Power Snooker: Moving forward

The dust has settled on Saturday's brand new Power Snooker event.

After days of scouring blogs, messageboards and chatting face-to-face with snooker fans, the competition seems to have been greeted warmly by most.

Even people who were originally quite dubious of the format have admitted they were pleasantly surprised by its success.

Power Snooker may be here to stay but it's still far from perfect.

OnCue has come up with a few revisions, which could help to improve the competition moving forward:

• Scrap the century bonus points

Compiling a ton isn't that difficult in Power Snooker. With the balls always relatively well spread because of the break shot rules and the power ball activating double points, it's a walk in the park for these professionals. All these bonus points do is take the match away from the opponent and contribute to a less exciting conclusion.

•  Reduce the stop clock as the match wears on

I don't like time wasting in any sport. I can understand why people do it, and it's perfectly within the rules but it does deflect from a more exciting finish. Seeing Ali Carter do a lap of the table to run down the clock in his quarter-final match with Mark Selby brought this point home. Maybe in the last five or 10 minutes of a Power Snooker game, the shot clock could reduce to just 10 seconds to avoid this.

• Change the colour of the power ball

The power ball was quite difficult to see if you were sat in the upper stand at the IndigO2. It's marked only by some white lines, which were out of view if the ball sat near the cushion. Why not make it easier and change it to gold.

• Invite more players

There's no reason why this event has to be just a one-day competition. The players and fans both seemed to enjoy themselves, so why not invite 16 or even 32 players, and play it over a weekend like a PTC event.

•  Get rid of the troublemakers

It's great to see snooker played with crowd interaction and a vibrant atmosphere but the organisers should clamp down on players being subjected to personal abuse. Let's get the idiots kicked out.It's still snooker.

• Introduce a warm-up match

To help fans watching the format for the first time, get some younger or amateur players to play a frame to demonstrate the rules. It'll make sure the rules are understood before the real matches begin, but also get the crowd going.

• Do the draw live

The spectators would love it if a random draw took place on the day of the event.This isn't an essential change of course, but I think it would work really well nonetheless.