THE SCA'S 2009! (The Snooker Sceney Awards)

So after a long season, there has to be some awards and here they are! The Sca's! (What? Why don't you try to think of a name?)So here they are...

The Worst Haircut Award!!!

Winner: Martin Gould's Blond Spikes

Martin wasn't the most well known player at the Crucible this year so he probably wanted a bit of attention. His haircut, awful. Blond spikes looked totally wrong on him and he crashed out to Mark Allen.

The Forgot To Read The Script Award!!!

Winner: Barry Hawkins Beating Daniel Wells in World Championship Qualifiers

It was a meant to be a fairytale ending to Daniel Wells' season, he hadn't done much and going into the World Championships he needed to win two matches to stay on the Tour. He beat Li Hang in a dramatic 10-9 decider, but Ian Preece was next. Again, incredibly 10-9! He took on Marcus Campbell next, two wins away from the Crucible. Amazing 10-9 to Daniel! Surely Barry Hawkins was too tough though and Barry pulled ahead. But Daniel started an incredible comeback, 9-9! They shook hands for a decider, He's won 3 10-9's already, he's gonna do it again! Incredible stuff from the young star! He's gonna be great at the Crucible. Barry knocks in a long red and makes a break of 80.

Oh.

The Hey! Who Are You and Where did You Come From? Award!!!

Winner: Stuart Pettman

It was a huge surprise to see Steve Davis get knocked out in Qualifying by Stuart Pettman, but that was just the start of things for Stuart. He beat Mark Allen, Ali Carter who had just won the Welsh Open and Graeme Dott. He got thrashed by Ebdon though in the Semis but everyone was still going, Wow! Who is this guy? Turns out he's been on the Tour for more than 10 seasons!

Strange.

The Nicest to Me Snooker Player Award!!!

Winner: Ali Carter

To be fair this is only between the 2 players I've met: Ali Carter and Paul Davies. I played Paul in a match and if it was a movie, it would go like this...

Paul: Hi, What's Your Name?

Me: Sammy.

Paul: Wanna Break?

Me: (Over Confidently) Sure.

(I break off, and put the red in Baulk)

Paul: (after fluking a red) Haha, sorry.

Me: Haha. That's OK!

(Paul clears up with a break of 137)

Paul: Unlucky! Next!

Me: Wait, What!

Not great then, as for Ali, he gave me his Autograph during the Welsh Open.

The Michael Holt Performance of the Year Award!!!

Winner: Holty 10-7 Dominic Dale

Holt's best performance was a tough one to choose, as he had so many! (Not Sarcasm) But the Dale one tipped, 10-9 v Davis (Worlds), 5-0 v Morris (Bahrain), 5-1 v Allen (Grand Prix) and 5-3 against White (Grand Prix). Why, the importance, the showing to the public that he's not a choker (yeah Milkins, whatever...), the comeback, the tricky opponent.

Oh and he won...

The Fluke of the Year Award!!!

Winner: Shaun Murphy's Title-Winning Pink at the UK Champs

What a Final. 9-9. 1:00 a.m. Then Murphy took a pink to win, he missed! No he didn't! 2 Million people watched as the Pink pinged back into the middle pocket.

Sorry Fu. LOSER!

The Pointless Scheme of the Year Award!!!

Winner: Hotshots

Narrowly beating the 6-Red thingy. The Hotshots promised to be good, but all they did was a 15-second clip of a Trickshot competition on BBC News.

Okay?

The Worst Player of the Season Award!!!

Winner: Michael Georgiou

It was tough to decide between Georgiou and Doherty, but as Ken won 2 matches during the season, Michael wins. What happened? He promised loads, World Under-21 Champion means your probably good (Doherty won it though.), but Michael failed to live up to his reputation. He won 0 matches. He won 18 frames, Higgins won more in a match. His highest break was 61.

Will we see him back? Dunno.

The Best Website apart form Snooker Sceney Award!!!

Winner: Pro Snooker Blog

Keeping me entertained during the season was PSB (cool initials eh? Better than SS) A brilliant website with everything on it. The player profiles are my fave bit, they put World Snooker to shame!

Well Done Matt for an excellent Blog.