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If they think that it is all over at the Alexandra Palace now that the PDC World Darts Championship has resigned from the oche, they had better think again. The staff there might have just de-tacked the carpeting, gathered up the Himalayas of empty pint pots and filled the lost-property room with abandoned items of fancy dress (every year a few pantomime cow rear ends are left in the gents, at least among which remains occupied). But the king of sporting spectacle won't be abandoning the location soon. Really, the man behind the arrows claims things could get cluttered all over again in Ally Pally.
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This weekend Barry Hearn contributes into the arena where his tungsten tips have mastered with his most recent innovation: the World Championship of Ping Pong. In characteristic style, he insists that the occasion won't be silent. Via utilization of laser lighting, a thumping disco beat and -- we presume -- 8,000 inebriated fans chanting "duh-duh-duh duh duh der-duh-duh-duh" in the end of every rally, he plans to turn the once gentle dining-room pastime of ping pong into an all-action must-watch tv event on a par with the arrows.
"It's rock 'n' roll," he asserts of his variant of this game. "It is likely to be high-fives, knocking balls to the crowd, interaction between the players and the audience." In short: whiff whaff meets bish bash bosh.
But when the ball is in play, this won't be the game as we all recently saw it at the Olympics. Within an interesting reversion of this norm, the arch sporting moderniser is turning the clock back. Insisting that the profound padded bats flailed by Olympians have ruined the game for a spectacle, which makes it too fast for the spectator to follow along, Hearn will be supplying old fashioned paddles for his or her players. Even as he sends them into the arena clad in garish apparel with absurd nicknames embroidered on their tops, his players will probably be carrying bats of this kind last seen 30 decades ago at the base of the kit box at the regional youth club.
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It will be a bit like turning up at the Open to watch Rory McIlroy address the first tee with a hickory-shafted driver. Or viewing Andy Murray attempt to reunite Roger Federer's serve armed using a tiny, emaciated wooden-handled racket. Or sending Mario Balotelli out on to Manchester City's training ground to contend with the boss wearing ankle-high workman's boots.
Nevertheless the old-style gear, Hearn asserts, will usher in a new era for Boris Johnson's favourite pastime.
"I will make them superstars," he yells of the players. That sounds like a perfectly timed shot in the arm to get a sport which suffered grievously in the latest form of public subsidy. Except the man who broke darts in half by inventing his own tournament is not doing this from a warm-hearted awareness of altruism. Nor is he making a stand against technology out of any romantic insistence on the primacy of skill. He is doing it because he thinks it's going to look better on the telly. And thus will make him sufficient cash to buy out the planet's remaining stock of padded bats and send them to landfill.
In fact, whatever he may say about putting the game back to the public eye, the future wellbeing of ping pong doesn't concern Barry Hearn. As he's darts and snooker, his interest in it is restricted to getting its monopoly provider. If this event works, the English Ping pongAssociation will be compelled to absorb the Hearn manner, or, such as the British Darts Organisation, slowly wither in his shadow.
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Supposes the elimination of three decades of technical development will somehow make the game more saleable is, however, a big if. And things don't always turn out as Hearn predicts. Truly, if any whiff-whaffer at Ally Pally this weekend considers his involvement within their game will inevitably result in their elevation in the general awareness, they ought to remember these two words: Leyton and Orient.
=> The Best Ping Pong Paddles Set For Beginners
This weekend Barry Hearn contributes into the arena where his tungsten tips have mastered with his most recent innovation: the World Championship of Ping Pong. In characteristic style, he insists that the occasion won't be silent. Via utilization of laser lighting, a thumping disco beat and -- we presume -- 8,000 inebriated fans chanting "duh-duh-duh duh duh der-duh-duh-duh" in the end of every rally, he plans to turn the once gentle dining-room pastime of ping pong into an all-action must-watch tv event on a par with the arrows.
"It's rock 'n' roll," he asserts of his variant of this game. "It is likely to be high-fives, knocking balls to the crowd, interaction between the players and the audience." In short: whiff whaff meets bish bash bosh.
But when the ball is in play, this won't be the game as we all recently saw it at the Olympics. Within an interesting reversion of this norm, the arch sporting moderniser is turning the clock back. Insisting that the profound padded bats flailed by Olympians have ruined the game for a spectacle, which makes it too fast for the spectator to follow along, Hearn will be supplying old fashioned paddles for his or her players. Even as he sends them into the arena clad in garish apparel with absurd nicknames embroidered on their tops, his players will probably be carrying bats of this kind last seen 30 decades ago at the base of the kit box at the regional youth club.
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It will be a bit like turning up at the Open to watch Rory McIlroy address the first tee with a hickory-shafted driver. Or viewing Andy Murray attempt to reunite Roger Federer's serve armed using a tiny, emaciated wooden-handled racket. Or sending Mario Balotelli out on to Manchester City's training ground to contend with the boss wearing ankle-high workman's boots.
Nevertheless the old-style gear, Hearn asserts, will usher in a new era for Boris Johnson's favourite pastime.
"I will make them superstars," he yells of the players. That sounds like a perfectly timed shot in the arm to get a sport which suffered grievously in the latest form of public subsidy. Except the man who broke darts in half by inventing his own tournament is not doing this from a warm-hearted awareness of altruism. Nor is he making a stand against technology out of any romantic insistence on the primacy of skill. He is doing it because he thinks it's going to look better on the telly. And thus will make him sufficient cash to buy out the planet's remaining stock of padded bats and send them to landfill.
In fact, whatever he may say about putting the game back to the public eye, the future wellbeing of ping pong doesn't concern Barry Hearn. As he's darts and snooker, his interest in it is restricted to getting its monopoly provider. If this event works, the English Ping pongAssociation will be compelled to absorb the Hearn manner, or, such as the British Darts Organisation, slowly wither in his shadow.
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Supposes the elimination of three decades of technical development will somehow make the game more saleable is, however, a big if. And things don't always turn out as Hearn predicts. Truly, if any whiff-whaffer at Ally Pally this weekend considers his involvement within their game will inevitably result in their elevation in the general awareness, they ought to remember these two words: Leyton and Orient.
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