! AmethystZhou (talk) 08:16, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Gary Wilson 105

@AmethystZhou: Neither WST nor SnookerInfo have recorded this break, which I am pretty sure is correct, and you have referred to it in the prose. Any idea why that might be?  Alan  (talk) 06:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

WST's live score sites are messing up again! All three matches that finished on Apr 2 only had partial scores for the last frame, even though the page says "match complete": Carter/Hawkins, Williams/Ford, and Wilson/Selby. All three references I used from WST, Eurosport, and BBC mention the 105 clearance in the last frame, though. Hopefully the live score pages fix themselves, otherwise we'll need to remove those references, or add some notes to explain the discrepancy. AmethystZhou (talk) 07:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Assuming they sort it out, the references will need to be re-archived.  Alan  (talk) 07:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

All scores are now correct apart from the Wilson/Selby match which still shows Wilson winning the 18th frame 52:30 with a 52 break. Having watched the ITV coverage on catch-up (https://www.itv.com/watch/snooker-tour-championship/2a6248/2a6248a0070), I can confirm that Wilson won the frame 105:30 with a 105 break.

I can also confirm that the WST scores for the final frames of the Carter/Hawkins and Williams/Ford matches are correct, after confirming on the ITV coverage. Steveflan (talk) 08:44, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for checking! AmethystZhou (talk) 08:51, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Further confirmation of Wilson's 105 break from the WST Twitter/X feed (https://twitter.com/wearewst/status/1775216205835456750?t=Eqgcg_mQkx0Db7_po1onMQ&s=19) Steveflan (talk) 08:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I've removed the note from the Carter/Hawkins match, since the archive agrees with the original. For the Williams/Ford match, I just tried to re-archive the page but it didn't work. I'll try again later.  Alan  (talk) 09:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Snookerinfo have now recorded the 105 century for Gary Wilson Steveflan (talk) 09:23, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I seem to be unable to re-archive the Williams/Ford match. It keeps capturing the wrong version with the incorrect final frame score. I'll maybe leave it for now and have another go later.  Alan  (talk) 10:35, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Done that now. Just the Wilson/Selby match to sort out.  Alan  (talk) 12:51, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

...and they have now screwed-up the Wilson/O'Sullivan match. No breaks at all.  Alan  (talk) 05:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

BBC red button

Results on BBC red button service say that Ford beat Williams 10-9. Is that an error? 90.242.168.216 (talk) 08:03, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes it is. Williams won the deciding frame. Nigej (talk) 08:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

In that case the BBC website also has the same error. Anyone know how we contact them to get it changed? 90.242.168.216 (talk) 10:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Have a look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact  Alan  (talk) 11:03, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Use cuetracker.net to find Head to Head Stats

CueTracker - Head-to-Head: Ronnie O'Sullivan Vs Ali Carter - Snooker Results & Statistics

Show 26 matches played, 23 wins for Ronnie and 3 for Carter. 86.154.20.1 (talk) 18:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Cuetracker is a blacklisted non-RS. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:48, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

The record is in regards to matches of 7 frames or longer. Carter's 2 extra wins in Cuetracker are in the Championship League (invitational event) which were best of 5 matches. O'Sullivans 4 extra wins in Cuetracker are 3 matches in the Championship League (invitational event) and another in the Premier League. For matches of 7 frames or longer Cuetracker matches the World Snooker Tour. I'm assuming the snooker.org 'error' was due to the Tour Championship match not being recorded on that page at the time - although it is there now and matches the 19-1 record for O'Sullivan in matches of 7 frames or longer. Steveflan (talk) 08:37, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

The 18-1 count from snooker.org does include the Tour Championship win. Sources like WST or Eurosport never clarifies exactly how they count the matches, but I assume it's best-of-7 or longer since the numbers (almost) match up. Still not sure where the discrepancy come from, so unfortunately we need to include a clarification every time their head-to-head comes up... AmethystZhou (talk) 08:51, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I can only assume that snooker.org are then excluding the walkover that O'Sullivan got in the 2021 Welsh Open against Carter, whereas the other sites must be including it. Otherwise, everything else matches. Steveflan (talk) 09:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

That must be it, but I think it's odd to count a walk-over as a win. AmethystZhou (talk) 09:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Seems to me that the above discussion shows why we shouldn't be including this sort of information. The phrase "professional matches" is so vague as to be almost completely useless. Nigej (talk) 09:08, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree. Perhaps it would be better to take all of this out.  Alan  (talk) 09:14, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Having looked into this quite a bit - it appears that WST (and WPBSA) only include matches that they show/record on their match centre. Unfortunately, despite several requests, neither can provide a full historical list of what matches are classed as 'professional', so we have no way of knowing which historical events should be included in figures like this. It's the same issue with counting centuries, in that we have no way of knowing which of the pre-1990(ish) tournaments are included in the figures and thus the media figures can't really be independently verified. Steveflan (talk) 09:18, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I totally agree, I just thinking using Cuetracker.net to fix that isn't the solution. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I tend to agree also. I'll remove the reference to their head-to-head from the prose. AmethystZhou (talk) 10:23, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

On the subject of CueTracker, it seems to have gone to sleep, and hasn't been updated since 29 March. Most unusual.  Alan  (talk) 10:53, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

It's woken up. Must have been on holiday.  Alan  (talk) 14:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

WST do it again

Yet another problem with the WST scoring site. Not only have they finished the final frame of the O'Sullivan/Wilson semi-final early (102:0 to O'Sullivan), but this time they've even managed to lose the half-century/century breaks! (https://www.wst.tv/match-centre/9ce47381-8793-4668-9e3e-b6a0bc927540) - at the time of this post anyway.

Luckily snooker.org post the frame scores of the semi-finals, with the breaks included (https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=1459&template=22&season=2023) Steveflan (talk) 21:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I suspect that this is to do with the way in which the referee works the hand-held scoring device. This device links to the scroring system which, in-turn, is used to update the website. Some referees will switch the thing off when the match is over before properly updating it. In this case the referee was Paul Collier. It would be interesting to know who refereed the other matches that are screwed-up.  Alan  (talk) 06:14, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

The official scoring site (for this season at least) is fast becoming a non-RS. There's only so much we can do to stop this happening. Whilst all RS have issues with this sort of thing, it is a constant barrage of wrong information. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:09, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Fortunately for these high-profile matches the articles usually mention the breaks, so technically we don't really need the WST live score references. AmethystZhou (talk) 16:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

That's a very good point. Shall I delete them all then? They're a pain to maintain anyway.  Alan  (talk) 16:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

...and they've even got the last frame of the final wrong.  Alan  (talk) 06:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)