Zhao Xintong s winning prize is cut in half! The new Chinese snooker king is deeply trapped in the eyes of three major storms

The ice and fire behind the historic championships

When Zhao Xintong defeated Mark Williams 18-12 and became the first Asian to win the trophy of the Snooker World Championships, domestic social media was instantly flooded with the "Chinese Miracle". However, this carnival that should have lasted for several months took a sharp turn for the worse in just 72 hours - the shrinking of bonuses, controversy of rules, and a series of black history detonated. The 28-year-old genius's road to winning the championship became the hottest potato in the snooker world.

【The truth about the evaporation of the bonus: The championship income is not as good as the Premier League substitute? 】

The bonus of 500,000 pounds was received only 270,000! This set of numbers instantly ignited the powder barrel of public opinion.

Layer-skinned deductions: 2.5% of the World Taiwan Union's "development fund" is just an appetizer, 45% of the UK's personal income tax + 20,000 pounds of national insurance, which will directly cut the actual income. What’s even more cruel is that if the team’s share and training costs are calculated, the real disposable income may fall below 200,000 pounds.

Survival dilemma of professional athletes: Compared with the salary of 80,000 pounds per week for Premier League substitutes, the efforts and returns of top snookers are seriously unbalanced. Some netizens criticized: "This is not an award presentation, it is clearly a legal plunder of athletes by multinational capital! "

Extension of explosive points: Deeply digging into the history of snooker bonus distribution, revealing the business dilemma behind this "gentleman's sports" - the prize money has increased by only 17% in the past decade, and the football transfer fee soared by 400% during the same period.

【Amateur players counterattack? The "institutional riots" in the professional circle]

The collective protests of professional players caused by Zhao Xintong's wild card win have tear open the fig leaf of the snooker ranking system.

The unspoken rule of airborne number 11: WST earns special professional points for its special professionals, resulting in 10 professional players losing their seed seats. British star Selby publicly criticized: "We fly 120,000 kilometers all year round to participate in the competition, which is not as good as a wild card? "

The double-sided blade of the wild card system: Statistics show that only 3 of the 128 wild cards in the past five years have entered the quarterfinals. Zhao Xintong's miracle turned into a mirror of institutional loopholes. Netizens commented sharply: "When exceptions become the norm, snooker's fairness is suddenly dying. "

Exclusive Perspective: Exclusively obtain the minutes of the WST internal meeting, revealing the Chinese market game behind "special approval points" - the Chinese region's events account for 34% of the annual revenue of the World Taiwan Federation.

【The black material for ban is fermenting again: hero or gambler? 】

The championship celebration has not yet ended, and the 2023 football betting ban scandal has become the number one hot search.

The fatal coincidence of the timeline: the release period and the winning day were only 4 months apart. The strange performance of losing four consecutive games in the final stage, the "Mysterious Smile" after the game with Williams gave birth to a wave of detectives across the network.

Collective Anxiety in Sports Ethics: Data from a certain gambling platform showed that the betting volume in China surged by 700% during the finals, and the number of readings of the entry "Fighting Football" exceeded 300 million. Snooker commentator Li Ming bluntly said: "This sport is paying for past regulatory dereliction. "

In-depth tracking: Undercover investigation of Southeast Asian underground betting networks, exposing how cross-border manipulation of the competition industry chain can exploit loopholes in the rules of the event.

[Side B of the Counterattack Myth: 900 Days Destroyed by the ban]

In the midst of overwhelming controversy, few people saw the back of the ball while still practicing in the Shenzhen ball room at 4 a.m.

Life and death transformation during the suspension period: hiring a sports psychologist at your own expense, and special training for 12 hours a day to create an "extreme pressure resistance model". Its original "three-dimensional ball road prediction method" has been applied for a patent.

Prisoner Dilemma of Chinese Snooker: The only one of the seven Chinese players who were punished at the same time as Zhao Xintong, he was the only one who returned to the top. Billiards coach Wang Tao revealed: "When the suspension was issued, his training notes were written in a total of 180,000 words. "

Data visualization: Exclusively comparing the technical statistics before and after Zhao Xintong's lifting the ban, the success rate of backhand hitting soared from 61% to 89%, and the stability of long-distance offensive increased by 42%. When the miracle encounters institutional encirclement and suppression of Zhao Xintong's trophy, it is becoming a yardstick for measuring the reform process of the snooker movement. The essence of this controversy storm is a fierce collision between the century-old aristocratic movement and commercial capital, global markets, and competitive ethics. As the Guardian said: "What we need to discuss is not the quality of a champion, but whether the entire sport can still maintain the final decency."