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Scottish Sun
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
‘I don't watch it' – Damon Heta slams Premier League Darts in brutal assessment and reveals two ways to improve it
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DAMON HETA has delivered a brutal assessment of the Premier League and admitted he doesn't even watch it. The Aussie believes the current format has become far too repetitive and has lost its excitement. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Damon Heta slammed the Premier League and admitted he doesn't even watch it 2 Heta claims the Premier League is too repetitive with Luke Humphries and Luke Littler always facing each other World No1 Luke Humphries and World Champion Luke Littler have faced off seven times in this year's campaign. But Heta hasn't tuned in once this season and says he prefers to spend his Thursday nights on the practice board instead. He told Sporting Life: 'No I don't watch it. I haven't watched it this year. 'I see the results obviously they come up on social media all the time. 'But I didn't watch it. I might have watched a few games last year. 'I think it's too much. It's the same people in the match ups and then I'm seeing them every week at darts. 'I'm on the dartboard practicing when they're playing the thing. 'I mean you are getting those prestigious games but all the time so you're flooding the good darts. CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS 'The Luke [Littler] vs Luke [Humphries] you're going to see them twenty plus times a year probably play each other. 'I'm not even sure how many times we have seen a Phil [Taylor] vs MvG [Michael van Gerwen] game. Fans sing along to Luke Littler's walk-on song as darts star shares footage from stage 'It just makes it more prestigious.' Aussie thrower Heta called for the return of relegation - a system scrapped after the 2021 season - to raise the stakes for struggling players. He revealed: 'I did like the relegation back in the day. I thought it was pretty good. 'Because the first half of the season they are playing to stay in it. 'And then the people probably towards the back end — when you've got a long season — if they're doing bad, you know they're probably not going to show up or put 100 percent in. 'B League' 'It's like, what are they playing for if they are not making the top four? 'I mean for £10,000 — but is that enough for them?' World Cup winner Heta even floated the idea of a potential 'B League' — giving more players a shot at proving themselves and earning promotion to the main Premier League stage. He added: 'Yeah I think that would be alright. Whether the B League plays behind closed doors to get to that stage. 'It gives that person — whoever wins the second league — that chance to prove themselves. 'I've done it for 17 weeks and now I've won it, then you get the promotion into the Premier League.'
The Irish Sun
21-05-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘I don't watch it' – Damon Heta slams Premier League Darts in brutal assessment and reveals two ways to improve it
DAMON HETA has delivered a brutal assessment of the Premier League and admitted he doesn't even watch it. The Aussie believes the current format has become far too repetitive and has lost its excitement. Advertisement 2 Damon Heta slammed the Premier League and admitted he doesn't even watch it 2 Heta claims the Premier League is too repetitive with Luke Humphries and Luke Littler always facing each other World No1 Luke Humphries and World Champion But He told Sporting Life: 'No I don't watch it. I haven't watched it this year. 'I see the results obviously they come up on social media all the time. Advertisement Read More on Darts 'But I didn't watch it. I might have watched a few games last year. 'I think it's too much. It's the same people in the match ups and then I'm seeing them every week at darts. 'I'm on the dartboard practicing when they're playing the thing. 'I mean you are getting those prestigious games but all the time so you're flooding the good darts. Advertisement Most read in Darts Exclusive CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS 'The Luke [Littler] vs Luke [ 'I'm not even sure how many times we have seen a Phil [Taylor] vs MvG [Michael van Gerwen] game. Fans sing along to Luke Littler's walk-on song as darts star shares footage from stage 'It just makes it more prestigious.' Advertisement Aussie thrower Heta called for the return of relegation - a system scrapped after the 2021 season - to raise the stakes for struggling players. He revealed: 'I did like the relegation back in the day. I thought it was pretty good. 'Because the first half of the season they are playing to stay in it. 'And then the people probably towards the back end — when you've got a long season — if they're doing bad, you know they're probably not going to show up or put 100 percent in. Advertisement 'B League' 'It's like, what are they playing for if they are not making the top four? 'I mean for £10,000 — but is that enough for them?' World Cup winner Heta even floated the idea of a potential 'B League' — giving more players a shot at proving themselves and earning promotion to the main Premier League stage. He added: 'Yeah I think that would be alright. Whether the B League plays behind closed doors to get to that stage. Advertisement 'It gives that person — whoever wins the second league — that chance to prove themselves. 'I've done it for 17 weeks and now I've won it, then you get the promotion into the Premier League.'
