Snooker Best Shots From What Year? Recreated

Last week, I got 16 minutes into a video when I said this. You're going to play all the best shots of 2020 in a video at the end of the year. A lot of you thought that was wrong and I should have said the best shots of 2024. But is it a mistake if I still do the best shots of 2020 right now? And as usual, work out which of these shots is best by recreating all of them as accurately as possible and then playing them in the fewest possible attempts. And where better to start than this limited audience pandemic era august world championships with the shot of the world championships from Ronnie O'Sullivan as he pots this long red and stuns the cueball across the table for the black. This shot allowed him to beat Tepcharanu 10 frames to one and he'd win the world championship that year. I definitely wasn't confident with this pot but I've judged the backspin correctly and got a cross for the black. Well that's definitely a challenging start but of course none of these shots are going to be easy and this Mark Selby one could be even harder still as he pots the blue, spinning the cueball around two cushions and drops the white right in the middle of these two reds on the top cushion. This allows him to go on and win the frame at this visit taking a 2-1 lead against Barry Hawkins and then the match at the UK championships by six frames to three. This shot requires a precise amount of right hand side to produce the correct angle and for me it's a bit of a guess. My first attempt was incredibly close and I was a bit unlucky to get the double kiss and not finish in position but I'll need to do better than that and It's so awkward to get right I've been fairly happy with the majority of my attempts except the one I hit the green there although this looks better. I've got right in between the two of them and dropped perfectly in position. This was a really tough shot though. Judd Trump plays some great shots back in 2020 and this is one of them. Look how much he makes the cueball arc off the pink here as he plays the cueball off the bolt cushion and back down the table almost perfectly for the red by the black. Okay so I seem to have got both the line and the speed right on my first attempt I just haven't quite produced enough backspin and that's going to be challenging to hit it just as hard and spin the cueball about as much as I can which might explain why I keep missing it. I've got it though although I've struck the cueball unintentionally with a bit of right hand side and that's chucked the cueball back towards the yellow and even on this attempt I still haven't managed to keep the side off it which is going to stop it travelling down the table. This is better though and I think I've just about got far enough to be on a red. I don't think I'm going to be able to play that any better. It's a Stephen Maguire shot next against Neil Robertson but it's not the one for the masters mostly because even if I tried this shot forever I don't think I have the ability to recreate it. The shot I'm going to try comes from the tour championships at the end of the year where Stephen's leveling the game up at four frames all here and he pots this black into the middle pocket as an exhibition shot opening up the two reds on the top cushion. This looks quite good so can I play it? Well I've got the pot and the cannon but of course it doesn't count unless I can pot another red and as I can't see the one that's over the corner pocket I've had to play this awkward one into the middle. I wasn't expecting that to go in but as I've got that and the black I can definitely say we played this shot well enough and we can move on. Here we got Ronnie O'Sullivan playing a Judd Trump like positional shot at the Northern Ireland Open. He spins the cueball with left hand side to check it up off the bolt cushion and get it back down the table for the two reds. This is going to be an awkward one to play but Ronnie was able to make a 57 break take the frame and eventually take the match by four frames to nil. Once again this is a powerful shot that requires a lot of spin and I think it's these that I find hardest to line up correctly and pot the ball but at the same time I've got to get the cueball into the correct place and I can't find the right amount of backspin to get the cueball next to the brown. I think I've got it now I've missed the green on the way back possibly a little bit too much side but I'm in position. Anthony McGill has made it all the way through to the world championship semi-final which of course was in August this year where he faced Kyron Wilson in what was one of the most exciting matches and deciding frames I'd ever seen but the shot we're interested in comes from a few frames before where Anthony manages to pot the red and cannon the other red away from the black. Honestly I thought this was better than Ronnie's shot which got given shot at the championships but let's see if I'm actually able to play this one. And so far I've managed to get pretty close I potted the first two balls and got the cannon I was just a little bit unfortunate not to finish on the black but since then I can't get anywhere near the pocket I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing wrong here but I finally potted one again and once again I've been unlucky I think this just shows how accurate Anthony's shot was because it took me four decent attempts to get the correct cannon. At the UK championships Neil Robertson doubled the black that was on the top cushion all the way up into the yellow pocket to take a three frame to nil lead against Chris Wakelin and then just casually walks away like nothing's happened. This was held by the fact that this was one of those matches that didn't seem to have a crowd but it seemed kind of casual either way. I've avoided the double kiss with my second attempt and got it a lot quicker than expected pretty happy with that one. And up against that is Neil Robertson who's been a little bit unlucky to fall out of position against Mark Selby at the champion of champions he's already won the frame this time but this is an excellent shot to keep the break going he'd make a hundred break from here take a 5-4 lead and eventually win the match by six frames to five. I made the decision to play