The regular Chat Room announcement would be good although I am not sure exactly who has the rights to embed them other than nick.

My idea, and feel free to shoot it down, would be to make each of these events an official funkypool.com World Championship.

So, for example, this Sunday night would have seen the first event called

The funkypool.com World 8 Ball Championship.

The format would be different and longer to existing Marathon tournaments. In the long term these World Championship events would be recorded on player profiles, subject to nick having time to implement that. Until then, and in the short term, these events and their winners would be recorded in the relevant Forum thread.

In addition to these recorded achievements the winner would have the kudos of being called the World 8 Ball (or 9 Ball or UK 8) Champion until the next World Championship event comes round and takes place. In other words the winner would be World Champion in that game type for approximately three months at least. Other targets could then be to become a World Champion in all of the game types or try to be World Champion in all of the game types at the same time.

In the overall scheme of things I accept this is nothing spectacular but it would be easy to implement. Being called a current (or former) World Champion would be a bit of fun, something to aim for, something different and something to stimulate comment and friendly banter.

Big well done to dvz for winning this. He was always a contender

thx lads n yh turtle ta m8 very ul in some of those finishes think ya internet was slowing ya a bit ggs though m8