The snooker competition of the Olympic Games is much larger than the Masters, the British Championship and the World Championships, because the Olympics are not like those top professional snooker events, which require the restriction of world points ranking, the Olympics is a national sport, as long as you can pass the qualifying round, then you can enter the main competition. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the qualifying tournament for Olympic snooker does not take place during the Olympic Games, which begin a year and a half before the start of the Olympic Games.

Like other competitions, snooker also has a standard result. This result means that the players who have won the championship and runner-up in the competition above the level of the continental championship, or the top 128 players in the world in snooker points can also automatically qualify for the competition.

Of course, this kind of continental tournament includes both professional and amateur events, and as long as an athlete can win the championship and runner-up in this level of competition, he can get a ticket to participate in the snooker competition at the Kaesong Olympics.

The Grandmaster had just won the Tiandu Masters Tournament after the New Year, so he was naturally eligible to participate in the snooker competition at the Kaesong Olympics.

It is precisely because the threshold of the Olympic snooker competition is much lower than that of athletics and swimming, so the number of snooker participants in each Olympic Games is as high as hundreds. Just like this Olympic Games, there are more than 160 players who come to participate in snooker competitions, whether professional or amateur.

Although the players who come to participate in the snooker competition of the Kaesong Olympics are a bit mixed, there are many professional and amateur players, but amateur players do not necessarily mean that they are not playing well.

In fact, in the snooker competition, even among amateur players, there are many hidden dragons and crouching tigers. It's like the snooker competition at the London Olympics in 08, and the one who finally won the gold medal in snooker at that Olympics was an amateur player from Canada.

The amateur won the gold medal in snooker at the London Olympics by beating a number of professional players, including the world's second, seventh and ninth ranked three.

An amateur player doesn't mean you're not skilled. Many amateur players with superb skills are no worse than professional players, but they may have a high-paying profession, or they may not be bad at money, so they have not embarked on a professional path. But when these professional players play, it's also quite violent.

One of the most famous examples of this is the Grandmaster.

In the Tiandu Masters after New Year's Day, he defeated many professional masters in the world in a row as an amateur player, and finally won the championship trophy of the Tiandu Masters.

In a Snooker Tiandu Masters, the grandmaster broke N records of bearded people who had been sealed for a long time, and created many unprecedented records, and I am afraid it is difficult to have a latecomer record, especially the one that is regarded by many fans as "the most classic shot in history", and the full score of 155 points in the real sense has been repeatedly watched by countless fans.

And now, with the power of the Snooker Tiandu Masters champion, the grandmaster has once again reached the snooker competition site of the Kaesong Olympics, who knows what kind of records and classics he will leave in this arena?

More than 160 players compete for the only Olympic snooker gold medal, and the fierce competition can be imagined, and so many players to participate in the snooker competition is destined to be a long-term single event.

In fact, the Olympic snooker competition has been one of the longest events in the previous Olympic Games, especially in recent decades. Based on the number of players participating in this year's competition, if you count from the first round until the final winner is determined, the final winner will need to play eight rounds.

The schedule of Olympic snooker is not the same as those of professional or even amateur tournaments.

Because the number of players participating in the Olympic snooker competition far exceeds that of any professional or amateur competition, in the Olympic snooker competition, no matter how many people participate, the first round is a fast best-of-nine system.

It's as if there are more than 160 players coming to participate this time, then the first round of the match will be eliminated through a best-of-nine knockout match, and half of the players will be eliminated directly, so that there are more than 80 players left. Then these more than 80 players played a round of nine-set best-of-five matches, and the winner directly entered the round of 64, and the loser selected a number of players according to the results to make up for the round of 64.

Once the top 64 is decided, the competition for 64 into 32 will begin. In a game like snooker, in the final semi-finals and finals, because the number of sets to be played is more than 25 sets, it takes two days to play both the semi-finals and the finals.

In this way, it takes about 14 to 16 days to determine the final champion, and the entire Olympic Games only lasts 18 days! Therefore, the Olympic snooker competition has always been a time-consuming event in all individual sports with the three major ball competitions.

Because of the large number of participants, this first round of eliminations will take four days.

The first knockout match that the grandmaster participated in was kicked off at 8 p.m. on the second day after the start of the snooker knockout round.

The grandmaster's opponent in the first round was an amateur from Southeast Asian Malaysia. This player won the runner-up in the Snooker Asian Amateur Championship at the end of last year.

In the face of such a player, the grandmaster really had no desire to fight, so it took only 40 minutes for the grandmaster to shave the Malaysian player's head with a clean and crisp 5:0, and successfully entered the next round.

It is worth mentioning that in these five sets of games, the grandmaster once again scored an amazing result of breaking 100 in a single stroke with five consecutive strokes, one of which was a 147 perfect score!

This perfect score is also the first perfect score in the snooker competition of the Kaesong Olympics.

The other players were a little dumbfounded after seeing that the Grandmaster, an "amateur" snooker player who had killed all sides at the beginning of the year, was still in excellent condition.

No matter who it is, they don't want to deal with the pervert of the Grandmaster. Not to mention playing ball with this guy, the most important thing is that it will also become the background board for this guy to break a series of records, which is the most uncomfortable!

It's like when fans now mention the incredible real 155 perfect score that the grandmaster once played, they will consciously or unconsciously bring a person's name, Clinton. Whoever asked the grandmaster to hit that 155 perfect score was against this Mr. Clinton, who would be the background board if he didn't become the background board?

In the previous life, the surname Clinton became famous all over the world because of the president of the United States, and in this world, there is no president named Clinton in the United States, but this still cannot prevent this "great" surname from becoming famous all over the world, because this surname has become a background board for a record that may not be broken in the next few decades......