National Post
08-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
Cizzle Brands Announces Launch of CWENCH Hydration™ at Golf Town
Article content The launch of CWENCH Hydration™ at Golf Town, one of Canada's leading golf retailers, and at prestigious Canadian golf courses nationwide, along with its sponsorship of two prominent Canadian junior golf tours, positions the brand to be the premier sports drink for golfers in the country. Article content Article content TORONTO — Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the 'Company' or 'Cizzle Brands'), is pleased to announce that Golf Town, known as Canada's golf superstore, is now carrying three of the original flavours of CWENCH Hydration™ (Blue Raspberry, Rainbow Swirl, and Berry Crush) in the hydration mix format at all 47 of its retail store locations, as well as on its website. Article content Golf Town is the latest Canadian specialty sporting goods retailer to begin carrying CWENCH Hydration™, joining Sport Chek, Source for Sports, and Pro Hockey Life as part of the Company's strategic rollout of CWENCH in the brand's first year on the market in North America. Article content Golf Town is part of the Sporting Life group of companies, a proudly Canadian owned and operated organization which is also the parent entity of Team Town Sports. Golf Town was founded in 1999, and has become one of Canada's leading golf retailers. Cizzle Brands will be providing sales support for Golf Town store personnel to help golfers of all ages and at all levels to elevate their hydration game. Article content The placement of CWENCH Hydration™ with Golf Town adds to the brand's presence in Canadian golf, a footprint that Cizzle Brands has been actively building out through grassroots initiatives that include becoming the Official Hydration Drink of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour (where every junior golfer participating in the 90 events nationwide will be provided with CWENCH) and the title sponsor of the MJT CWENCH Classic in August, as well as becoming the Official Hydration Drink of the Durham Junior Golf Tour. Article content The Company is also pleased to announce that CWENCH Hydration™ will be available at prestigious golf courses and country clubs across Canada, including the Toronto Golf Club, Piper's Heath Golf Club, Hamilton Golf and Country Club, and Magna Golf Club. Article content Cizzle Brands' Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, 'The CWENCH Hydration™ brand has been on the market for less than a year, and we have already built up an impressive footprint in the professional, collegiate, amateur, and youth levels of several sports… including hockey, basketball, volleyball, and golf. Being a game that's typically played outdoors in the sun, golfers know how important it is to stay hydrated as a key factor in both their enjoyment and overall performance. We're excited about building the CWENCH brand in the world of golf. Between launching the product in one of Canada's leading golf retailers, sponsoring two very well-known junior golf tours, and making the product available at prestigious courses and country clubs, we've taken a big step forward in doing so.' Article content Cizzle Brands Corporation is a sports nutrition company that is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration™, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 3,000 locations in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle. Article content John Celenza, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Article content This news release contains 'forward-looking information' which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, such as, but not limited to: new products of the Company and potential sales and distribution opportunities. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as 'plans', 'expects', 'is expected', 'budget', 'scheduled', 'estimates', 'forecasts', 'intends', 'anticipates', or 'believes' or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results 'may', 'could', 'would', 'might' or 'will' be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Article content Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change. Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Article content
Wales Online
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Wales Online
Snooker stars call for World Championship rule change as Zhao Xintong wins title
Snooker stars call for World Championship rule change as Zhao Xintong wins title Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship, but several top stars believe the format of the tournament needs to be changed Zhao Xintong won his first world title on Monday (Image: Getty Images ) Snooker stars Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby, and Barry Hawkins are demanding a radical overhaul of the World Championship format in the wake of Zhao Xintong's groundbreaking victory. Following a 20-month suspension, the Chinese star made a remarkable comeback to become his country's first-ever world champion, defeating Mark Williams 18-12 in the final. He came through four rounds of qualifying just to secure a place in the first round, playing 111 frames in total, but Murphy believes that the initial stage of the tournament should be scrapped completely. In an interview with Sporting Life, Murphy said: "I don't think it's ideal as it is. I think in any setup where everyone doesn't start in the same round is totally wrong. I think it's totally weird. "A tournament where I start in the fourth or fifth round against players who have four or five rounds behind me, I think it's weird. I think it makes a bit of a mockery of the tour to be totally honest. We need events where players all start in the same round." Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson have spoken in light of Zhao Xintong's victory (Image: PA ) Article continues below Robertson echoed Murphy's sentiments, suggesting that matches should be shorter and criticising the three-day span of semi-final matches, reports the Mirror. "The best out of 25 frames is a great match to play actually, I do like that," he said. "But I think first two rounds out of 19 and best out of 25 for the rest of the event. It's straightforward, it shortens things, you are going to see a better standard of play. "You see a much better standard in the other events, like the Masters, in the World Championship it does drag on a bit. I would love to see it shortened. Playing a semi-final over three days is crazy, I am not engaged in that." Content cannot be displayed without consent Speaking about match lengths, Selby, known for his prowess in extended games, supports the existing structure but concedes that fewer frames might be more fan-friendly. He said: "In a way, I hope that they don't change. But from a viewing point I get it as well. You could easily have first round, first to 10, last 16, first to 10, and then go quarters, 13, semis, 13, and have the final first to 15. You could easily do that. "Because some of the rounds where it's the last 16 or even the semis, you are playing over three days, I mean that is a long slog." Zhao Xintong won the title for the first time this week but some leading players have now called for a rule change (Image: Getty ) When a player reaches the semi-finals, they have only played half of the frames necessary to win the title, despite beating three opponents already to get to the final four and single-table setup. Article continues below Hawkins echoed the sentiment that earlier rounds could be completed sooner, but hailed the World Championship as a special competition that separates the good from the great across multiple sessions. He said: 'It's such a long, drawn out tournament. I suppose some of the matches don't need to be as long as they are, but at the same time that is what makes it so different. There is nothing else like it."
Daily Mirror
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson call for snooker rule changes as Zhao Xintong wins Worlds
Zhao Xintong won the World Snooker Championship for the first time in his career on Monday night, but some of the game's biggest stars have called for changes to the tournament Snooker stars Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby, and Barry Hawkins are calling for a major shake-up of the World Championship format following Zhao Xintong's historic win. The Chinese star made a triumphant return from a 20-month suspension to become his country's first-ever world champion, beating Mark Williams 18-12 in the final. Zhao showed remarkable form in his first major long-format event since his ban, impressively knocking out Ronnie O'Sullivan in the semi-finals. Despite having to battle through four qualifying rounds, playing a whopping 111 frames to even reach the main draw, Murphy has voiced strong opinions against the current setup. Speaking to Sporting Life, he said: "I don't think it's ideal as it is. I think in any setup where everyone doesn't start in the same round is totally wrong. I think it's totally weird. "A tournament where I start in the fourth or fifth round against players who have four or five rounds behind me, I think it's weird. I think it makes a bit of a mockery of the tour to be totally honest. We need events where players all start in the same round. "There is no other way to shoehorn those matches into a two-table venue like the Crucible so I don't see it changing, but I think it's a really weird system now." Robertson joined the chorus of disapproval, suggesting that matches should be shorter and criticising the three-day span of semi-final matches, as per the Express. He said: "The best out of 25 frames is a great match to play actually, I do like that, but I think first two rounds out of 19 and best out of 25 for the rest of the event. It's straightforward, it shortens things, you are going to see a better standard of play. "You see a much better standard in the other events, like the Masters, in the World Championship it does drag on a bit. I would love to see it shortened. Playing a semi-final over three days is crazy, I am not engaged in that." Selby, who excels in longer matches, backs the current format, but acknowledged shortening the number of frames would be more appealing for spectators. "In a way, I hope that they don't change," he said. "But from a viewing point I get it as well. You could easily have first round, first to 10, last 16, first to 10, and then go quarters, 13, semis, 13, and have the final first to 15. You could easily do that. "Because some of the rounds where it's the last 16 or even the semis, you are playing over three days, I mean that is a long slog." When a player reaches the semi-finals, they have only played half of the frames necessary to win the title, despite beating three opponents already to get to the final four and single-table setup. Hawkins echoed the sentiment that earlier rounds could be completed sooner, but hailed the World Championship as a special competition that separates the good from the great across multiple sessions. He said: 'It's such a long, drawn out tournament. I suppose some of the matches don't need to be as long as they are, but at the same time that is what makes it so different. There is nothing elsse like it. 'Maybe the first couple of rounds, best of 19, maybe the second round doesn't need to be best of 25.'