this shot left-handed as it's not too difficult to get to but it's a decision I'm now regretting because I can't play a stun shot and simply control the cue ball I should just be stunning the cue ball over to the other side of the black and even when I get close like this I can't hold it so I'm gonna have to do the best I can which is this and it's not great but which of these was the cheekiest double. In the blue corner we have Neil Robertson with his shot see there's a there's a blue in that corner never mind with his shot against Chris Wakeland and in the red corner we have Neil Robertson with his shot against Mark Selby both of these shots are good and both score four I'm giving the winner to his shot against Chris Wakeland because it was for the frame I can't play shots left-handed like that now this Judd Trump shot this Judd Trump shot's going to be difficult because he put so much back spin and right hand side on the cue ball here first to arc the white down the table and then to spin the cue ball around the green that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to play it even if I manage to do this I'm not sure I'm going to be able to hit it hard enough to get the cue ball back to the top cushion where I need to get it to get in position on the red Judd would eventually win this match by six frames to three so how am I doing well at this present moment not great because I'm not able to get enough right hand side power or back spin to get around the green and anywhere near back down the table for the top cushion in fact even if I get enough spin to get the cue ball around the green it doesn't look like it's going to have the pace to get much past the blue spot at the moment let alone back to the top cushion that once got around but you can see what I mean I'm nowhere near it and that means I'm going to have to play a shot just as well but even harder and I've finally got one that's close and the spin off the second cushion might just be enough here to get down for the red that was literally all of my strength I think there's going to be more calls for me to hit the gym again isn't there Jordan Brown I'm still not sure what to do with this microphone it looks less stupid than sticking it to my head with a magnet but I don't know either way Jordan Brown is playing Mark Selby at the world championships and he needs a snooker and he manages to get it off three cushions like this and drop the cue ball tight in behind the black this actually gets him the penalty points he needs and he ends up winning the frame against Mark Selby which is pretty good going I can't think of many players who'd be able to do that although it was Mark Selby who ended up winning the match by 10 frames to six and luckily I can remember how to play this shot from last time and know that it just needs a tiny trace of right hand side and not a lot that I first thought to get the cue ball down the table to the black and I've been getting fairly close every time there's just one or two I'm putting a little bit too much right hand side on the cue ball with this looks pretty good it's just gone to the left side of the black but it's a really good snooker from there ah now that's a Judd Trump shot again which is going to be a problem because this is a shot I couldn't play back in 2020 thankfully though because of technology and mostly the magic cue ball I should be able to have a good go at this one even though I've got to screw it back a long way from inside the jaws of the pocket and as you can see even when the red's this close it's still difficult to play it with this amount of power and backspin straight enough to pot the red it still requires a really accurate shot and I've got one right I just haven't quite got enough backspin on it to get top side of the blue I'm incredibly close with this and on my next shot I do get it right however I've gone the wrong side of the blue so I'm not sure which one to put in here but I'll go with this one before the next one let's just find Maker Jats or something I think that's right from Bake Eskibet Hungary which is there onto Ronnie O'Sullivan next who's sliding the red all the way down the cushion past the middle and into the yellow pocket this one's going to need to be really accurate and Ronnie used it to take a 2-1 lead against Dave Gilbert before narrowly winning the match by four frames to three my second attempt looked a little bit wide there but it's still dropped in this one's quite an impressive shot from Tepchaya who uses the brown to play a shot to nothing you see if he screws the cue ball back to where it is he's not going to leave a pot on so he pots the red in off the brown this is going to need an incredibly accurate hit and I'm not going to have very much room for error I think with this one I would have tempted the pot into the right center pocket but Tepchaya probably thought it was less risky playing it in this way as if you miss the red in the right center you could easily leave it on all that red that's near the corner pocket and would have felt this was a less risky option either way it requires the right contact off the brown if you hit it a little bit too thick it runs through the brown or too thin and it doesn't come away far enough I'm just glad I finally got it though ah this Joe Perry shot this is one I couldn't work out how to play at the time and had to play it with a ton of check side to make it work which isn't how the shot's supposed to go however I worked out I didn't have the cue ball in the right place when I tried it a few years ago and the cue ball needs to be roughly on the pink spot once I've changed that maybe it's going to work so this time I haven't played it with any side just top spin and the line's fairly good I've hit the wrong red but I've ended up in pretty decent position see these are the lengths I'll go to to correct a mistake in a previous video and if you want to vote for the winning shot in this video don't forget to use the link in the description and it is the best shots of 2024 we have coming up soon so if you want to see shots from previous videos have a look at these two so you can decide what's best and remember don't just watch play and make the commitment to becoming a better player by subscribing to the channel and visit the website see you later