1316.75. And good entertainment. 
The topic of week 17 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
My hobby
Create a collage of several hobbies? Show my (Queen) CD collection? Photograph photography photographically? Hmm… or rather this: (click for large view)
The World Snooker Championship starts tomorrow – and even though I won’t be able to watch all 120+ hours Eurosport wants to broadcast live, I’m looking forward to the next 17 days, until the final on May 4 and 5.
» Times on Eurosport (German)
» Matches listed by day
» Drawsheet of all matches
Will John Higgins, “The Wizard of Wishaw” – in the official world ranking list (as of before the season) on number 1, in the provisional ranking (as of before this championship) down to 5 –, be able to defend his title in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield? Or will one of the other 15 Englishmen, 4 Scots, 3 Welshmen, 3 Northern Irishmen, 2 Irishmen, 4 Chinese and 1 Australian be victorious?
We shall see – it will certainly be entertaining to watch the 368 to 705 frames to be played in 31 matches with many top players and not least thanks to the highly valued German commentator Rolf Kalb.
» The Snookerblog (German) has a few players’ opinions before the start of the championship.
Youngest player (no, not the one on the photo) is the Chinese Liu Chuang, he turns 18 in June, is on the Main Tour since the start of this season and on no. 91 of the provisional ranking, oldest is Steve Davis (50), down from 15 to 27 in the provisional rankings. The average participant is born on 31 Aug 1976, thus over 31½ years old, and turned pro with about 18 years.
All 32 together combine 434 years of pro experience, 13.6 years in average; record holder is Steve Davis with 30 years. The average official world ranking position is 17.9*, provisional 18.6* or 20.9, respecively.
In the previous season, the average prize money a player won on official tournaments was £87,051* (ca. 109,000€) with a range of £6,830* to £288,500 (8,500€ to 360,000€), in the entire pro careers before the start of the season 2007/2008 £1,529,350* (ca. 1,900,000€) or £90,620* (113,000€) per year – record holder is Stephen Hendry with £8,257,210 (10,270,000€) in 23 years or £359,009 (446,000€) per year. Plus, of course, earnings from sponsors and other advertising.
* Excluding the newcomer Liu Chuang.
The statistics – no guarantee – are based on the data from the World Snooker Association.
Photo of the boy with mini billiards © Stuart Miles – Fotolia.com
My little poll about “Do you play computer/console games – and on what system?” here in the sidebar on the right has been closed – there were 47 participants, three of which chose multiple options, resulting in 51 total votes. This is the result:
For the time being, there will be no new poll, I didn’t have a viable idea, and the sidebar is a little less cluttered this way, too…
The topic of week 6 in Sari’s Projekt 52:
Song interpretation
At first, I had 1½ ideas for Queen songs, but somehow that wasn’t good yet… the alternative was found quickly, though, and this way yesterday’s football match Germany – Austria had something good in it after all:
My photo idea for the slightly ambiguous title “Big Balls” by AC/DC…
He’s got big balls
She’s got big balls
But we’ve got the biggest balls of them all